DDI Publications

Below are DDI-related publications, presentations, posters, working papers, and workshops. If you know about content not already listed, please see our Add Publications page.

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DDI at the Swedish National Data Service
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Data Service Center for Business and Organizational Data – Specifics concerning DDI dealing with organizational data
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The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) XML Standard: Using DDI 3 to Support Production, Management, Dissemination, and Preservation Systems for Data in the Social Sciences and Economics
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The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Standard: Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data — Best Practices

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Introduction to the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) Standard
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DDI4RDC: Metadata driven framework for the Canada Research Data Centre Network
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Questionnaire Management and DDI: The QDDS Case

This paper describes the Questionnaire Development Documentation project, a system created by GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences to permit permanent electronic documentation of questionnaire development and the final state of the...
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DDI 3: Extracting Metadata from the Data Analysis Workflow
Hoyle L, Wackerow J, Hopt O.  2010.  DDI 3: Extracting Metadata from the Data Analysis Workflow. DDI Working Paper Series (Use Cases).

A few tools have been developed to extract metadata from SPSS, Stata, and SAS datasets (see http://tools.ddialliance.org/?lvl1=library ). Each of these...
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Using DDI 3 for Comparison
Ionescu S, Hoyle L, Kleemola M, Mechtel M, Olsson O, Thomas WThomas.  2010.  Using DDI 3 for Comparison. DDI Working Paper Series (Use Cases).

This paper explores how archives can use DDI 3 to support and document data comparison and harmonization.
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DDI 3 Repository-Based Data Management with Colectica