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.
This best practice covers the process of developing agreements and guidelines for implementation and governance of DDI as a metadata scheme for a community. The best practice recognizes that different...
One of the objectives in creating DDI 3.0 was full machine-actionability. This requires strict versioning of objects so that users understand the change history of the resources they are using. This Best...
The benefits of using controlled vocabularies, which offer consistency, precision, and interoperability, within DDI metadata creation are the primary underlying principles behind this best practice.
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international effort to establish an XML-based metadata standard for datasets in the social and...