How to review the Q1 Development Draft (download PDF version)

General Instructions:

The intent of this review is to check in with DDI users on our progress to date. DDI 4 involves a new model driven perspective, a more production focused development structure (i.e. bindings and documentation are produced from the model), a focused set of products, and greater ease of use. As such we need feed-back on what we are doing (the model and documentation) and how we are doing it (the approach).
This first release is limited and not intended to be used as a basis for implementation. It is a Development Draft of a core portion of our work to date. Therefore it does not cover more than a subset of classes that are used in many applications of DDI: how multiple languages, dates, and commands are captured; how classes are identified and annotated; how agents (people, organizations, and machines) are described; how basic structures like Concepts, Universes, and Representations build toward describing specific variables; and how to create structured collections or groups of similar classes. Two Functional Views using only classes found in the Q1 release show what a DDI user would see if selecting a Functional View to meet a specific need. For example: Agent View is intended to be used to manage a set of organizations, individual, machines, and their relationships to each other. Discovery View manages a set of basic bibliographic information.
We have not published the bindings (XML Schema and RDF/OWL Vocabularies) in this release. These will be released at a later date and we will ask for comment on them at that point.

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