Simple Codebook Meeting
April 27, 2015Present: Michelle Edwards, Dan Gillman, Oliver Hopt, Steve McEachern, Mary Vardigan The group went back to the mapping between DDI Codebook and what is in DDI4. In terms of Access Conditions, there is an Access module in Discovery, where it is streamlined. It looks as if availability and use statements are not included; everything is structured string. We might look at SAML or another controlled vocabulary for access control like XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language). The issue is whether the outside source maintains previous versions, which we don't have control over. In terms of Other Material, this was all found in DDI4 except for the Other Material table. This was part of DDI Codebook to mark up a table for presentation. In terms of VarDoc version, none of that was in DDI4. In DDI4 versioning is done at a low level, so this is taken care of at a level of the model that is not about particular content but about everything – Identifiable and Annotated Identifiable. There is an ID and a version. The question is that in Codebook the description is applied against Variable; in DDI4 identification applies broadly. The group traced identification through the DDI4 model and looked at Collections and Members. Version Type in DDI Codebook does not seem to be covered, but no one is using this. Type seems no longer relevant and related to documents rather than to elements. People who understand this element from the old way of thinking have to know that the idea of a version is being expanded. We need to table this for now but are leaning toward deprecating this element. Coding Instructions probably maps to Fieldwork and Methodology, which we don't have yet in DDI4. |