Simple Codebook Meeting

March 16, 2015

Present: Dan Gillman, Oliver Hopt, Larry Hoyle, Mary Vardigan

The agenda for the meeting was to determine if all elements in the CESSDA profile/Nesstar profile are present in DDI 4. Larry Hoyle had created a spreadsheet of DDI Lite and the list of elements from CESSDA profiles. There seems to be a wide variety of the selection of the elements and attributes in the repositories using DDI Lite. The Nesstar Webview comes as the base. The group compared elements used across different repositories.

The task was to find out which elements are in DDI4, so the group decided to divide up the list of 200+ elements. There appears not to be any DDI4 elements about the metadata itself, the DDI document. It basically parallels the study description information. This may not be relevant for DDI4. Perhaps the Data Citation group should think about this. This is often the archive's intellectual property, so some representation of it will be of interest to most of the archives. Citing the user guide or documentation is a common practice.

DDI Codebook has some elements of description that DDI4 has not been talking about. We need to bring forth something to the Advisory Group about this – this is an issue that we need to discuss. In DDI Lifecycle there is the corresponding instance with a citation on it. There is no DDI4 instance because instance is a root element for documents in general.