For DDI Lifecycle 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3, the published package was produced using the following steps.
For versions of DDI Lifecycle after 3.3, the following process can be used. This system is already in production, but the outputs are not yet used for publication.
Decisions to make for the future production framework:
Controlled vocabularies will be managed through the CESSDA CV Service (https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/#!discover). The DDI Alliance has its own "agency" there and can register persons as editors.
All DDI vocabularies are managed by this agency and can therefore just be published by designated persons.
The CESSDA CV Service offers functionality for creating, editing and versioning/pubishing of vocabularies. It also implements a full translation framework.
Applications could make use of the REST interface for each vocabulary.
The publication formats for DDI Controlled Vocabularies will be:
The feature for information push on the publication of a new version of a CV is not yet implemented in the CESSDA CV Service. Therefore the DDI CV working group has to perform some manual tasks for bringing a published version of a CV onto the DDI Aliance website. The plan is to minimize the amount of steps. Currently this will include:
The steps implemented in the command line tool are: