RWX: Scholarly Journals Covering DDI

The DDI Community has produced a rich store of DDI and metadata-related publications. Read-Write-Execute (RWX) will highlight some of these existing publications as well as new work as it is produced. The first column featured some of the foundations of DDI in scientific literature. The second revisited some of the top impact publications related to DDI from the last 20 years. And this one tries to identify those (mostly) scholarly journals, which seem to be interested in covering DDI topics.

If one looks for the search term “data documentation initiative” on Google Scholar, one gets 1260 results. Even if the bibliographic quality of the output is sometimes poor, as the entries are far away from being complete and well standardized, some journals stand out, which contain DDI topics more than incidentally. Here is a list sorted by the number of relevant articles:

• IASSIST Quarterly: http://www.iassistdata.org/iq

• D-Lib Magazine, The Magazine for Digital Library Research: https://doi.org/10.1045/dlib.magazine

• Social Science Computer Review: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ssc

• Historical Methods, A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vhim20/current

• Archival Science, International Journal on Recorded Information: https://link.springer.com/journal/10502

• Journal of Library Metadata: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjlm20/current

• Data Science Journal: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp, http://datascience.codata.org/ (newer, but without DDI)

• Ariadne, Web Magazine for Information Professionals: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

• International Journal of Digital Curation: http://www.ijdc.net/

• Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication: https://jlsc-pub.org/

If there is an article in the pipeline, it can make sense to take these journals into account.  Suggestions for journals, papers and topics for RWX are appreciated and can be sent to: Knut Wenzig, kwenzig@diw.de.