DDI 4 Q1 Development Draft - Comment and Review

This page provides coverage information for the DDI 4 Q1 2015 Development Draft Review plus links to the following:

Status report on each review document
Link to the review package
Link to the comment form
Link to the DDI 4 Drupal site
Link back to GENERAL REVIEW information and useful documents

Special Instructions for this review:

Read this document BEFORE reviewing

Library Packages and Functional Views in Release

Full Library Packages	Functional Views	Partial Library Packages (limited set of classes for review)
Agents	Agent	Data Capture : Capture, Response Domain, Instrument Component, Instruction, External Aid
Collections	Discovery	Processing : Command, Command File, Parameter, Structured Command
Complex Data Types
Conceptual
Core Process
Discovery
Identification
Primitives
Representations
Utility

Special Issues:

Willing to provide focused feedback on the documentation needs for DDI 4? Please contact Jon Johnson (J.Johnson@ioe.ac.uk) using the subject line “DDI-Lifecycle (MD) Documentation Comments”.

Status Report

Link to Review Package

ENTER A COMMENT

Follow the link "submit comment" to the issue tracking page for this release. Click on "CREATE" in the top banner and following the instructions.

IN THE SUMMERY LINE: Please enter the name of the document you are commenting on, a page number, and section and/or object name.

PLEASE submit a separate comment for each issue.

Please note your name and email at the beginning of the description

SUBMIT COMMENT

Link to Drupal development site

Library Package

In DDI 4, a group of classes within the Library related by a theme. The Class Library for DDI 4 encompasses the entire DDI 4.0 model, but without any specific schemas or vocabularies for Functional Views. Classes contain primitives and extended primitives and are the building blocks used to construct the Functional Views.

Functional View

In DDI 4, a functional view identifies a set of classes that are needed to perform a specific task. It primarily consists of a set of references to specific versions of classes. Functional views are the method used to restrict the portions of the model that are used, and as such they function very much like DDI profiles in DDI 3.*.

Useful background documents:

Need a quick UML tutorial? See the Domain Model Diagram for some basics: http://www.uml-diagrams.org/class-diagrams-overview.html.
Want a more descriptive introduction? See UML 2 class Diagrams: An Agile Introduction: http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/classDiagram.htm

Contact Information:

For questions regarding the review process please contact the Technical Committee list ddi-srg@icpsr.umich.edu or the Technical Committee Chair, Wendy Thomas wlt@umn.edu