DDI Beta-Test

A beta-test of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Document Type Definition (DTD) was conducted during March-August 1999. The test was funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation. A list of test sites, contact persons, and interim and final reports appears below.

Note that the XML files below may not display properly. ICPSR is currently building XSL stylesheets to render them in HTML.

Centre for Comparative European Survey Data (CCESD)

London Guildhall University
133 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QA
England

Contact:
Richard Topf
topf@lgu.ac.uk
Interim Report (PDF 8K)
Second Interim Report and XML Sample (Zip file 100K)

Danish Data Archive

Islandsgade 10
DK-5000
Odense C
Denmark

Contact:
Nanna Floor Clausen
nannafloor@hotmail.com
Interim Report (PDF 12K)
Final Report (PDF 25K)

The Data Archive

University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex C04 3SQ
England

Contact:
Ken Miller
millk@essex.ac.uk
Interim Report (PDF 12K)
Final Report (PDF 46K)

Harvard-MIT Data Center

Littauer Center North Yard M-34
Cambridge, MA 02138

Contact:
Michael McDonald
Micah Altman (Micah_Altman@harvard.edu)
Interim Report (PDF 16K)
Final Report (PDF 21K)
PERL code and documentation

NIWI-Steinmetz Archive

P.O. Box 95110
1090 HC Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Contact:
Repke de Vries
repke.de.vries@niwi.knaw.nl
Interim Report (PDF 12K)
Final Report (PDF 142)
Source Code (FTP)

Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)

Hans Holmboesgt 22
N-5007 Bergen
Norway

Contact:
Jostein Ryssevik
Jostein.Ryssevik@nsd.uib.no
Interim Report (PDF 16K)
Final Report (PDF 257K)

University of California, Berkeley

Survey Research Center
Berkeley, CA 94720

Contacts:
Juteh Theresa Cheng
Jeff Royal
yuteh@hobbes.berkeley.edu
jeff@csm.berkeley.edu
Interim Report
Final Report (HTML)
Examples on Website

University of Giessen

DFG Dokumentationsberatung LLP
Arbeits-, Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik
Karl-Glückner-Str. 21b
35394 Giessen
Germany

Contact:
Karsten D. Wolf
karsten.wolf@sowi.uni-bamberg.de
Interim Report (PDF 28K)
Final Report (PDF 346K)
Codebook Entry Website

University of Ljubljana

Social Science Data Archive
Kardeljeva pl. 5
SI - 1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Contact:
Janez Stebe
janez.stebe@guest.arnes.si
Interim Report (PDF 12K)
Final Report (PDF 157K)
XML Samples (Zip file 367K)
XML Codebook Editor Prototype (Zip file 515K)

University of Michigan

Harlan Hatcher Library
209 Hatcher North 1205

Contacts:
Bonnie Dede
bdede@umich.edu
JoAnn Dionne
jdionne@umich.edu
Lynn Marko
lfmarko@umich.edu
Patricia Dragon
pdragon@umich.edu
Interim Report
Final Report (PDF 138K)
Sample SGML Document Descriptions, Sample SGML Codebook, Source Codebook (Zip file 55K)

University of Minnesota

Machine Readable Data Center
2 Wilson Library
309 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Contact:
Wendy Treadwell
Wendy.L.Treadwell-1@tc.umn.edu
Interim Report (PDF 8K)
Final Report (PDF 45K)
Codebooks (Zip file 384K)
Questionnaires (Zip file 6.9MB)

University of Warsaw

Institute for Social Studies
Stawki 5/7
00-183, Warsaw
Poland

Contacts:
Pawel Morawski and Jacek Szamrej
pawm@samba.iss.uw.edu.pl
Interim Report
Final Report (PDF 199K)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Data and Program Library Service
1180 Observatory Dr.
Room 3308 Social Science Bldg.
Madison, WI 53706

Contact:
Cindy Severt
severt@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
Interim Report (PDF 8K)
Final Report (PPT 109K, PDF 121K)
XML Sample Codebooks, XSL Stylesheet for WLS, dataDscr.dtd, Tables.dtd (Zip file 26K)

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