Papers, Presentations, and Reports
Articles and Papers
Altman, M., et al. "A Digital Library for the Dissemination and
Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research." Social
Science Computer Review 19, No. 4 (winter 2001): 458-470.
Blank, Grant, and Karsten B. Rasmussen. "The Data Documentation
Initiative: The Value and Significance of a Worldwide Standard."
Social Science Computer Review 22, No. 3 (August 2004):
307-318.
Hoyle, Larry, and Wackerow, Joachim. "Exporting SAS Datasets to DDI 3
XML files Data, metadata, and more metadata." SAS Global Forum 2008 Paper 137, San Antonio Texas, March 2008. (PDF 101K)
Hoyle, Larry. "Using XML Mapper and XMLMAP to Read Data Documented by
Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Files." SAS Users Group
International Conference 30 (SUGI30), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April
2005.
Leighton, Vernon. "Developing a New Data Archive in a Time of
Maturing Standards." IASSIST Quarterly 26, No. 1 (Spring
2002): 5-9.
Martinez, Luis. "The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and
Institutional Repositories." EDINA, Edinburgh University, DISC-UK
DataShare Project. December 2007.
Miller, Kenneth, and Mary Vardigan. "How Initiative Benefits the Research Community - the Data Documentation Initiative." Paper presented at the First International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, June 2005. (PDF 102K)
Norwegian Social Science Data Services. "Providing Global Access to
Distributed Data Through Metadata Standardisation: The Parallel
Stories of NESSTAR and the DDI." Working Paper No. 10, UN/ECE Work
Session on Statistical Metadata, Geneva, Switzerland, September 22-24,
1999.
Ryssevik, Jostein. "Bazaar Style Metadata in the Age of the Web -
An 'Open Source' Approach To Metadata Development." Working Paper
No. 4, UN/ECE Work Session on Statistical Metadata, Washington, DC,
November 28-30, 2000. (PDF 54K)
Ryssevik, Jostein. "The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
Metadata Specification." (PDF
529K)
Ryssevik, J. and S. Musgrave. "The Social Science Dream Machine."
Social Science Computer Review 19, No. 2 (Summer 2001):
163-174.
Presentations
Block, William, et al. "Making the IPUMS DDI Compliant."
Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of
Social Science Information Services & Technology, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, May 2001.
Bohr, Jeanette, Andrea Janssen, and Joachim Wackerow. "Problems of Comparability in the German Microcensus Over Time and the New DDI Version 3.0 ."
Part of "DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0," Chair Ron Nakao.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Boyko, Ernie. "DDI: Does It Have a Life Beyond IASSIST?"
Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Bradley, Bill. "Leveraging the Gains: The WebDAIS-NESSTAR
Project." Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001. (PDF 1.4MB, PPT 936K)
Bradley, Bill. "Whither DDI -- Situation and Prospects in Canada".
Part of session "Prospects for DDI -- What the Evidence and Experience Tell Us," Chair Ron Nakao.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Capps, Cavan. "DDI as a Communication Protocol." Presented at the
annual meeting of the International Association of Social Science
Information Services and Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May
2001.
Corti, Louise. "A
DTD for Qualitative Data: Extending the DDI to Mark-up the Content of
Non-numeric Data." Part of session on "DDI in Practice," Chair
Jostein Ryssevik. Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2004.
Cruse, Patricia, et al. "Using DDI Extensions as Intermediary for
Data Storage and Data Display." Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001.
Decuypere, Mary. "An Update on DDI Working Groups at Statistics Canada." Part of session on "DDI in Canada -- Where Are We At?", Chair Michel Seguin.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Dinkelmann, Karl. "DDI Version 3 and Instrument Documentation ."
Part of "DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0," Chair Ron Nakao.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Edwards, Michelle. "Ontario Universities Moving Forward with DDI."
Part of session on "DDI in Canada -- Where Are We At?", Chair Michel Seguin.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Eisenhauer Smith, Janet. "The
Metadata Toolbox: A User's Perspective on DDI". Part of session
"Putting DDI on the Road: What's in the Metadata Toolbox?" Chair:
Bill Block. Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Storrs, Connecticut, June 2002.
Goebel, Jan, and Joachim Wackerow. "New Frontiers: Can Panel Studies Go DDI? First Experiences in Documenting the German Socio-Economic Panel Study With
DDI 3.0". Part of session "Prospects for DDI -- What the Evidence and Experience Tell Us," Chair Ron Nakao.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Green, Ann. "Data Documentation Initiative, DDI." (PDF) Presented at the DataShare project meeting, University of Edinburgh, Feb 5-6, 2008.
Green, Ann, and Julie Linden. "Economic Growth Center Digital Library: Creating Access to Statistical Sources Not Born Digital." Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology, May 2004. (PPT 1.2MB)
Gregory, Arofan. "DDI 3."
Part of session "DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0 (Part 2)," Chair Pascal Heus.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Haarman, Mike. "DDI Tools: The MN Perspective." Part of session "Putting DDI on the Road: What's in the Metadata Toolbox?"
Chair Bill Block. Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Storrs, Connecticut, June 2002.
Hadorn, Reto. "Behind the Curtains of DDI, Why Not a Relational
Metadatabase?" Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001.
Hadorn, Reto. "Metadata by Design and Fielded Metadata: The Poles of a Space in Which Data Processing Takes Place ."
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Hoyle, Larry, and Wackerow, Joachim. "Exporting SAS Datasets to DDI 3 XML files Data, metadata, and more metadata." Presented at the SAS Global Forum 2008, San Antonio Texas, March 2008. (PDF 1.2M)
Hu, Alfred Ko-wei. "Developing the DDI and Its Applications in Taiwan." Part of session on "DDI in Practice," Chair Jostein Ryssevik.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2004.
Humphrey, Chuck. "Capitalising on Metadata: Tool Development Plans."
Part of session on "DDI in Canada -- Where Are We At?", Chair Michel Seguin.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Kaper, Emiel. "Object Oriented DDI." Presented at the annual
meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 17, 2001. (PDF 138K, PPT 336K)
Kaper, Emiel. "Tabular Data in DDI 1.1." Presented at the annual
meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 17, 2001. (PDF 321K, PPT 74K)
Kuula, Arja. "The
DDI and Qualitative Data." Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001.
Linden, Julie, Ann Green, and Steve Citron-Pousty. "StatCat: Building a Statistical Data Finder." Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology, Storrs, Connecticut, June 2002. (PPT 547K)
Linden, Julie. "FGDC, Meet the DDI: Adding Geospatial Metadata to a Numeric Data Catalog." Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Ottawa, Canada, May 2003.
Marker, Hans Jorgen. "DDI and data." Presented
at the annual meeting of the International Association of Social
Science Information Services and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May
2005.
Marker, Hans Jorgen. "DDI and data."
Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Maynard, Marc. "Implementation of the DDI at the Roper Center." Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Ottawa, Canada, May 2003.
Miller, Ken. "1-2-3, That's How Elementary It's Gotta Be - Managing DDI." Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Ottawa, Canada, May 2003.
Miller, Kenneth. "No Longer Lost in Translation."
Part of session on "DDI in Practice," Chair Jostein Ryssevik.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2004.
Miller, Ken. "Three Out of Two People Want to Know: The Issues Behind Conversion to DDI 3."
Part of session "DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0 (Part 2)," Chair Pascal Heus.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Miller, Kenneth, and Pasqualino Titto Assini. "The XML Files: Developing Data UFOs." Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1999.
Nakao, Ron. "The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI): A Metadata
Specification for Social Science Data." Presented at the Fall Forum of
the Digital Library Federation, November 7, 2007, Philadelphia, PA.
Piazza, Tom. "DDI Files from New Data Collections." Part of session "Putting DDI on the Road: What's in the Metadata Toolbox?"
Chair Bill Block. Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Storrs, Connecticut, June 2002.
Piazza, Thomas. "Where Will DDI-Documented Data Come From?" Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology, Chicago, Illinois, May 2000.
Ryssevik, Jostein. "Bring your Tables to the Web." Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Ryssevik, Jostein. "DDI-Publishing
Made Easy -- The Nesstar Way." Part of session "Putting DDI on the
Road: What's in the Metadata Toolbox?" Chair Bill Block. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of
Social Science Information Services and Technology, Storrs,
Connecticut, June 2002.
Ryssevik, Jostein (presented by Chris Nelson). "DDI 3." Part of session "DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0 (Part 2)," Chair Pascal Heus.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Ryssevik, Jostein, and Simon Musgrave. "From Data Graveyards to Knowledge
Greenhouses." Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001.
Southall, Humphrey. "Cataloguing Individual Data Values
within an On-line Visualisation System Using the DDI Aggregate Data
Extension: The New Great Britain Historical GIS."
Part of session on "DDI in Practice," Chair Jostein Ryssevik.
Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of
Social Science Information Services and Technology, Madison,
Wisconsin, May 2004.
Southall, Humphrey. "Strengths and Weaknesses of the DDI Aggregate Data Extension in Directly Driving an On-Line Data Visualisation System."
Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Stratford, Juri, and Ilona Einowski.
"Applications in the Real World - The Counting California Experience
with the DDI." Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001.
Thomas, Wendy. "The DDI: Striking a Balance to Meet the Needs of
the Data Community." Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001. (PDF 19K, PPT 27K)
Thomas, Wendy L. "Describing Aggregate Data: The Enigma
Variations." Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 18, 2001. (PDF 71K, PPT 92K)
Thomas, Wendy. "Locating the Geographic Center of DDI 3.0 ."
Part of "DDI for the Next Decade: Toward Version 3.0," Chair Ron Nakao.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Thomas, Wendy L., and William C. Block. "An Introduction to the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)." Presented at the ICPSR Biennial Meeting of Official Representatives, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 26, 2001. (PDF 1163K, PPT 300K)
Thomas, Wendy, Arofan Gregory, and Tom Piazza. "Inside View of DDI Version 3.0: Structural Reform Group
Report". Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Thomas, Wendy, Arofan Gregory, Tom Piazza. "Structural
Reform Group Report." Part of a session on "An Inside View of DDI
Version 3.0," Chair Jostein Ryssevik. Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Thomas, Wendy, Arofan Gregory, Joachim Wackerow, and Meinhard Moschner.
"Presenting the New DDI 3.0: What Can It Do For You?". Panel discussion,
Chair Mary Vardigan.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Vardigan, Mary. "The Data Documentation Initiative: A Bridge Between Data Producers and Data Users." Presented at the FedCASIC meeting, March 7, 2007, Washington, DC.
Vardigan, Mary. "The Data Documentation Initiative: A Foundation for Survey Comparison." Presented at the meeting of the Comparative Survey Design and Implementation
Group, March 30, 2007, Chicago, IL.
Vardigan, Mary. "ICPSR's
Use of DDI." Part of session "Putting DDI on the Road: What's in
the Metadata Toolbox?" Chair Bill Block. Presented at the
annual meeting of the International Association of Social Science
Information Services and Technology, Storrs, Connecticut, June
2002.
Wackerow, Joachim.
"Documenting, Maintaining, and Sharing Standard Variables with DDI Version 3.0: The ISCO Example".
Part of session "Prospects for DDI -- What the Evidence and Experience Tell Us," Chair Ron Nakao.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Ward, Margaret. "NESSTAR -- The Data Archive Perspective."
Presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of
Social Science Information Services and Technology, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, May 2001. (PDF 967K,
PPT 436K)
Watteler, Oliver, Ken Miller, I-Lin Kuo, Mark Diggory, and Joachim
Wackerow. "DDI Comparative Data Working Group: Introduction and Status." Part of a session on "An Inside View of DDI Version 3.0," Chair Jostein Ryssevik.
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Wittenberg, Marion M. "How to Use the DDI DTD in Day to Day Archive
Practice." Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Chicago, Illinois, May 2000.
Wong, Irene. "Fitting the Life Course of the General Social Survey Cycle 17 in the Data Documentation Initiative."
Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Association of Social Science Information
Services and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2005.
Reports
Workshops
Block, Bill, and Wendy Thomas. "Creating DDI-Compliant Codebooks." Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001.
Gregory, Arofan, Wendy Thomas, and Joachim Wackerow. "Using DDI 3.0 to
Support Preservation, Management, Access, and Dissemination Systems for
Social Science Data." Sponsored by GESIS and presented in Wadern,
Germany, October 24 - 26, 2007.
Ionescu, Sanda. "Introduction to DDI 3.0." (PPT 2.1MB) Presented at the CESSDA
Expert Seminar, UK Data Archive, September 2007.
Ionescu, Sanda, and I-Lin Kuo. "Increasing Proficiency and Efficiency with DDI."
Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2004. [Workshop exercises may be downloaded separately from the IASSIST conference site.]
Ionescu, Sanda, Mary Vardigan, and Ann Green. "A Crystal Clear Introduction to DDI Version 3.0." Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Service
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Jacobs, Jim, and Wendy Thomas. "A Gentle Introduction to DDI: What's in it for Me?" Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Jacobs, Jim, and Wendy Thomas. "Hands-On DDI 3.0 - Concept, Structure, and Tools." Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006.
Musgrave, Simon, and Jostein Ryssevik. "DDI in Action: The Innovative Data Library Using Nesstar Knowledge Products."
Presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association of Social Science Information Services and
Technology, Storrs, Connecticut, June 2002.
Thomas, Wendy L., and William C. Block. "Implementing DDI: It Ain't Rocket Science. . ." Presented at the annual meeting of the International
Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology,
Ottawa, Canada, May 2003.
Thomas, Wendy, Arofan Gregory, and Joachim Wackerow.
"Taking Advantage of DDI 3.0." Presented at the annual meeting of
the International Association of Social Science Information Services
and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
Posters
DDI Poster created for
e-Social Science Conference, October 7-9, 2007, Ann Arbor, MI
Publications
You can also obtain DDI Alliance official publications.
