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Directions
The DLI External Advisory Committee has been promoting DDI as a standard for DLI data.
This appears in the DLI Strategic Plan following feedback in the mid-pilot evaluation and the input of EAC members.
Chuck Humphrey
Ontario DLI Training
April 7, 2004
Directions
In October 2003, the EAC allocated funds to seed the creation of DDI-compliant files and to give general direction.
Given these directions, how do we all work together to share in the opportunities created by its implementation?
Recent Developments
A new discussion group was begun in February 2004 called, CANDII or the Canadian DDI discussion group.
The purpose of this group is to create a dialogue among the stakeholders of DDI users and to explore means of collaboration.
CANDDI
A Yahoo Group was established in February 2004 and a network of contacts interested in participating was established.
The first in-person meeting was held in Montreal on March 9, 2004 during the DLI Train-the-Trainers workshop.
CANDDI
The group agreed in Montreal that an early task would be to review the DDI standard to identify the set of tags that would be considered a minimum set by which data documentation should be created in Canada.
This could be developed into a template to represent best practices.
CANDDI
This group is also identifying the challenges we face in creating data documentation using the DDI standard.
Examples:• How do we package documentation for
both master files and public use files using DDI?
CANDDI
Examples:• What guidelines should be used for
defining variable groupings?• What controlled vocabularies and
thesauri should be developed and endorsed?
• How should a Canadian-endorsed set of DDI tags be validated?
Time to Talk