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The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)

  • Joachim Wackerow
  • GESIS - German Social Science Infrastructure Services
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Abstract

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international effort to establish an XML-based standard for the compilation, presentation, and exchange of documentation for datasets in the social and behavioral sciences. This poster looks at DDI version 3.0 of DDI, which supports a rich and structured set of metadata elements that, not only fully informs a potential data analyst about a given dataset, but also facilitates computer processing of the data.

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10.23106/dcmi.952109391
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The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
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Wackerow, Joachim
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2008-09-10
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Data Document Initiative
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