Data Documentation Initiative: Toward a Standard for the Social Sciences

Data Documentation Initiative: Toward a Standard for the Social Sciences

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an emerging metadata standard for the social sciences. The DDI is in active use by many data specialists and archivists, but researchers themselves have been slow to recognize the benefits of the standards approach to metadata. This paper outlines how the D...

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Main Authors: Mary Vardigan, Pascal Heus, Wendy Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2008-08-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/66
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spelling doaj-f0e73369ea8c4e719617de7be1937dea2020-11-24T21:23:18ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562008-08-013110711310.2218/ijdc.v3i1.4545Data Documentation Initiative: Toward a Standard for the Social SciencesMary VardiganPascal HeusWendy ThomasThe Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an emerging metadata standard for the social sciences. The DDI is in active use by many data specialists and archivists, but researchers themselves have been slow to recognize the benefits of the standards approach to metadata. This paper outlines how the DDI has evolved since its inception in 1995 and discusses ways to broaden its impact in the social science research community.http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/66
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description The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an emerging metadata standard for the social sciences. The DDI is in active use by many data specialists and archivists, but researchers themselves have been slow to recognize the benefits of the standards approach to metadata. This paper outlines how the DDI has evolved since its inception in 1995 and discusses ways to broaden its impact in the social science research community.
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