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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Bibliographic Details
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