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Administrative Framework Workshop The Butterfly Hotel

Colchester, Essex 10-11th June 2003

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• The Major Issues– 300 plus elements in the DDI– Different interpretation of those elements– Language within and across resources– Multiple version of the same resource– Subject classification schemes– Thesauri and indexing– Controlled vocabularies on DDI elements– Geography and Time– Comparative criteria






















• Different interpretation of those elements– Recommended elements supported

– Interpretation of specific DDI elements

• Language within and across resources– Languages supported

– Use of xml:lang attribute

– Interfaces – user preference




• Multiple version of the same resource– Single multi-language entry

– Single entry with links

– Multiple entries with common “ISBN”

– Definitive version of data

– Access control

– Performance figures



IDC --- Nesstar --- IDC2 --- IDC3IDC --- Nesstar --- IDC2 --- IDC3 . .• Subject classification schemes

– ECONOMICS– TRADE, INDUSTRY AND MARKETS – LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT– POLITICS– LAW, CRIME AND LEGAL SYSTEMS– EDUCATION– INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION – HEALTH– NATURAL ENVIRONMENT– HOUSING AND LAND USE PLANNING– TRANSPORT, TRAVEL (AND MOBILITY)– SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS– SOCIETY AND CULTURE– DEMOGRAPHY(POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS AND CENSUSES)– SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SYSTEMS– SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – PSYCHOLOGY– HISTORY– REFERENCE AND INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES




• ECONOMICS– economic conditions and indicators– consumption/consumer behaviour– economic policy (including budget and fiscal policy)

– income, property and investment/saving– rural economics– economic systems and development

• TRADE, INDUSTRY AND MARKETS (branches of the economy)

– business/industrial management and organisation– agricultural, forestry and rural industry (fisheries)



IDC --- Nesstar --- IDC2 --- IDC3IDC --- Nesstar --- IDC2 --- IDC3 . .• LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

– employment– unemployment– retirement– (in-job) training – labour relations/conflict– working conditions

• POLITICS– mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion – elections– political ideology– domestic political issues– government, political systems and organisations– international politics and organisations– conflict, security and peace




• LAW, CRIME AND LEGAL SYSTEMS– legislation– crime– legal systems– law enforcement– rehabilitation/reintegration into society

• EDUCATION– compulsory and pre-school education– post-compulsory education– life-long/continuing education– vocational education– basic skills education– teaching profession– educational policy




• INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION – mass media– advertising– information society (including internet use)

– language and linguistics

• HEALTH– health care and medical treatment– nutrition– childbearing, family planning and abortion– physical fitness and exercise– drug abuse, alcohol and smoking– accidents and injuries– specific diseases and medical conditions– health policy – general health




• HOUSING AND LAND USE PLANNING– housing– land use and planning

• SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS– equality and inequality– social and occupational mobility– social exclusion– gender and gender roles– family life and marriage (including household composition)– youth– elderly– children– minorities– elites and leadership




• NATURAL ENVIRONMENT– environmental degradation/pollution and environmental protection– natural resources and energy – plant and animal distribution– natural landscapes

• SOCIETY AND CULTURE – social behaviour and attitudes– social conditions and indicators– cultural activities and participation– cultural and national identity– leisure, tourism and sport– religion and values– community, urban and rural life– time use– social change



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– morbidity and mortality– fertility– censuses– migration

• SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SYSTEMS– social welfare policy– social welfare systems/structures– specific social services: use and provision

• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – information technology– biotechnology

• REFERENCE AND INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES– computer and simulation programs– teaching packages and test datasets– reference sources




• Thesauri and indexing– Broad level thesaurus - ELSST

– Specific language extensions

– Assigned keyword translation

– Free text utilisation

– Synonym capture

– Central resource – maintenance

– Mapping – partial equivalence










– Geography and Time• Standardise

• Map interface

• Map displays

– Comparative criteria• DDI elements to display

• Matching of datasets

• Research feedback



IDC --- Nesstar --- IDC2 --- IDC3IDC --- Nesstar --- IDC2 --- IDC3 . .Sometimes… especially in the case of comparative data, there is too much information… a lot of information on

sampling procedures in different countries on separate files or separate pages, so that it is difficult to put the pieces together

I would start looking at the background variables and comparing them, how they are used in different countries

“a thesaurus can be useful to find comparative elements across countries, but to develop a thesaurus that really overcomes differences between countries is a real challenge”…

However, once the thesaurus was explained she realised that she had used the thesaurus at the UKDA but hadn’t realised that it was called a thesaurus (although she is familiar with the word itself). She found it an effective way of searching

even datasets that do ask the same questions in different countries the questions mean something different according to, you know, different cultures, different life styles and everything.

She would find dates, broad themes, narrower themes and size of the dataset (number of cases) very useful as fields to search on. Also, being able to search for coverage (geographical) regions would be excellent

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