Data Documentation Initiative: Toward a Standard for the Social Sciences
Abstract
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.
The International Journal of Digital Curation. ISSN: 1746-8256
The IJDC is published by UKOLN at the University of Bath
and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre.
and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre.