Technical Guide

Table of contents

• Relationship to Other Standards
  • DDI Codebook (DDI-C) and earlier versions
  • Dublin Core and MARC
  • GSIM (Generic Statistical Information Model)
  • ISO/IEC 11179
  • ISO 19115 - Geography
  • SDMX
  • METS
  • PREMIS
• Structural Features
  • Exchange structures
  • Maintainable structures
    • Modules
    • Schemes
  • Organizing Publication Package Contents
  • Managing Metadata Over Time
    • Versioning
    • DDI Scheme Groups
• General Structures
  • Identification
    • Scope of Uniqueness
    • Type of Identifier
  • Identifiable, Versionable, and Maintainable
    • Identifiable
    • Versionable
    • Maintainable
  • Reference and Scheme Reference Type
    • Reference Type
    • Scheme Reference Type
  • Administrative and Payload Metadata
• Commonly Used Structures
  • DDI Instance and DDI Fragments
    • TODO
  • String, Controlled Vocabularies
  • Citation and Coverage
  • Date
    • Usage
  • OtherMaterial
  • Name, Label, and Description
    • Name
    • Label
    • Description
  • Note
  • User Attribute Pairs
  • In / Out Parameter, Binding and Command Code
  • Quality Descriptions
• Specific Structures (by Topic)
  • Administration
  • Classification
  • Comparison
  • Data Capture
    • Questions
    • ControlConstructs
    • Other
  • Data Description
  • Foundational
  • Geographic
  • Grouping
  • Schemes
  • Study
  • Survey Development
• Versioning
• Controlled Vocabularies
• Representations
  • Representation (inline)
    • Available Inline Representation members
    • Comparison of Inline Value Representation and Response Domains
  • Representation (by Reference)
    • Available Managed Representation members
    • Comparison of Managed Value Representation and Response Domains
• Variable Value Representation and Question Response Domain
  • ValueRepresentation (abstract)
  • ValueRepresentation substitutions
  • ResponseDomain (abstract)
  • ResponseDomain substitutions
  • Representation Base Types
  • CodeRepresentationBaseType
  • DateTimeRepresentation
  • GeographicLocationCodeRepresentation
  • GeographicStructureCodeRepresentationBase
  • NumericRepresentationBase
  • TextRepresentationBase
  • CategoryRepresentationBase
  • DistributionRepresentationBase
  • GeographicRepresentationBase
  • LocationRepresentationBase
  • NominalRepresentationBase
  • RankingRepresentationBase
  • ScaleRepresentationBase
  • MissingValuesRepresentationBase
• Statistical Classification