Use of metadata standards such as DDI http://www.ukcensusoutputs.net/forum/t-124621/use-of-metadata-standards-such-as-ddi Posts in the discussion thread "Use of metadata standards such as DDI" - A way to bind the metadata more closely to the data could be through the use of DDI a developing standard for describing social science data. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:36:11 +0000 http://www.ukcensusoutputs.net/forum/t-124621#post-369837 Use of metadata standards such as DDI http://www.ukcensusoutputs.net/forum/t-124621/use-of-metadata-standards-such-as-ddi#post-369837 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:22:14 +0000 CDU_Rob 255488 As DDI can document the whole census and could record the relationship between the original questions, the concepts, the variables, the geography through to data output, it could enable the possibility of being able to provide rich content to census users, by including the definition of what the data is as part of the output and a way for the census user to explore and discover more about how the data was created.

Any thoughts/ comments welcome

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