Title
Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
Date
1/20/2016
(Last Updated: 01/20/2016)
(Last Updated: 01/20/2016)
Status
Active
Abstract
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) develops an international standard for describing data from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Expressed in XML, the DDI metadata specification accompanies and enables data conceptualization, collection, processing, distribution, discovery, analysis, repurposing, and archiving.
Specifications