Designing an Ontology for the Data Documentation Initiative
This work addresses the need for standardized data interchange in the DDI community, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methodologies.
The paper tackled the problem of representing DDI 3 data and metadata in a standard web format by designing an ontology, enabling the DDI community to publish and link data as part of the Linked Open Data cloud.
An ontology of the DDI 3 data model will be designed by following the ontology engineering methodology to be evolved based on state-of-the-art methodologies. Hence DDI 3 data and metadata can be represented in form of a standard web interchange format RDF and processed by highly available RDF tools. As a consequence the DDI community has the possibility to publish and link LOD data sets to become part of the LOD cloud.