print email comment close Data Documentation Initiative URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/ Description: "The Data Documentation Initiative [DDI] is an international effort to establish a standard for technical documentation describing social science data. A membership-based Alliance is developing the DDI specification, which is written in XML." Find the specification, project history, information about the Alliance, users information, and more. Searchable. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Metadata -- Standards Social sciences LII Database Information: Record 14477 created by Karen Schneider on 09/16/2003 Last modification on 09/30/2003 Published: 09/16/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14477