Mary Vardigan
Converting Legacy Documentation to DDI: ICPSR's Approach

maryv@icpsr.umich.edu

Converting large quantities of legacy documentation to DDI format is a huge challenge for social science data archives. At ICPSR, we are employing several approaches to this task with mixed results. This presentation will focus on the tools that ICPSR has tested with different types of documentation, in the hope that others can learn from our successes and failures. Sharing our markup experiences and our metadata tools is the best way to ensure that we all reach our common goal.

Mary Vardigan, Director, Web Resources Development
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
734-998-9840 (voice) 734-998-9905 (fax)
maryv@icpsr.umich.edu