出版社:International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology
摘要:Welcome to the fourth issue of Volume 38 and the first issue of Volume 39 in this double-issue of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 38:4 & 39:1, 2014 & 2015). This special issue is guest edited by Joachim Wackerow of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany and Mary Vardigan of ICPSR at the University of Michigan, USA. They have arranged, participated, herded other DDI experts, as well as produced in several workshops and conferences on the issues of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). This special issue on DDI addresses the semantic web. I have included the keyword ‘meta-analysis’ in the header for this DDI-issue as I believe that is where the combination of DDI and the semantic web is going to make one of its big impacts. I expect precise and detailed DDI metadata with strong applications will bring remarkable support for overview and accumulation of results from large amounts of datasets.