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Invitation to participate in a joint Technical Committee and DDI 4 Development sprint to be held at DIW Berlin, November 26-30, 2018

Submitted by lyle on Tue, 2018-09-18 23:07

Dear DDI Community,

This year we are very pleased to invite you to participate in a joint Technical Committee and DDI 4 Development sprint to be held at DIW Berlin, November 26-30, 2018. Participation is open to the entire DDI community and is a great opportunity to contribute to the DDI standard. We would like to encourage everyone to consider participating, even if you are unable to attend all five days.

The work will fall into the following two, concurrent tracks with exchanges and joint sessions planned where appropriate and as needed:  

DDI Roadmap

  • Finalization of 3.3 based on review

  • Prepare COGS to accept 3.3 schema content and generate output

    • XML schema (this would be a future version)

    • UML model of 3.3 to reflect Moving Forward approach

    • Documentation infrastructure

    • OWL/RDF output

  • Evaluate differences between 3.3 and output from COGS

  • Transition paths between versions across DDI

DDI 4 Moving Forward Project

  • High-level and conceptual discussion on the direction of DDI 4 regarding content and modeling

  • Review of post-prototype issues and prototype public release feedback

    • Role of UML

      • Use of UML features

      • Refinement of modeling rules

    • Binding transformation rules

    • Role of Canonical XMI as an expression of the model

  • Plans for new production framework (COGS)

    • Production process entering content and COGS production line

    • Clarification of validation checks for entered content

  • Creation of an iteration cycle regarding modeling, representations, and prototype software implementation to ensure a robust specification on all of these levels.

  • Creation of validation suites on all of these levels and integration into the production framework

  • Structured documentation​

Location and Travel Information for DIW Berlin.

Please let us know if you are interested in joining us, even if not confirmed, and RSVP using this form by October 7, 2018. For questions, please contact Kelly Chatain (kchatain@umich.edu). Note that there is a limited amount of funding available for the meeting.  Funding guidelines and the request form are available online.

Thank you for considering this invitation and we look forward to meeting with you at Berlin!