At its annual meeting in June 2012 the DDI Alliance approved the creation of a model-driven specification for DDI with bindings to expressions like XML and RDF. This next-generation specification will will make it easier to interact with other disciplines and other standards, to understand the specification, to develop and maintain it in a consistent and structured way, and to enable software development that is less dependent on specific DDI versions.
To begin work on the model, a workshop was held at Schloss Dastuhl in Wadern, Germany, in October 2012.