[DDI-users] greeting mail
Zsadányi Nagy Csaba
zsadanyi at tarki.hu
Sun Jan 11 17:37:53 EST 2004
Hello to all list members,
Let me introduce myself. I'm one of the employees of TÁRKI Databank from
Hungary who is responsible for developing our archiving (method, structure),
for maintaining our databases and websites.
TÁRKI has one of the oldest data archives in Eastern Europe. We are a
member institution of ICPSR. Unfortunately we are a very small databank with
low budget. It is only now that we have an opportunity to apply DDI
specification in our archiving system as widely as we could.
After studying DDI specification itself I have realized that moving towards
DDI would be more complicated than we thought. the specification is very
abstract, and because of lack of standardization of our current data archive
we have to face several problems. Moreover, it is also a problem that some
of the IT solutions we prefer are not automatically compatible with DDI. for
example we store our databases in MySQL that we manage via an ODBC frontend,
Perl CGI (using DBD DBI Apache modul). Our first goal is that our fields are
completely DDI-compatible but we want not to use xml files at all. At the
same time we would like to have the possibility of generating xml data
descriptions from SQL by using CGI scripts. (It would be useful if our data
were included in international cooperation of databanks such as EDAN
[http://www.gesis.org/en/cooperation/data_service/eastern_europe/].)
Therefore, I would like to ask you to direct me to anyone who could help us
in this transition with answering our annoying questions about some
problematic DDI elements ;-).
i look forward to any help or suggestions,
--
Csaba Zsadányi-Nagy
TÁRKI Databank, databank assistant
TÁRKI Social Research Center Social Science Databank
H-1112 Budapest, Budaörsi út 45.
tel: (+36-1) 309-7693, fax: (+36-1) 309-7666
web: http://www.tarki.hu/adatbank-h/
mail: zsadanyi at tarki.hu
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