[DDI-users] Automatic generation of variable-levelmetadata from SAS/SPSS files

Michelle Edwards edwardsm at uoguelph.ca
Tue May 4 09:27:08 EDT 2004


Yes it does work with SAS files as well - but there is some tweaking
required.

Michelle

----- Original Message -----
From: "I-Lin Kuo" <ikuo at icpsr.umich.edu>
To: "Data Documentation Initiative Users Group" <ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [DDI-users] Automatic generation of variable-levelmetadata from
SAS/SPSS files


> The Nesstar publisher is a commercial tool designed to work with DDI. It
is
> capable of generating DDI directly from SPSS data definition or portable
> files. I believe it works with SAS portable files as well, but may or may
> not work with SAS data definition statements. Nesstar also works with
STATA
> .dta files. See http://www.nesstar.com/products/publisher/
>
> If you will be at the IASSIST 2004 Conference in Madison, WI, Sanda
Ionescu
> and I will be conducting Workshop 4, which will cover some of these
> techniques which don't use Nesstar publisher. See
> http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/iassist2004/workshops.html (enrollment is
limited
> to 40).
>
>
> At 03:59 PM 5/3/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >Has there been any attempt to process data directly from SAS or SPSS
> >files into variable-level metadata? Is this just not feasible? Or has it
> >just not been done?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >Karen R. Harker, MLS
> >UT Southwestern Medical Library
> >5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
> >Dallas, TX  75390-9049
> >214-648-8946
> >http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/
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