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

Michelle Edwards edwardsm at uoguelph.ca
Tue May 4 09:30:37 EDT 2004


Hi all...

I just noticed that I received my own message this morning but did receive a
copy of the one I sent last night...

Karen...

We have also been playing around with the ODS XML engine in SAS to create
the tags directly from SAS.  It requires coding but is all contained in the
SAS program.  We are also playing around with the Nesstar software.

Michelle


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Edwards" <edwardsm at uoguelph.ca>
To: "Data Documentation Initiative Users Group" <ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [DDI-users] Automatic generation of variable-levelmetadata
fromSAS/SPSS files


> 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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