[DDI-users] Access to DDI

[A. Michelle Edwards]

Good afternoon all!

Hope everyone's enjoying the beginning of what we hope to be a great summer!

I recall that there are a number of DDI users out there using Access or some other form of database to build their DDI documents.  Sorry I can't remember names or the like but I do recall a couple of presentations I attended last year at IASSIST to this effect.  I'm wondering how you would go about translating the contents of the Access database to an XML document.  Is there a script out there that someone has written?  or is there some functionality in Access that allows one to accomplish this.

Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated.  We have a local research group who currently hold their metadata in an Access database and are looking to make the move to Nesstar.  I had suggested going from Access to XML and then importing into Nesstar - but am unsure myself how the move from Access to XML would work.

Thanks and look forward to hearing from you,
Michelle

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A. Michelle Edwards, Ph.D. 
Academic Services, CCS 
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Email: edwardsm at uoguelph.ca 
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