[DDI-users] DDI-XML generating "wizard"?

Stefan Kramer stefan.kramer at yale.edu
Tue Jan 8 16:48:38 EST 2008


Greetings,

Does anyone know of a tool that consists of a web form, or a series of web 
forms (a la software "wizard"), that would allow a user -- such as a 
faculty member submitting a dataset to a repository, or a graduate 
assistant preparing a number of datasets for ingesting into a repository 
-- who has no knowledge of, or probable technical interest in, the DDI to 
fill in the metadata about their dataset(s); and when the form is 
submitted, it would generate the DDI XML, which someone else in their 
organization might then process further, or which the user might then, 
without having to be concerned about its internal structure, upload into a 
repository?

Of the tools listed at http://www.ddialliance.org/related/tools.html, 
ODODO sounds promising in that it supposedly allows "users to ... export 
XML files according to the DDI specification," but it's been unavailable 
for several weeks now; I just sent an inquiry about future availability.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

-- 
  Stefan Kramer
  Social Science Data Librarian
  Social Science Library & Information Services
  Yale University
  140 Prospect Street
  P.O. Box 208263
  New Haven, CT 06520-8263, USA
  Tel.: +1 (203) 432-6121
  E-mail: stefan.kramer at yale.edu



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