[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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