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

[Steve McRoberts]

Hello Stefan,

We used a database and spreadsheets to fill in metadata. We wrote a  
small Java application that took the meta data and converted to xml  
and transformed all into one comprehensive DDI document.

That allows the non-technical users an easy way to add as much meta  
data as needed.

Steve McRoberts
University of Wisconsin - Madison

On Jan 8, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Stefan Kramer wrote:
> 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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