[DDI-users] Request for comments/volunteers - Aristotle Metadata Registry (DDI3.2 compliant registry)

[Samuel Spencer]

Howdy All,
(This message was previously posted at: http://www.
kidstrythisathome.com/2015/03/request-for-commentsvolunteers-aristotle-
metadata-registry/)

This is a request for comments and volunteers for an open source ISO 11179
metadata registry I have been working on called the Aristotle Metadata
Registry (Aristotle-MDR). Aristotle-MDR is a Django/Python application that
provides an authoring environment for a wide variety of 11179 compliant
metadata objects with a focus to being multilingual. As such, I'm hoping to
raise interest around bug checkers, translators, experienced HTML and
Python programmers and data modelers for mapping of ISO 11179 to DDI3.2
(and potentially other formats).

For the eager:
The github - https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-metadata-registry/
The demo/dev instance - http://aristotle.pythonanywhere.com/
Screenshots - https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-metadata-
registry/wiki/Screenshots

Background: Aristotle-MDR is based on the Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare's METeOR Registry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METeOR), an ISO
11179 compliant authoring tool that manages several thousand metadata items
for tracking health, community services, hospital and primary care
statistics. I have undertaken the Aristotle-MDR project to build upon the
ideas behind Meteor, and extend it to improve compliance with 11179, but to
also allow for access and discovery using other standards, including DDI
and GSIM.

Aristotle-MDR is build on a number of existing open source frameworks,
including Django, Haystack, Bootstrap and jQuery which allows it to easily
scale from mobile to desktop on the client side, and scale from small
shared hosting to full-scale enterprise environments on the server side.
Along with the in-built authoring suite is the Haystack search platform
which allows for a range of searching solutions from enterprise search such
as Solr or Elastisearch, to smaller scale search engines.

The goal of the Aristotle-MDR is to conform to the ISO/IEC 11179 standard
as closely as possible, so while it has a limited range of metadata
objects, much like the 11179 standard it allows for the easy extension and
inclusion of additional items. Among those already available, are
extensions for:

- health indicators: https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/comet-indicator
-registry
- datasets: https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-dataset-extensions
- glossaries: https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-glossary
Information on how to create custom objects can be found in the
documentation: http://aristotle-metadata-registry.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
extensions/index.html

Due to the wide variety of needs for users to access information, there is
a download extension API that allows for the creation of a wide variety of
download formats. Included is the ability to generate PDF versions of
content from simple HTML templates, but an additional module allows for the
creation of DDI3.2 (at the moment this supports a small number of objects
only): *https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-ddi-utils
<https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-ddi-utils>*

As mentioned, this is a call for comments and volunteers. First and
foremost I'd appreciate as much help as possible with my mapping of 11179
objects in DDI3.2 (or earlier versions), but also with the translations for
the user interface - which is currently available in English and Swedish
(thanks to Olof Olsson). Partial translations into other languages are
available thanks to translations in the Django source code, but additional
translations around technical terms would be appreciated. More information
on how to contribute to translating is available on the wiki:
https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-metadata-registry/wiki/Providing-
translations

To aid with this I've added a few blank translation files in common
languages. Once the repository is forked, it should be relatively
straightforward to edit these in Github and send a pull request back
without having to pull down the entire codebase. These are listed by
ISO 639-1 code, and if you don't see your own listed let me know and I can
quickly pop a boilerplate translation file in.

https://github.com/aristotle-mdr/aristotle-metadata-registry/tree/master/
aristotle_mdr/locale

If you find bugs or identify areas of work, feel free to raise them either
by emailing me or by raising a bug on Github:https://github.com/aristotle-
mdr/aristotle-metadata-registry/issues

Cheers,
Sam.
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