[DDI-users] [IASST-L] Question for DDI and or Nesstar Publisher users: Is there a way to reference content across DDI codebook studies?

[Sanda Ionescu]

Hi, Chifundo.

In DDI Codebook you can reference a(n external) file using the URI
attribute in File Description (see documentation below).
However I believe it is not possible to do this within Nesstar. I am pretty
sure Nesstar does not support this attribute.
So you would have to add the URL outside of Nesstar and figure out a way to
retrieve the actual files using the URL.

Best,
Sanda.

*"<fileDscr> Data Files Description*

   - Optional
   - Repeatable
   - Attributes: ID, xml:lang, source
   <http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Codebook/2.1/DTD/Documentation/codeBook.html>,
   URI, sdatrefs, methrefs, pubrefs, access

*Description: *Information about the data file(s) that comprises a
collection. This section can be repeated for collections with multiple
files.

The "URI" attribute may be a URN or a URL that can be used to retrieve the
file. "




Sanda Ionescu
ICPSR
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Phone: 734-615-2932

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Chifundo Kanjala <chifundok at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am working on a project documenting longitudinal data from a number of
> studies. My question is related to the documentation of data files that are
> used across studies. Is there a way to reference content across studies in
> Nesstar Publisher of generally in DDI codebook?
> I need to do this because some of the data files I am working on are used
> in more than one study. Rather than adding them to each of the studies I
> would like to document them one in one "generic" study and then refer to
> them. Or its only possible in DDI life cycle?
>
> Regards,
>
> Chifundo
>
>
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