[DDI-users] Create PDF Codebook

[Olof Olsson]

Hi Amber!
The nesstar codebook is done via a DDI-C -> XSLT -> XML-FO -> PDF transformation.

It was developed by Pascal Heus in 2006 and used in nesstar webview and publisher.
A staff member at SND have done some fixes and restructure of it an published as a part of the ddi-xslt package:
https://github.com/MetadataTransform/ddi-xslt/tree/master/ddi-fo

Link to the full xslt file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MetadataTransform/ddi-xslt/master/ddi-fo/dditofo_complete.xsl

To run this you need apache fop https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

Example of transformation:
fop -xml ddifile.xml -xsl dditofo_complete.xsl -pdf pdffile.pdf

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Olof

Från: ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu <ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu> För Amber Leahey
Skickat: den 1 maj 2019 17:36
Till: Data Documentation Initiative Users Group <ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu>
Kopia: Victoria Lubitch <victoria.lubitch at utoronto.ca>
Ämne: [DDI-users] Create PDF Codebook

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone in the community can help us out. We would like to generate PDF Codebooks from DDI XML that is generated by a new tool we are developing for use in Dataverse.

The tool allows users to enhance variable metadata for datasets deposited in the Dataverse repository. A prototype interface is available here<https://scholarsportal.github.io/Dataverse-Data-Curation-Tool/?uri=https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/api/access/datafile/40620/metadata/ddi>.

We really like the style of the Codebook generated by tools such as Nesstar, does anyone know of any existing code for us to reuse? I've attached a sample Nesstar Codebook in case you are wondering.

Thanks in advance,
Amber Leahey
Data & GIS Librarian
Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries
416 978 7217
amber.leahey at utoronto.ca<mailto:amber.leahey at utoronto.ca>
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