<div dir="ltr">Hi, Chifundo.<div><br><div>In DDI Codebook you can reference a(n external) file using the URI attribute in File Description (see documentation below).</div><div>However I believe it is not possible to do this within Nesstar. I am pretty sure Nesstar does not support this attribute.</div><div>So you would have to add the URL outside of Nesstar and figure out a way to retrieve the actual files using the URL.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br>Sanda.</div><div><br></div><div><b>"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><fileDscr> Data Files Description</font></span></b></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Optional<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Repeatable</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Attributes: <a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Codebook/2.1/DTD/Documentation/codeBook.html">ID, xml:lang, source</a>, URI, sdatrefs, methrefs, pubrefs, access</font></li></ul><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;padding-left:25px"><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Description: </em>Information about the data file(s) that comprises a collection. This section can be repeated for collections with multiple files.</font></p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The "URI" attribute may be a URN or a URL that can be used to retrieve the file. "</font></p><p><br></p><p style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Sanda Ionescu</div><div>ICPSR</div><div>University of Michigan</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI</div><div>Phone: 734-615-2932</div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Chifundo Kanjala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chifundok@gmail.com" target="_blank">chifundok@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,<br><br></div><div>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?<br></div><div>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? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br><br></div><div>Chifundo<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><p> </p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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