<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Many thanks Sanda, Amber and Knut for the very useful input. I will for now explore the "other studies" fields that Amber suggested as we are sticking to the use of Nesstar Publisher in the current project. Next I will explore other options within DDI codebook as suggested by Sanda. I am also getting a lot of guidance from Jay Greenfield who is working (together with others) on compatibility between DDI codebook and DDI 4. Knut, we do aim to eventually move to Life cycle and or DDI 4 once we have laid the foundational standardised metadata using the version of DDI supported by Nesstar Publisher, so i will get back to your advice in the near future - I will keep you posted.<br><br><br></div>Once again, many thanks to all!<br><br></div>Regards,<br><br></div>Chifundo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Sanda Ionescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sandai@umich.edu" target="_blank">sandai@umich.edu</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">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" target="_blank">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="m_734286259653070249gmail_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"><div><div class="h5">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></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><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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