Tools

Fri, 2009-09-11 17:29 — ddiadmin

DDI Tools Project

Sample Marked-up Codebooks

XSL Style Sheets

  • ICPSR codebook stylesheet (for the Version 2.0 DTD) created to enable a simple one-page presentation of the codebook in HTML (stripped clean of site-specific navigation for ease of printing). It includes minor navigational aids, enabling users to selectively view sections of the codebook, and to move through lists of variables and variable groups.

Metadata Resources

Software

  • DDI DExT
    Tool to import data and DDI metadata from SPSS files with conversion to ASCII and re-export...
  • DDI Index
    DDI Index is a Java/Javascript application that provides indexing and searching of XML files...
  • DDI to DDL
    SDA provides an online DDI to DDL Conversion Service. You can upload DDI files from your computer...
  • DDI2StatsProgs
    DDI2StatsProgs is a flexible tool to generate data definition commands for statistical programs and...
  • DDIXSL
    A tool to transform and format content of DDI documents as HTML pages and PDF files, and in other...
  • DDLTOX
    A tool to convert SDA's data description language (DDL) files into DDI variable specifications.
  • Nesstar Publisher
    Nesstar Publisher is an advanced data management program. It consists of data and metadata...
  • queXML
    queXML is a simple XML schema for designing questionnaires. Included are stylesheets to administer...
  • R sav2ddi
    An R function to read SPSS files and produce valid DDI Version 3.0 documents.
  • SDA TO XML
    A tool to convert SDA system files into DDI variable specifications, including frequencies and...
  • SPSSOMS2DDI
    A tool to generate variable-level metadata for DDI documents from SPSS files.
  • StatsProgs2DDI 3.0
    StatsProgs2DDI is a tool to generate the variable-level documentation in DDI 3.0 format on the...
  • VARGROUP
    Through this program users can create variable groups by first entering a list of variables...
  • XCONVERT
    A tool to convert SAS, SPSS, and Stata data definitions to DDI. The XCONVERT documentation also...
  • DDI Editing Framework
    A DDI 3 editing tool under development at the Danish Data Archive.
  • DDI 3.0 Editor-Lite
    An authoring tool produced by ICPSR that supports the production of DDI 3.0 Instances. It generates...
  • Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA)
    An online analysis system that provides tools to create DDI 2.
  • Microdata Management Toolkit
    A tool to generate DDI 2 developed by the World Bank Data Group for the International Household...
  • Colectica Designer
    Colectica Designer is a visual DDI metadata editor and survey questionnaire designer. Colectica...
  • Colectica Repository
    Colectica Repository is a centralized storage system for managing DDI data resources, enabling...
  • Colectica Resolver
    Colectica DDI Resolver is a DNS-based resolution service for DDI3 agency identifiers and related...
  • Colectica Resolver Library
    The Colectica DDI Resolver Library makes it easy to integrate DNS-based data resolution...
  • Colectica Web
    Colectica Web is a web application, powered by Colectica Repository, which enables data and...

XML Examples

Components

  • XML Beans for DDI 1/2.x
    Apache XMLBeans packages for DDI 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3, 2.0 and 2.1. XMLBeans is a...
  • XML Beans for DDI 3.0
    Apache XMLBeans packages for DDI 3.0. XMLBeans is a technology for accessing XML by binding it...

Documentation