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Colectica for Excel

Description: 

Colectica for Microsoft Excel is a free tool to document your spreadsheet data using the open standard for data documentation. Document Variables and Datasets: Colectica allows documenting of Variables, Code Lists, and Data Sets directly from within Microsoft Excel. Metadata is Embedded: Colectica saves your standards-based metadata directly in the Microsoft Excel file. If you email or share your file, the metadata will still be attached. Publish Documentation: Colectica for Excel can generate documentation for your Variables, Code Lists, and dataset in PDF, Word, HTML, and XSL-FO. Import Stata to Excel: Colectica for Excel allows direct importing and documenting of Stata data files, with a file extension .dta. The variable names, labels and code lists in the Stata file will also be imported and added to the stored documentation automatically. Import SPSS to Excel: Colectica for Excel allows direct importing and documenting of SPSS data files, with a file extension .sav. The variable names, labels and code lists in the SPSS file will also be imported and added to the stored documentation automatically. Create DDI-Lifecycle Metadata: Export your data documentation to an XML file in the DDI metadata format, the standard for data documentation. Open and edit it from Colectica Designer, Colectica Express, or other DDI applications.

Creator(s)
Name(s) of institution(s): 
Colectica
Contact email: 
support@colectica.com
Availability: 
In production
Latest Version: 
4.1
Operating system requirements
Supported Operating Systems: 
Win32
Win64
Other system requirements: 
Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, or 2013
Support Available: 
Free, for limited time
DDI version(s) supported: 
3.1
3.2
3.3
Type: 
Tool
Exports DDI XML: 
Yes
Imports DDI XML: 
Unknown

DDI-XSLT

Owner: 
olof
Description: 

A collection of xslt-stylesheets for DDI for transformation the metadata to other formats. Curren XSLT in development: DDI 3.1 to XHTML DDI 2.1 to RDF DDI 3.1 to datacite (development version )

Creator(s)
Name(s) of individual author(s)/programmer(s): 
Dan Kristiansen
Jannik Vestergaard Jensen
Thomas Bosch
Benjamin Zapilko
Name(s) of institution(s): 
Danish Data Archive
Danish Data Archive
Gesis
Gesis
Contact email: 
olof.olsson@snd.gu.se
Availability: 
Alpha release
Operating system requirements
Supported Operating Systems: 
Win32
Win64
Linux32
Linux64
Macintosh
Other
Support Available: 
Community-driven support
DDI version(s) supported: 
2.1
3.1
Type: 
Tool
Imports DDI XML: 
Yes

Dataset Documentation Manager

Owner: 
andias
Description: 

Developed by the Data Archive of GESIS, this tool imports SPSS data files; allows documentation of questions, sub-questions and answers; enables language-specific documentation; shows two languages concurrently on the screen; permits reuse of question documentation; exports into a DDI 2-compatible format, for Nesstar or long-term preservation; and exports into a DDI 3-compatible format, supporting enhanced publications.

Creator(s)
Name(s) of individual author(s)/programmer(s): 
Alexander Mühlbauer
Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen
Name(s) of institution(s): 
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Contact email: 
Wolfgang.Zenk-Moeltgen@gesis.org
Availability: 
In production
Latest Version: 
2.5
Operating system requirements
Supported Operating Systems: 
Win32
Programming/scripting languages used: 
Visual Basic 6
Support Available: 
Free, to any user
DDI version(s) supported: 
1.x
2.0
2.1
Exports DDI XML: 
Yes
Imports DDI XML: 
No

Questasy

Owner: 
mcneillh
Description: 

Questasy is a web application developed to manage the documentation and dissemination of data and metadata for panel surveys. It manages questions and variables, including question reuse across multiple studies and longitudinal panels. It also manages concepts, publications, study information, and more. For administrators and project managers, Questasy provides an intuitive interface for managing the metadata. Questasy tracks downloads, and also easily integrates with web tracking applications (such as Google Analytics) to provide detailed statistics on site usage. For researchers, Questasy provides a fast, customizable, easy-to-use web interface for browsing and searching the metadata, and downloading the data. Researchers can also select the variables they are interested in and download a "custom basket" of variables, complete with a custom codebook for their selection. Codebooks are generated in both HTML for browsing and PDF for download/printing.

Creator(s)
Name(s) of individual author(s)/programmer(s): 
Alerk Amin
Edwin de Vet
Bart van Nieuwburg
Name(s) of institution(s): 
CentERdata
Contact email: 
e.balster@uvt.nl
Availability: 
In production
Latest Version: 
4.2.1
Operating system requirements
Supported Operating Systems: 
Win32
Other system requirements: 
Web Server (such as Apache) with PHP Database (such as MySQL)
Programming/scripting languages used: 
PHP, using the cakePHP framework
Support Available: 
For-fee
DDI version(s) supported: 
3.0
Exports DDI XML: 
Yes
Imports DDI XML: 
No

DDI to HTML Stylesheet

Owner: 
David Schiller
Description: 

A tool to transform and format content of DDI documents as HTML pages. 

Codebook2-0.xsl

Creator(s)
Name(s) of institution(s): 
ICPSR
Availability: 
No longer developed, but still available
Latest Version: 
1.0
Operating system requirements
Supported Operating Systems: 
Win32
Win64
Programming/scripting languages used: 
XSLT
Support Available: 
Community-driven support
DDI version(s) supported: 
2.0
Type: 
Tool