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DDI2CMDI

This (planned) CMDI transformation converts DDI metadata documents into valid CMD documents.

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Status

information gathering

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Contact

• Dieter van Uytvanck? (CLARIN ERIC)

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Contents

1. Status
2. Contact
3. Contents
4. Getting the code
5. Description
   1. Usage information
   2. Questions and Answers

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Getting the code

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Description

See how these 3 files (for a large oral history collection - collection
level  and item level).

See how they compare to your standards. These are suitable for our oral
history collections, but could be easily mapped to CMDI I expect.

  * DDI - Codebook  (2.5) collection level
    (global) http://www.ddialliance.org
    <http://www.ddialliance.org/>
    	
    Welcome to the Data Documentation Initiative | Data ...
    <http://www.ddialliance.org/>
    www.ddialliance.org
    Document, Discover and Interoperate. The Data Documentation
    Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing
    statistical and social science data.



  * TEI - item level
  * QuDEX - relationships and annotations (this example does not include
    the XML for parts of data and annotated)
     www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage
    <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/>
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    UK Data Archive - CREATE & MANAGE DATA
    <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/>
    www.data-archive.ac.uk
    We facilitate data sharing. Find out about the best practices for
    creating, preparing, storing and sharing data.


    / <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/>  projects/qudex/

We use very easy input frontends for our metadata processing staff,
using Sharepoint (glorified Excel sheet) with a schema behind it.

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Usage information

Questions and Answers