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Is this Metadata Management Tool of Any Use? Extending CESSDA's Software Maturity Matrix to the DDI Domain
As part of its efforts to promote good practice for own-use software development and help meet its five common interoperability characteristics, CESSDA has defined a software maturity matrix. The w...
Progress with the CESSDA Euro Question Bank Project
Survey questions of different datasets in different languages from the CESSDA Service Providers will be the content of the Euro Question Bank (EQB). The project develops and implements a central se...
Perspectives on the Implementation of the CESSDA Metadata Model
CESSDA Metadata Standards Portfolio, outcome of CESSDA Metadata Management (CMM) Project, includes core metadata model and controlled vocabularies (CV) for relevant metadata fields. The Portfolio w...
DDI-FlatDB: Next steps
We analyzed our current data structures and working habits of, and with the DDI-FlatDB with respect to efficiency of data access and the effectiveness of the developer, adopting new DDI versions. F...
Lessons Learned with Additional Mappings into DDI-FlatDB
At EDDI 15 and 16 we presented a flexible way for storing metadata structured with DDI called DDI-FlatDB on the use cases of a questionnaire editor. Within the last months, we were faced with DDI 3...
Tutorial on DDI controlled vocabularies
This tutorial will cover the aim and content of the DDI Controlled Vocabularies (CVs) and general principles of their use in metadata. It will include use of CVs in local languages. Tutorial aimed...