Nectar Publisher 🐝

Document your tabular datasets and create codebooks and machine actionable metadata using DDI.

Note

Nectar Publisher is under early development and might not work correctly

Run the application

• On GitHub pages: https://ddi-developers.github.io/nectar-publisher
• Localy by download and extracting this zip-file (works offline when downloaded)

Implementation and status for Nectar Publisher 1.0

Dataset inputs

• CSV / TSV - files
• Excel / ODS spreadsheet
• SPSS (via OpenCPU)
• SPSS (local in browser parser)

Metadata imports

• DDI-C 2.5 variable documentation
• DDI-L 3.3 variable documentation

Output

• Metadata
  • DDI-C 2.5 XML
  • DDI-L 3.3 XML
  • DDI-CDI JSON-LD
• Codebook
  • Markdown
  • Html
  • Pdf

Plugin system to push metadata & data to external repository

• Define a interface with methods for export
• Example implementation for a repository

Column based listing with variables in focus

• Responsive layout
• User interviews and requirements for efficent interface
• Layout design

Metadata

Data file documentation

• File metadata (extracted from file)
  • filename
  • delimiter
  • mimeType
  • size (bytes)
  • checksum (sha256)
• Variable metadata (autodetected & input)
  • Id (column header name if exist, fallback to column number)
  • Column number (auto generated on file import)
  • Name (set to column header if existing)
  • Label
  • Description
  • DataType
  • UnitCode
  • Min/Max value
  • CollectionMethod
  • ResponseDomain
    • Text
    • Numeric
    • Datetime
    • Code
      • value
      • label
      • isMissingValue
      • frequency

Build instructions

No build tools required.
Nectar Publisher aims for easy development & deployment without the need for any special tools or processes.
Open any source file; edit, save see changes in the browser KISS Principle.

License

MIT