CLOSER Discovery is the UK’s most comprehensive research tool for longitudinal population studies (LPS). DDI-Lifecycle is used to document questionnaire, question, dataset and variable metadata from 11 (and counting) leading UK studies. CLOSER Discovery is powered by the Colectica software stack including a customised Colectica Portal which sits on top of Colectica Repository, and provides...
Colectica Portal is widely used to disseminate DDI-LIfecycle metadata. It acts as a website which sits on top of Colectica Repository and provides access to item level metadata through display as web pages and as downloads in a number of formats.
The API is documented in the swagger documentation that is supplied with Colectica Portal, but for those unfamiliar with either API programming or...
With the Data Product Builder (DPB) the UK Data Service (UKDS) aims to allow researchers access to on-demand linked subsets of data, dynamically assessed for emergent disclosure risk in real time. Such a system depends both on sophisticated upstream metadata and powerful downstream computation. We detail the pipeline components required to take original curated data in traditional...
