Speakers
Description
The CESSDA European Question Bank (EQB) project, supported by CESSDA and participating service providers, aims to build up a rich database of survey questions in multiple languages. The question bank allows questionnaire designers to identify existing fielded survey questions and their translations, and allows researchers to search for and discover questions and data of interest. The source questionnaire metadata is provided using DDI Codebook and Lifecycle.
Participating service providers pay into the consortium to cover the annual Colectica licence fees, and in return are expected to contribute questionnaires in their national languages. Each partner within the EQB consortium must comply with the requirements, which include establishing an OAI-PMH endpoint which will serve the DDI XML files.
To import the data into Colectica, we developed an importer CLI tool. This tool allows EQB to leverage CESSDA's pre-existing harvesting and validation infrastructure written for the CESSDA Data Catalogue. It also normalises the metadata in a manner compatible with Colectica, and uses Colectica's official CLI utility to perform the import.
This presentation will address the various DDI-related technical requirements, as well as the associated challenges and solutions.