Colectica for Excel: Using DDI Lifecycle with Spreadsheets
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COLECTICA FOR EXCEL: USING DDI LIFECYCLE WITH SPREADSHEETS
NADDI 2013
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In This Talk Brief Overview of DDI-L Colectica for Excel: a free tool to
document Datasets, Variables, and Code Lists
Import Stata and SPSS
Generate codebook documentation Demonstration
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DDI Lifecycle Uses DDI version 3.1 In this tool, DDI-L documents and
identifies datasets, variables, codelists, and categories
Enables reuse of metadata through unique identification Variables can share the same code list
Records audit trail through versioning
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Colectica for Excel
Free
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Colectica for Excel Document Datasets
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Colectica for Excel Document Variables
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Colectica for Excel Record custom fields
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Colectica for Excel Document Code Lists
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Colectica for Excel Reuse a code list
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Import SPSS and Stata Import SPSS and Stata Save labels and descriptions in DDI-L Import Code Lists
Harmonize code lists
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Publish Documentation Generate Code books from Excel
PDF, HTML, XSL-FO Publish DDI 3.1 XML
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Demonstration Demonstration
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Colectica for Excel - vNext Available now with Colectica 4.1 Allow importing already existing code
lists and variable descriptions Colectica for Excel SDK to allow
programmatic generation of documented spreadsheets
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