Nectar Publisher 🐝

Note

The branch with WebR (to import SPSS etc) also have better support for importing npm packages us this branch as a base during the hackathon

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