Tools
- DDI on Rails
Server-side software for building a data portal, with a particular focus on survey datasets. It uses DDI to provide access to the data at the level of concepts and variables. For an example of it in use, see the SOEPinfo data portal.
- Istat SDMX Framework Project
A suite of tools for managing data and metadata in SDMX.
- SDMX Editor
A simple tool for managing and accessing statistical metadata, using the SDMX framework.
- SDMX Mapping Assistant
A tool to facilitate the mapping between the structural metadata provided by an SDMX-ML Data Structure Definition and those that reside in a database of a dissemination environment.
- SDMX Tool Repository
A list of software tools supporting the SDMX standard.
Use Cases
- Eurostat
The statistical office of the European Union, which implementats SDMX in a number of projects.
- SDMX Implementations
The SDMX website's list of current and planned practical implimentations from national and international organisations.
- The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Data Archive
Provides members of the scholarly community with access to files associated with scholarly studies for the purpose of replication, for all studies conducted by ISPS-affiliated researchers. ISPS metadata records conform to DDI requirements and include a minimal set of Dublin Core metadata elements.
- UKDA - UK Data Archive
Curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom, the archive uses DDI as the basis for its catalogue records.
Metadata standards
- SDMX - Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange
A set of common technical and statistical standards and guidelines to be used for the efficient exchange and sharing of statistical data and metadata.