Survey CTRL and DDI: TMT

The TMT is the Translation Management Tool, a web environment/service that helps coordinate the translation processes for large international studies. Under the SERISS project it has been tested and further developed for the European Social Survey (ESS) and the European Values Study (EVS). It is a key tool in the Survey CTRL suite, but also connects and integrates with many other survey software tools. Recently a number of new features were developed, the interface has been redesigned, the concept behind the response-construct has been changed, the archiving functionality is updated and a new way of documenting and communicating in the system has been launched. The strength of the Survey CTRL approach is to view a survey design process as iterative. CentERdata provides the tools to solidify and speed up this process, as well as safeguarding and collecting data on each step. This holistic approach makes it easier to monitor and collect para data on the development process. To support existing questionnaire development work processes the tools were designed independently. DDI helps in the communication between the Survey CTRL tools, but also makes it easier to integrate into existing DDI compatible work processes.