A Common Metadata Understanding for the Three DASISH Survey Tools

Three tools are under development under the Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities (DASISH) project: a questionnaire design and documentation tool, a translation tool and a question/variable metadata base. The primary aim of the three tools is to assist large-scale survey projects in their business processes related to questionnaire design and documentation, translation and metadata production, archiving and dissemination. The DASISH tools are developed as individual tools that should be able to communicate with each other. To facilitate this, a common metadata understanding between the three tools is needed. Requirements for a common metadata model for the three tools were presented in EDDI 2013. This presentation will focus on the further decisions made regarding the common metadata model, as well as their rationale. Topics like DDI usage, the communication between the tools, as well as the identification and versioning system and policy will be discussed.