[DDI-SRG] [Fwd: LimeSurvey & DDI 3]

[Pascal Heus]

FYI
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Subject: 	LimeSurvey & DDI 3
Date: 	Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:31:04 +0100
From: 	Paw Michael Kjøbmand Gyldenkærne <pmg at dda.dk>
To: 	<pascal.heus at gmail.com>
CC: 	Jannik Vestergaard Jensen <jvj at dda.dk>



Dear Pascal,
 
Jannik thought you might be interested in the following...
 
LimeSurvey is an open source project based on php and MySQL. 
It's primarily used for conducting online surveys, but also supports 
direct data entry. It has been fully translated in to 25 different 
languages; thus making it useful to conduct cross-border websurveys 
(e.g. with respondents from all EU member states).
 
The people running the project are working on a major rewrite of the 
code, i.e. the future ver. 2.x will be modular, include increased 
support of different formats (e.g. XML) etc. Last week, the 
project won Les Trophées du libre 2007 in the category 'Enterprise 
Management' (http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/?lang=en).
 
Now to the main point: From my perspective - being a social scientist 
and not a software developer - LimeSurvey seems to be an ideal "partner" 
for DDI 3, since it is: open source, freely available to everybody 
(incl. all members of the DDI Alliance), translated to several 
languages, a tool type widely used by social scientists etc.
 
Implementing the option of creating a DDI 3 document in LimeSurvey would 
benefit both open source/standard projects; LimeSurvey lack a real data 
documentation feature atm, while DDI 3 could use more support from real 
life tools (i.e. tools used by social scientists).
 
You can read more about LimeSurvey on the projects homepage: 
www.limesurvey.org <http://www.limesurvey.org>
 
Best regards,
Paw
 

Paw M. K. Gyldenkærne / AC-medarbejder
Dansk Data Arkiv / The Danish Data Archives
Islandsgade 10 / DK-5000 Odense C / Denmark
Tel.: (+45) 6548 0358 / Fax: (+45) 6611 3060
E-mail: pmg at dda.dk / http://samfund.dda.dk <http://samfund.dda.dk/>

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