1. The DASISH Questionnaire Design Documentation Tool (QDDT)
Benjamin Beuster, Hilde Orten (NSD)
EDDI16 – 8th Annual European DDI User Conference
Cologne, DE
December 6-7, 2016
SERISS: Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences
DASISH: Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities
License: CC BY 4.0 (exceptions see last slide)

2. European Social Survey (ESS)
Questionnaire
Module
Concept
Question
Response
Domain
Instrument
Workflow in the
European Social Survey (ESS)
NSD©2016
NSD©2016

3. QDDT conceptual model, DDI 3.2 based
StatementItem
ControlConstruct
Instrument
QuestionAsInInstrument
Study
Universe
Concept
QuestionItem
QuestionGrid
ResponseDomain
CodeDomain
CategoryDomain
ExternalAid
DateTimeDomain
Instruction
ScaleDomain
TextDomain
NumericDomain
IASSIST, Bergen, May 31 – June 3

7. Top level concept
Concept
Hierarchy
Sub concepts

8. Add QuestionItems

9. MissingValuesDomainReference
Question Text
CodeDomain
StructuredMixed
ResponseDomain
MissingValuesDomainReference

10. What makes the QDDT special?
Communication within the tool
Two level versioning system using RationaleCode
Timestamp compare of elements

11. Add (nested) comments

13. Make versioning easy!

14. Change
Display Layout

15. Changed to vertical display layout

16. Versioning in QDDT
Save as version!

17. Versioning in QDDT

18. Versioning in QDDT

19. Versioning history

20. Compare to previous version

23. Less
reusable items
Reuse
Question

24. 2017 Tool ready for production (Feb. 17) Add QuestionGrid
Improve the instrument
Add Publication Status
DDI 3.2 Profile
Generate PDF and DDI 3.2 XML

25. Thank you for your attention
Special thanks to:
Knut Kalgraff Skjåk, Stig Norland and Yong Liuy (NSD),
Sarah Butt, Virginia Ros (ESS HQ, City University),
Joachim Wackerow
QDDT Software presentation tomorrow while lunch time!

26. License This presentation is offered under license CC-BY 4
License This presentation is offered under license CC-BY The license does not apply to the following copyrighted material used in this presentation:
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