Metadata Converters

The Metadata Converters project provides open source utilities that convert among various metadata formats.

The first utility converts Blaise(r) source code to DDI 3. Thank you to the National Institutes of Health and the Canada Research Data Centre Network for their support in developing this utility.

Blaise to DDI Converter

The Blaise to DDI Converter creates DDI 3 metadata from Blaise source code.

Features

The Blaise to DDI Converter creates the following DDI 3 metadata from a Blaise data model.

• Category
• CategoryScheme
• Code
• CodeScheme
• QuestionItem
• QuestionScheme
• ControlConstructScheme
• Instrument

Usage

BlaiseToDDI.exe inputFile.bla outputFile.xml

License

The Metadata Converters may be used under the terms of the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL).

Support, Enhancements, and Integration

We are happy to provide professional support, enhance the converters to work with your data, or help you integrate the converters into your systems. Please contact us and let us know how we can help.

Additional Converters

What other metadata formats would you like to convert? We are happy to hear your ideas for new converters to add to the project. Please get in touch.