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Michelle Edwards, Ph.D. Would you like to provide your users with the opportunity to search documentation accompanying your datasets - but find it near impossible to accomplish this efficiently and effectively? At the University of Guelph, we undertook the task of converting our HTML metadata files to DDI compliant Codebooks, using tools suggested by the DDI community. The first task was the selection of XML tags to include in our codebooks. XSL stylesheets were then designed and developed to retrieve data from the XML files. A separate stylesheet was developed for each section of the codebook and displayed on the Web in an HTML format using the SAXON program. A template HTML page was developed to display links to codebook sections, which allow users to select and view codebook contents. The final step to developing the prototype was a search engine, which uses the SGREP function in UNIX. |