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Dekker In this presentation we want to report on best practices and pitfalls during the development and construction of a new back office system for metadata. The release of the DDI-standard encourages standardisation of metadata collection and presentation. For the latter there are front-ends like NESSTAR and WEB-ILSES. For the creation of metadata according to the DDI-standard many archives and data organisations face severe problems in organising their (existing) metadata into a DDI format. Basically, their metadata are stored in a custom-made (relational) database. At the Dutch Scientific Statistical Agency we developed a new relational database WSADelfi according to DDI-standards, and capable of importing XML-files into the database (e.g. by using SPSS2DDI). Besides capturing the metadata the database also takes care of orderings, secrecy statements, and other administrative data. Ron Dekker |