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May 2008: Final DExT project report to the JISC plus report appendices.

April 2008: The DExT final report from the Quantitative DExT project, undertaken by Pascal Heus of ODaF is now available. The DDI-DExT application is available for download from the project repository on ODaF Forge. Two packages are made available: the main DDI-DExT application and the SPSS Reader. More details on the DDI-DExT application can be found at the DDI Alliance Tools web site.

March 2008: The final schema (version 3) to be created under the DExT JISC award, associated documentation and XML instance files are all now available from the DExT Schema page.

October 2007: Versions 1 and 2 of the draft QuDex schema were available for comment on the DExT WIKI, now taken down. The previous schema versions plus change notes are available on request.

February 2007: In order to assess the different metadata schemas that are relevant to the description of qualitative data resources, a brief comparison of metadata schemas was produced:

February 2007: A similar comparison has been compiled to compare key CAQDAS functionality that is relevant for any future import and export functionality to a middle-ground non-proprietary format:

 

Presentations about DExT:

DEXt brochure, 2007

Bhat, A., L'Hours, H. and Corti, L. (2007) Data Exchange and Conversion Utilities and Tools (DExT), presented to meeting of CAQDAS software vendors at the CAQDAS Conference 2007, Egham, Surrey.

At the software vendors meeting an overview of the basic models for data exchange was provided. The software vendors have agreed to discuss which basic aspects of functionality might be common across packages. A WIKI was set up for discussion on this issue.

Bhat, A., Corti, L. and L'Hours, H. (2007) Data Exchange and Conversion Utilities and Tools (DExT), presented at ODaF meeting and ASC Annual Conference, September 2007, St Helens, CA, USA.

Dext team (2007) DExT poster, presented at UK Data Archive 40th Anniversary, October 2007, Colchester, Essex and other ESDS and UK Data Archive events.

Dext team (2007) DExT handout, presented at UK Data Archive 40th Anniversary, October 2007, Colchester, Essex and other ESDS and UK Data Archive events.

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