Rogatus – a planned open source toolset to cover the whole lifecycle

Abstract

During the last years several different tools for DDI Lifecycle have been published. Nevertheless none of the current tools is able to cover the full lifecycle from beginning to end. This presentation wants to show a first outlook into Rogatus - an open source toolset currently in development at DIPF with support of GESIS, TBA21, OPIT, Colectica, Alerk Amin and IAB. Rogatus consists of different DDI compliant applications (e.g. Qbee - Questionnaire Builder, Cbee – Case Builder, Tbee – Translation Builder, Mbee – Metadata Builder and Rogatus Portal). Furthermore some components are re-used in other software products (e.g. IAB Metadata Management Portal). This presentation will also show how a final version of Rogatus could be combined with other well-known tools like Colectica or Questasy using DDI as standard for data exchange to show how a survey process from creating a study from the scratch, designing the instruments, performing the data collection, handling the administrative processes, curating the data, disseminating the data, publication and at last data archiving for secondary usage could be handled with individual tools.