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Smart Qualitative Data: Methods and Community Tools for Data Mark-Up (SQUAD) (University of Essex & University of Edinburgh)ResultsXML schema for qualitative dataIn this schema, the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) 2007, already in use at UKDA, provides study and file-level metadata. In turn, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 2007 supplies content-specific mark-up at the document level (e.g. a single interview transcript). Using the Document Type Definition (DTD) already defined by ESDS Qualidata as a base, the SQUAD project hired an expert TEI consultant, James Cummings, at Oxford University Computing Centre, to further the development of the XML schema as it relates to TEI. He produced a schema for marking-up the most typical features of qualitative data (e.g. interview transcripts, still images, audio, video, and supporting research materials). The primary purpose of the schema is to enable web display of diverse forms of qualitative data. While this project developed a basic workable demonstrator, as a beta tool, further work would be needed to make them useable for the average person preparing data (researcher or data archivist) for their own analysis or at a later stage for archiving. The schema, documentation, and example files provided by James are as follows:
Another outcome of the SQUAD project was to define a model transcript for both UKDA internal purposes and for others, usually prospective depositors, who want a consistent and standard format for their transcripts. Context output
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