Access to Nesstar Servers. How to access the Nesstar server.  

Best Practices Local copy of the BPD in English. The goal of this document is to include the best practices for DDI so there will be consistency in marking up the surveys

Data Server file. This document aim to the user to know how the filesystem is organize on the Z: drive and help also to create each files or folders with following a naming convention. See also File Naming Convention.

Document sur les pratiques exemplaires. French version of the BPD.

The current Development version of this document is on S:\Gsg - SciencesSociales\ddi-projects\best_practices\Guides-BPD_and_how-to and the production location is on Z:\data\markit_documentation\documentation

File Naming Convention. This document aims to define a common set of rules and conventions to be used in the naming of files and folders, including multi-level folders, housed on the Library’s GSG data server.

Nesstar Publisher User Guide. The Nesstar Publisher is a data and metadata authoring tool that is used to prepare and publish survey data, tabular (cube) data and other materials for the Nesstar system.

Nesstar Templates. A collection of Nesstar template to ease the publishing to the server process. the files are on Z:data/odesi/templates

Publishing Microdata to Using Nesstar Publisher 4.X (*updated Aug. 2015*) How to use Nesstar Publisher.

Publishing to Quick Guide (*updated Aug. 2015*) A Quick Guide version of How to use Nesstar Publisher.

Variables Groups. Variables Groups about GSS (general Social Survey) and others

Detailed flowchart for publishing a survey. A detailed flowchart that shows how to publish a survey.

Flowchart for publishing a survey. An overview with not many details of how to publish a survey to ODESI.