As the DDI community continues to grow, an increasing number of repositories are providing their metadata in various DDI formats. However, the current landscape of DDI metadata standards usage is not well understood. Understanding this landscape is crucial as it helps identifying usage patterns, improve interoperability, and guide future developments. To address this research gap, we investigated the ...
This paper introduces the Open Data Format (ODF), a new, non-proprietary, multilingual, metadata enriched, and zip-compressed data format that meets the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. The data format is specified as a CSV file with the raw data and an XML file containing the metadata both compressed into a zip file with the .zip extension. Data files can ...