Colectica DDI Validation Tools

The desktop editions of the Colectica DDI tools contain DDI validation features. These tools provide first and second level DDI 3 validation as described below.

To try out Colectica's DDI validation features, download the free Colectica Reader and some DDI samples.

First Level Validation

• Validate DDI files against the DDI 3.1 schema

Second Level Validation

Identification

• Detect identifiable items without an assigned identifier
• Detect lack of an agency identifier at the top-level instance
• Detect duplicated identifiers within a single maintainable
• Detect invalid DDI URNs
• Detect maintainable items without a specified agency identifier

Referencing

• Detect references that point to non-existent objects
• Detect references without an identifier specified
• Detect ambiguous references
• Detect references that do not specify agency identifiers
• Detect references that do not specify version numbers

Versioning

• Detect versionable items without assigned versions