Colectica Announces Release of Version 7.7

Colectica, a leading provider of data documentation and management solutions, is thrilled to announce the release of Colectica 7.7. This latest version delivers major advancements across the Colectica Repository, Portal, Designer, Questionnaires, Workflow, and SDK, further strengthening metadata management, interoperability, and usability for researchers and data professionals worldwide.

The new release of Colectica provides the most stable, accurate, standards-compliant, and enterprise-ready research data documentation software available. Colectica 7.7 builds on research community best practices and introduces full support for the DDI Codebook 2.6 schema, expanded localization in German and French, powerful new metadata mapping tools, and enhanced export capabilities.

Major new features and changes include:

• Support for DDI Codebook 2.6 schema in Designer and SDK
• Improved localization with complete German support across Portal
• Enhanced Repository CLI exports with new options
• Portal usability improvements
• Designer enhancements including additional French translations, improved custom field handling, and new feature flags for enterprise control
• Security updates for various Microsoft CVEs, HtmlSanitizer CVE-2026-25543 and MailKit CVE-2026-30227
• Hundreds of new features and improvements which are highlighted in the changelog

All users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the latest release.

Colectica 7.7 continues to uphold the ISO/PAS 25955:2026 (Data Documentation Initiative, DDI) standard, ensuring seamless metadata interoperability across platforms. With performance optimizations, enhanced security, expanded localization, and powerful new metadata tools, this release empowers researchers, data managers, and institutions to document, share, and discover data with even greater ease and precision.

"We’re excited to deliver Colectica 7.7, which reflects our ongoing commitment to open standards and the evolving needs of the global research community," said Dan Smith, Co-founder of Colectica. "From DDI Codebook 2.6 support and new Metadata Input Sheets to improved localization and enterprise-grade security, this release makes high-quality data documentation more powerful, accessible, and efficient than ever."

The new Colectica 7.7 release is available now for both software evaluation and to current customers. If you would like to try Colectica free of charge please request a Colectica evaluation. Colectica consists of several software tools.

• Colectica Repository: A centralized, version-controlled metadata storage system based on ISO/PAS 25955 (DDI) and ISO/IEC 11179 (Metadata registries) that tracks every change and supports collaborative workflows across teams. It integrates seamlessly with Colectica Portal to publish, search, and share metadata online, ensuring that your data documentation is always current and accessible.
• Colectica Designer: A robust tool for documenting the full survey lifecycle—from designing methodologies and instruments to detailing questions, variables, and datasets. Whether you’re managing repeated, longitudinal, or standalone studies, Designer streamlines the creation and maintenance of comprehensive survey documentation.
• Colectica SDK: A developer-friendly kit that provides ready-made access to the DDI information model. It offers libraries for reading, writing, and validating DDI-compliant metadata, enabling you to integrate advanced metadata processing capabilities into your Colectica extensions and custom applications with minimal effort.
• Colectica Questionnaires: An intuitive, DDI-based survey specification tool that allows you to visually design surveys and automatically generate multiple outputs—including code, paper forms, and standardized documentation. This ensures rapid design iterations and consistent survey deployment across various platforms.
• Colectica Workflow: A robust metadata publication tool designed for large organizations, Colectica Workflow manages the process of publishing metadata across multiple repositories. It allows users to submit publication requests while giving administrators the ability to review and approve these requests. Additionally, the system applies filters during data transfers between repositories—such as from a secure internal repository to a public one—to ensure that sensitive information remains protected.

All of these products use Open Standards to allow for interoperability with other tools. Colectica products, training on Open Standards, documentation, and customized software solutions are available through https://www.colectica.com .

A new release of Colectica Reader, the free viewer for DDI data documentation, and Colectica for Excel are also available to the general public.

About Colectica

Colectica® was launched in 2010 as an easy-to-use platform that helps you design, explain, and share your statistical research. Using common open data standards, Colectica makes it simple to record all the important details about your surveys, studies, or data collections so that anyone reviewing your data project understands its background and context. Whether you work in government statistics, survey research, a data archive, or any field that handles a lot of data, Colectica provides practical tools and services to help you manage and share your information, in a standard format, now and in the future.

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