Colectica 7.5 Is Now Available

Colectica today announced the availability of Colectica 7.5, the latest enhancement to the world’s most popular data documentation software based on Open Standards metadata from the Data Documentation Initiative.

The new release of Colectica provides the most stable, accurate, standards compliant, and enterprise ready research data documentation software available. The support for DDI, ISO 11179, GSIM, and the GSBPM found in Colectica 7.5 are based on research community best practices from Colectica users in countries around the world.

Major new features and changes include:

  • New visualizations for Statistical Classifications
  • Support for using Statistical Classifications as variable representations
  • New content from the DDI Codebook 2.5 and DDI Lifecycle 3.3 metadata standards
  • Improved Blaise survey source code generation
  • SDK performance and memory optimizations
  • Email notifications to alert for new versions to subscribed metadata items
  • Performant automatic cross study Explore view configuration for Colectica Portal
  • Security updates for various Microsoft CVEs
  • Hundreds of new features and improvements which are highlighted in the changelog

All users are recommended to upgrade to the latest release.

“Introducing Colectica 7.5: Built for You, Inspired by Your Feedback. We’re excited to launch Colectica 7.5, our most feature-packed release yet!” said Dan Smith, partner at Colectica. “This update is driven by customer feedback, bringing powerful new capabilities designed to meet evolving needs. From enhanced metadata integration to streamlined workflows and expanded standards support, Colectica 7.5 delivers the tools you’ve asked for while maintaining the security, reliability, and comprehensive standards compliance you rely on.”

This update is driven by customer feedback, bringing powerful new capabilities designed to meet evolving needs

Dan Smith, Partner at Colectica

The new Colectica 7.5 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 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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