No Longer Lost in Translation

As part of the MADIERA project (Multilingual Access to Data Infrastructures of the European Research Area), the development of an eight language multi-lingual thesaurus has continued. This paper highlights the changes made within the NESSTAR publisher to make the tasks of assigning index terms from this thesaurus at study, variable group and variable level to DDI marked-up metadata both consistent and less resource intensive. The ability to easily add high quality data content to the new MADIERA system has been given greatest priority in this project, so that the eventual end-user features can be demonstrated to their best advantage. It is hoped that a prototype user interface, exploiting the power of the thesaurus, will be available in time for the IASSIST conference