NADA 3.1 Released

The National Data Archive (NADA) is software designed for the cataloguing and dissemination of survey, census or other microdata documented in compliance with DDI and Dublin Core metadata standards.

Its main objective is to assist data producers to preserve the microdata they collect and to make this data available for research purposes. The application provides rich, fully searchable metadata, and controlled access to the microdata. Learn more»

Requirements

NADA is an open-source PHP application which requires installation on a server running PHP 5.2 or later with a MySQL database. Support for other common databases is being developed. The application is available in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish and is provided under the BSD license.

To get started...

Setup or locate a host (ISP) webserver running MySQL and PHP

Download NADA 3 and follow the installation instructions here

If you are upgrading from NADA 2 follow the upgrade instructions here

Upload your DDI metadata and related study materials to your catalog