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ODK Overview

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ODK?

• manage mobile data collection solutions• Free• Opensource• Digital questionnaire alternative to the

ordinary questionnaire

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Core components

Build• Designer for

questionnaries/form s or survey

Collect• mobile device,

Renders the forms for data collection

Aggregate• Persisted data on a

server

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Questionnaire/Form Designers

• http://build.opendatakit.org• http://opendatakit.org/use/xlsform/• https://enketo.org/• https://github.com/UW-ICTD/xlsform.exe/blo

b/master/README.md• http://www.kobotoolbox.org/• https://code.google.com/p/purcforms/

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Data Collection

• Any phone that supports Android– Renders the Questionnaire/form/surveys– Download collect from Google play store– Download collect from Opendatakit site

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Aggregate

• Runs on Google appengine• Runs on Tomcat

• ODK vm

What it does:– Provides Questionnaires/forms/surveys– Accepts finalized submissions– Visual data– Export data– Publish data to external systems

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Technical Expertise

• Java• Python• Ruby on Rails• JavaScript, JQuery• Excel• Tomcat Administration• Google appengine { java*,python,php,go}• Git and Mercurial

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Links

For more information:• http://opendatakit.org/

Code Repository:https://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/