RevisitingOpenDataKitforFieldworkTeaching

EFLWorkshop:8th September2017

PhilWheeler,SchoolofEnvironment,EarthandEcosystem

Sciences,TheOpenUniversity

Whygomobile?(Therearealsodisadvantagestoconsider…)

‘Cleaner’,quickerworkflow• Reducetranscribing

errors• Savetime• Reducedataloss?• Linktoportabletech

Bettersharing• Constrainbehaviour• Managegroupdata

collection• Sharedata

https://opendatakit.org/about/deployments/

Advantagesof‘mobile’:3Scenarios

• 1)Managing(group)datacollection

Advantagesof‘mobile’:3Scenarios

• 2)Gettingbettersupervision

Advantagesof‘mobile’:3Scenarios

• 1+2)Overseeing(orbeingoverseen),managingandtrouble-shootingremotegroupdatacollection.Developinganalysisinparallel.

TheODKSystem

ODKCollect

ODKAggregate

XLSFORM

ManagingformsandData

• ODKAggregate– Serversoftwareforformanddatamanagement.

– Underpins3rd partyservices.• E.g http://ona.io

• ODKBriefcase– Forlocalmanagementofformsanddataonyourcomputerifyoudon’tneed/havenetworkaccess.

XForms

• AnXMLformatdesignedforcollectingdatafromwebforms.

• XML(ExtensibleMarkup Language)– Astandardmarkup languagefortellingsoftwarehowtodisplayadocument.

• ODKCollect=xforms clientforAndroid.– anappwhichdisplaysanxform onyourAndroiddeviceandallowsyoutoenterdataintoittobeuploadedtoaserver.

XLSForms

• Atoolforusers notjustconsumers

• 1spreadsheet,3worksheets,3columns

Thesurvey worksheetcontainsthesurveyquestionsThechoices worksheetcontainsanyoptionsforquestionswhereaselectionfromalistisrequiredThesettings worksheetcontainsaformidandname.

DatatypesXLSForm Standarddatatypes

text

integer

decimal

select_one

select_multiple

geopoint (GPSlocation)image(takeaphoto)audio(recordsound)video(recordvideo)etc.

datetimedeviceidetc.

Pluslotsmore

+basiccode