I am comparing paper-pen way of data collection with electronic way of data
collection. My study includes both quantitative and qualitative data as
well. My electronic devise is Samsung galaxy note 10.1 with Jelly bean
android. I have tried all the ways of data collection like handwriting
character recognition, keyboard and audio recording, but in real time its
quite difficult for interviewer to write narratives on tablet using
keyboard and handwriting recognition because the interview takes place in
one of the Indian languages. So, we came up wit an idea to use S-Note or
Lecture Notes apps to collect narrative data.
But my question is how to integrate these application in ODK collect.Is
there any way or any question type which allows me to use these external
Note apps??? It would be a great step ahead in cultural epidemiological
surveys, if ODK collect allows us to use the external apps for qualitative
data collection.
ODK Collect is capable of launching other apps and storing their data,
it does this by t calling an external intent (app) to return an
integer, decimal, or string value. It is often referred to as
launching 3rd party apps. The data is then returned and stored in the
form please see the examples page on ODK website to see examples of
how to modify your form. http://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/examples/
For an example of how it might work, see the BreathCounter app ( http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/downloads/list) and form
(breathTest.xml in this source repository ) for an example of an app
that returns an integer value, and a form that invokes that app.
The problem many people run into is what type of data should they
store since it can only be stored as a single value. There are a
couple of solutions to this.
Have your 'external note app' keep it's own data files that are
uploaded later by your organization. The 'external note app' could
return an unique ID to Collect that will identify the data file;
therefore, providing a link/reference to the form collect was filling
out when it launched the 'external note app' and the data collected by
the 'external note app'.
Have the 'external note app' return all it's data in a single
string that can be parsed later. One thing to watch out for is to make
sure you set your form definition to longer strings that don't get
truncated at 255 characters. Please refer to the Datastore String
Length section on the form design guidelines webpage http://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/guidelines/
Cheers,
Waylon
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Joseph wrote:
> Dear Mitch and Yaw,
>
> I am comparing paper-pen way of data collection with electronic way of data
> collection. My study includes both quantitative and qualitative data as
> well. My electronic devise is Samsung galaxy note 10.1 with Jelly bean
> android. I have tried all the ways of data collection like handwriting
> character recognition, keyboard and audio recording, but in real time its
> quite difficult for interviewer to write narratives on tablet using keyboard
> and handwriting recognition because the interview takes place in one of the
> Indian languages. So, we came up wit an idea to use S-Note or Lecture Notes
> apps to collect narrative data.
>
> But my question is how to integrate these application in ODK collect.Is
> there any way or any question type which allows me to use these external
> Note apps??? It would be a great step ahead in cultural epidemiological
> surveys, if ODK collect allows us to use the external apps for qualitative
> data collection.
>
> Thank you
>
> Joseph
> Swiss Tropical and Public health institute
>
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