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ODK COLLECT

Jonathon Tai, EERI

Basic Information

� Free app for Android devices

� Website: http://www.opendatakit.org

� Hosts

� project websites using Google’s AppEngine

� Includes online database of records

�Online map interface

�Or to webservers running Tomcat with MySQL or PostgreSQL databases

� Form Generator

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Features

ODK Collect

Geo-tagging �

Map view of all points �

Photos �

Water-marking

Annotation of photos

Sketches

Audio Clips �

Video Clips �

Voice to text

Form �

(Custom-radio button and text boxes)

Three Parts

� Build

� Creating forms

� Collect

� Android app

� Download forms/collect data

� Upload data

� Aggregate

� Store data (Google AppEngine or webserver)

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Build (build.opendatakit.org)

Sign in/Create an

account

Add questions/fields

Questions/Fields:

• Text

• Numeric

• Date

• Location

• Media

• Barcode

• Choose One

• Select Multiple

• Group

• Branch

Menu Bar

Creating a Form

• Can create

simple forms

• Straight forward

• Website has

many examples

to learn from

• More complex

forms easier to

write in XML

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Publishing the Form

• Aggregate goes

to the host on

the Google

AppEngine

• Publishing XML

allows the user

to customize the

simple form

(logic,

appearance,

etc)

Publish to

Aggregate

PPublish to

XML

Creating Form in XML

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Aggregate

� Only considering the Google AppEngine here in presentation

� opendatakit.org/use/aggregate

� For installation instructions

Aggregate Front Page

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Aggregate: Site Access

• Allow anyone to

download forms and

submit data

• Create permissions

with account and

password

• data collector

• data viewer

• form manager

• site admin

Aggregate: Form Management

Add New Form

Two methods of

form uploading:

• Upload XML file

• Uploaded when

published from

build

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Collect

http://opendatakit.org/use/collect/

� Getting Forms

� Filling/Editing Forms

� Sending Data

� Deleting Saved Forms

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Settings

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Viewing Data

Visualize

• Pie Chart

• Bar Graph

• Map

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Map

Viewing Data on Map

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Exporting Data

Export

• CSV

• KML

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Golden Guardian Exercise

� goldenguardianodktest.appspot.com

� User name: GoldenGuardian

� Password: odk

� Two forms

� Detailed

� Quick