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The CDISC ODM Checker

Including viewlet demos

CDISC logo The CDISC ODM Checker is a tool developed by XML4Pharma to check whether an ODM file conforms to the CDISC standard.

This tool is freely available for CDISC members.

Other tools for working with the CDISC set of standards

The newest version (v.0.7) of the CDISC ODM Checker is now available (June 2006).

Version 0.7 corrects a few minor bugs found in version 0.6

Full list of the new features in v.0.6

A number of demos showing how the tool works can be found here as Macromedia Flash files. If you haven't installed the Flash plugin yet, you can get it from here.

Remark that the demo files aren't small files (0.2 to 0.7 Mb), so downloading can take some time if you have a slow connection. The demos demonstrate the possibilities with the older version of the ODM Checker (v.0.4) - we try to update the movies as soon as possible.

Basics of working with the CDISC ODM Checker

This Flash animation shows the basics of how an ODM XML file can be checked against the CDISC standard.
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Checking an invalid CDISC ODM file

This demo shows what happens if an ODM file is checked which is even not valid XML. However, the file also contains some other non-conformities.

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Messages generated by the CDISC ODM Checker

Checking a non-conform CDISC ODM file

The demo shows the checking of an ODM file which has a large number of inconformities, especially in the Study section (containing the study setup). As a consequence, in the ClinicalData section (containing the clinical data) even more non-conformities are found. It is also shown how a check can be performed without checking referential integrity between Study section and ClinicalData section, i.e. performing a first, rough check without checking against the metadata.
This is especially useful when the Study section contains a good number of non-conformities, as is the case here.

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Checking an ODM file where the metadata (study definition) resides in another file

In clinical data practice, the ODM file with the study definition will surely not always be repeated in each ODM file with clinical data. This demo shows how to check a file with clinical data against the metadata (study definition) residing in another file.

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Who is using the CDISC ODM Checker ?

A number of well known companies that use our ODM Checker to validate CDISC ODM files are:

DataTrak
Eli and Lilly
The SAS Institute
Amgen
Roche

Convinced by the power of the CDISC ODM Checker ?

CDISC members can obtain the CDISC ODM Checker for free, an e-mail containing your full credentials suffices. Non-members may purchase a license. Please contact us for further details.

Companies interested in obtaining a license for incorporating the CDISC ODM Checker into their own system (e.g. as a web service), please contact us. We will be happy to make the necessary adaptions to the CDISC ODM Checker so that it fits into your own IT systems for working with the CDISC set of standards.

Contact XML4Pharma
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