Hello,
As DHIS 2 becomes increasingly popular, it becomes more and more urgent to be able to import metadata and data from other systems.
We have had discussions of using a Extract, transfer, load tools (e.g. Kettle/Pentaho Data Integration) - in which case they probably should be embedded in some way?
Ola and I just came up with a simple format now which we think could represent many types of data “out there”. That is, people should be guided in transforming their data into a simple tabular format, which could then be read by DHIS.
We have updated an existing blueprint:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/import-data
As an alternative approach could be to require people to convert their data to SDMX or DXF, it would be good to have everyone’s thoughts on this.
Knut