# What software is available for authoring CMDI metadata?
**URL:** https://forum.clarin.eu/t/what-software-is-available-for-authoring-cmdi-metadata/476
**Category:** Metadata
**Tags:** metadata
**Created:** [13 September 2024 08:42 UTC](https://forum.clarin.eu/t/what-software-is-available-for-authoring-cmdi-metadata/476 "2024-09-13T08:42:43Z")
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### Author:  [@twagoo](https://forum.clarin.eu/u/twagoo)
#### Post date: [13 September 2024 08:42 UTC](https://forum.clarin.eu/t/what-software-is-available-for-authoring-cmdi-metadata/476/1 "2024-09-13T08:42:43Z")
There a several options for creating CMDI records “by hand” (as opposed to having CMDI generated from a primary source by a script, repository system or other software):
- An XML editor such as [oXygen](https://www.oxygenxml.com/) or a text editor or code editor with XML support, preferably with XML Schema awareness.
- In addition to oXygen, which has a commercial licence, there are also numerous free XML editors. See for example this [comparison of XML editors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_XML_editors).
- [COMEDI](http://clarino.uib.no/comedi/page) is an online CMDI editor developed within CLARINO that works with any profile.
- ~~[Arbil](https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/arbil/), the metadata editor developed at the Max Planck Instititue for Psycholinguistics supports any CMDI profile and provides powerful table-based editing.~~ **No longer maintained!**
Dedicated editors with a limited number of supported profiles:
- [CMDI Maker](http://cmdi-maker.uni-koeln.de/) from the University of Cologne
- ~~[ProFormA](http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/nalida/proforma/), part of the NaLiDa project at University Tübingen.~~ **No longer available!**
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### Author:  [@egon](https://forum.clarin.eu/u/egon)
#### Post date: [9 October 2025 14:54 UTC](https://forum.clarin.eu/t/what-software-is-available-for-authoring-cmdi-metadata/476/2 "2025-10-09T14:54:15Z")
…and the [CLARIAH CMDI Forms](https://github.com/knaw-huc/clariah-cmdi-forms) are also an option?