Documentation
Full written documentation is in progress. Here are the core concepts you need to understand the platform — stated plainly.
Core Concepts
Studies are the unit of work: a principal investigator describes goals, and everything else hangs off the study.
Instruments are the data-collection forms a study deploys. On Opendelphi they're modular — composed of reusable blocks of items — and they're published through consensus, not authored ad hoc.
Delphi rounds are how consensus happens: expert panels propose, rate, and refine items across structured rounds until statistical convergence is reached.
Institutes are the organizations that collect data. Each operates inside its own access boundary, gated by IRB approval and data use agreements.
What Exists Today
AI-assisted instrument drafting with citation binding, the Delphi consensus engine with convergence statistics, modular instrument deployment with eConsent, multi-institute collection with row-level isolation and audit logging, REDCap data dictionary round-trip, and de-identified CSV export with provenance.
API Reference
There is no public API yet — programmatic access is on the roadmap. The API Reference page tracks the honest status of that work.
Questions
If the docs don't answer it yet, email hello@opendelphi.org. Questions we get asked are how we prioritize what to document next.