diff --git a/doc/release-notes/8778-harvester-ddi-exporter.md b/doc/release-notes/8778-harvester-ddi-exporter.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e19216f18af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/8778-harvester-ddi-exporter.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+DDI exporter was made harvestable with dataDscr and fileDscr included.
+DDI label was replaced with DDI_full label.
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/DDIExporter.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/DDIExporter.java
index bb325226fad..01c8226715f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/DDIExporter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/DDIExporter.java
@@ -57,11 +57,7 @@ public Boolean isXMLFormat() {
     
     @Override
     public Boolean isHarvestable() {
-        // No, we don't want this format to be harvested!
-        // For datasets with tabular data the <data> portions of the DDIs 
-        // become huge and expensive to parse; even as they don't contain any 
-        // metadata useful to remote harvesters. -- L.A. 4.5
-        return false;
+        return true;
     }
     
     @Override
diff --git a/src/main/java/propertyFiles/Bundle.properties b/src/main/java/propertyFiles/Bundle.properties
index f7b46c308f5..4ec17311117 100644
--- a/src/main/java/propertyFiles/Bundle.properties
+++ b/src/main/java/propertyFiles/Bundle.properties
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ dataset.editBtn.itemLabel.deleteDataset=Delete Dataset
 dataset.editBtn.itemLabel.deleteDraft=Delete Draft Version
 dataset.editBtn.itemLabel.deaccession=Deaccession Dataset
 dataset.exportBtn=Export Metadata
-dataset.exportBtn.itemLabel.ddi=DDI
+dataset.exportBtn.itemLabel.ddi=DDI_full
 dataset.exportBtn.itemLabel.dublinCore=Dublin Core
 dataset.exportBtn.itemLabel.schemaDotOrg=Schema.org JSON-LD
 dataset.exportBtn.itemLabel.datacite=DataCite