[Repec-data] A first proposal

[David K. Levine]

Not entirely sure I follow that. So: thinking of a dataset as a bunch of related tables it seems like we want one type of metadata to describe the dataset which seems to be what Christian proposed. Then I understood we should have a second type of metadata to describe what is are in the tables (at least for those datasets that do in fact consist of a bunch of related tables). The thing is, the tables might be in one file, one per file, or several per file with a number of different files. Perhaps we need three levels - Christian's, the overall metadata for the dataset, a second describing how the data is distributed into files, and a third for describing a table?

----- On 8/29/2013 07:32 am repec-data at lists.ope wrote -----

  David K. Levine writes

> With the second file being optional. 

  If we in priniciple approve the idea of a datasets and datafiles
  as distinct describable enties where a dataset is a hierarchical
  grouping of datafile, we have, within the ReDIF world, two options
  of implementatation. We can can have datafiles as a cluster of 
  a datset (as David seems to suggest) or we can have different
  templates for both. It is the latter that I had in mind, even
  though I don't have strong opposition to the former. In the former,
  we can not have subclusters since we are already in a cluster.

> I like that idea.

  Thank you.
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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel     

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