[Repec-data] A first proposal

[David K. Levine]

presumably allowing for missing observations, so the metadata will indicate which years are available, or which cross-sectional units, or at least indicate how that is information can be retrieved.

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I believe the proposal was one template per n-dimensional array.

----- On 8/29/2013 11:06 am repec-data at lists.ope wrote -----

Christian,

This does not make sense to me: the notion of creating one template per time series in a dataset. For instance:

> Federal Reserve Economic Data
> 
> Download, graph, and track 
> 148,000 US and international time series from 59 sources.


Would you suggest that if we include the FRED database, we should have 148,000 templates describing its contents?

Thanks
Kit

On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:41 PM, 'Christian Zimmermann' <zimmermann at stlouisfed.org>
 wrote:

> Let me throw in an example.

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