[Repec-data] A first proposal

['Christian Zimmermann']

That is really up to the data provider. You want the granularity to would 
help users find what they want. To take the OECD MEI example again, users 
generally do not look for national accounts or the MEI, they look for a 
specific series of a specific country.

So yes, I would create 148,000 templates, neatly organized by data 
providers, and possibly make create several collections for some 
providers.

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, David K. Levine wrote:

> 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. Take the OECD Main Economic Indicators. You can structure them in various ways:
>>
>> OECD MEI
>> -> GDP
>> --> France
>> --> Germ
>
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