[Repec-data] A first proposal

['Christian Zimmermann']

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Christopher Baum wrote:

> That's not what I read into Christian's statement
>
>> My suggestion would be to have in such a case a "series" (in the sense
>> of a collection) OECD MEI, and have each individual "time series" French
>> GDP, French Inflation etc indexed with a separate template.
>
>
> By the way it gets worse, as in many databases the same series is listed multiple times at different timeseries frequencies. I am currently using the daily 5-year swap rate from FRED; that series has a different acronym (and thus looks like a different series) than the weekly, monthly, quarterly... measure of the same economic concept.

In this particular case, we can aggregate this in one template with 
several File-URLs, or not.

Note that OECD, if I understood it right, intends to index even the tables 
in its publications.

>
> Kit
>
> On Aug 29, 2013, at 3:06 PM, "David K. Levine" <david at dklevine.com>
> 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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