[Repec-data] A first proposal

[David K. Levine]

Then I think entity-name/class needs to be handled in a more flexible way.

taking the example

US GDP would have Entity-Class: US and Entity-Name: United States

first I think the Entity-Class should be "Country" not "US"
second, there needs to be a place to indicate "GDP" plus indicate if it is nominal, real, PPP adjusted, what the base year is for price adjustment and so forth

can we allow repeated entries, with sequential Entity-Class/Entity-Name pairs be associated, so

Entity-Class: Country
Entity-Name: United States

Entity-Class: Time Series
Entity-Name: GDP

Entity-Class: Units
Entity-Name: real 1966 PPP adjusted dollars

----- On 8/30/2013 12:25 am repec-data at lists.ope wrote -----

Yes, as long as appropriate metadata is provided. Hence the need to define 
it adequately.


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

> So then the idea would be for software to provide the higher level organization by reading the templates and allowing them to be searched?
>
> ----- On 8/29/2013 11:20 am repec-data at lists.ope wrote -----
>
> 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, ne

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