[Repec-data] A first proposal

['Christian Zimmermann']

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, aballivian at worldbank.org wrote:

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> Christian and friends,
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> We have two questions:
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> 1. Does your proposal apply at the dataset level or at an individual
> time-series level? We have different metadata for each.
> 2. Does it apply to survey microdata as well as to time-series? Again, we
> have different metadata for each. For microdata we use the DDI standard
> ttp://www.ddialliance.org/. For our data catalog, we first looked at W3C's
> DCAT standard (http://www.dcat.org), but the currently used matadata may not
> be exactly the same. I will come back to you on that.

We want to encompass basically anything a data provider would want to 
index. But I do not think we want to add a myriad of template types. The 
best would be to have a single data template that is flexible enough.

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> Amparo
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> Baum wrote: > That's not what I read into Christian's statement
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> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Christopher Baum wrote:
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> > That's not what I read into Christian's statement
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> In this particular case, we can aggregate this in one template with
> several File-URLs, or not.
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> Note that OECD, if I understood it right, intends to index even the tables
> in its publications.
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> > Kit
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> > On Aug 29, 2013, at 3:06 PM, "David K. Levine" <david at dklevine.com>
> > wrote:
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> >> I believe the proposal was one template per n-dimensional array.
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> >> ----- On 8/29/2013 11:06 am repec-data at lists.ope wrote -----
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> >> 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.
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> >>
> >> 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:
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> >>> 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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> >> David K. Levine
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Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
Economic Research
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