[Repec-data] A first proposal

Tue Sep 3 20:28:18 UTC 2013

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http://www.datacite.org/sites/default/files/Business_Models_Principles_v1.0.pdf
http://schema.datacite.org/

Best,
Merce

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Christian Zimmermann <
zimmermann at stlouisfed.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, aballivian at worldbank.org wrote:
>
>
>> Christian and friends,
>>
>> We have two questions:
>>
>> 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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>> Zimmermann'" ---08/29/2013 06:15:18 PM---On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Christopher
>> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >>
>> >> ----- 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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Harvard University
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