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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Christian and friends,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">We have two questions:</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">1. Does your proposal apply at the dataset level or at an individual time-series level? We have different metadata for each.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">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 </font><a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">ttp://www.ddialliance.org/</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">. For our data catalog, we first looked at W3C's DCAT standard (</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://www.dcat.org">http://www.dcat.org</a></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">), but the currently used matadata may not be exactly the same. I will come back to you on that.</font><br>
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<tt><font size="2">On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Christopher Baum wrote:<br>
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> That's not what I read into Christian's statement<br>
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>> My suggestion would be to have in such a case a "series" (in the sense<br>
>> of a collection) OECD MEI, and have each individual "time series" French<br>
>> GDP, French Inflation etc indexed with a separate template.<br>
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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.<br>
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In this particular case, we can aggregate this in one template with <br>
several File-URLs, or not.<br>
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Note that OECD, if I understood it right, intends to index even the tables <br>
in its publications.<br>
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> Kit<br>
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> On Aug 29, 2013, at 3:06 PM, "David K. Levine" <david@dklevine.com><br>
> wrote:<br>
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>> I believe the proposal was one template per n-dimensional array.<br>
>><br>
>> ----- On 8/29/2013 11:06 am repec-data@lists.ope wrote -----<br>
>><br>
>> Christian,<br>
>><br>
>> This does not make sense to me: the notion of creating one template per time series in a dataset. For instance:<br>
>><br>
>>> Federal Reserve Economic Data<br>
>>><br>
>>> Download, graph, and track<br>
>>> 148,000 US and international time series from 59 sources.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Would you suggest that if we include the FRED database, we should have 148,000 templates describing its contents?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks<br>
>> Kit<br>
>><br>
>> On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:41 PM, 'Christian Zimmermann' <zimmermann@stlouisfed.org><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Let me throw in an example. Take the OECD Main Economic Indicators. You can structure them in various ways:<br>
>>><br>
>>> OECD MEI<br>
>>> -> GDP<br>
>>> --> France<br>
>>> --> Germ<br>
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