Butler, Mark wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> I've just come across a novel data browser.
> http://nesstar.essex.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp
> Produced by Nesstar
> http://www.nesstar.com/
>
> Basically if you look at their demo (best to look at the help / FAQ about
> how to browse, it took me some time to figure out) then you'll see it stores
> lots of numeric / statistical datasets. The browser lets you navigate the
> datasets, then lets manipulate the datasets in different ways.
does it work with Mozilla/Firebird? because I'm having trouble figuring
out how it is supposed to work, but I don't know if it's the crappy
usability concept or it's just broken.
> Its mainly aimed at social science communities, but I thought it was
> interesting because of the browsing paradigm, and because the data is quite
> heterogeneous. They use DDI metadata standard - see
> http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/
>
> A similar system is being developed by the Harvard / MIT data center - see
> http://thedata.org/soft.shtml
> and see
> http://vdc.hmdc.harvard.edu/VDC/index.jsp
> for a demo.
>
> It makes the raw XML metadata files available e.g.
> http://vdc.hmdc.harvard.edu/VDC/Repository/0.1/Access?name=http://purl.theda
> ta.org/VDC/0.1/PURL/1.1.2/09092
kewl, that might be another dataset we want to add to the mix.
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