FYI, these DDI records have been on the eligible list for at least two
years now... in fact, I have a standing offer from Mary Vardigan at ICPSR
to provide us with whatever test data we want (thanks to Kate
McNeill-Harman, the data services librarian who handles the MIT end of the
Harvard-MIT data center). But every time I ask if we want more/different
metadata you say no, so I haven't pursued it any further... So it's there
for the asking.
MacKenzie
At 04:36 PM 7/28/2004 -0700, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>>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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