The social science dream machine: Resource discovery, analysis, and delivery on the web

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 163-174

  Ryssevik, Jostein ^a   Musgrave, Simon ^b  

^a Norwegian Social Science Data Service   (Norway)

^b UK Data Archive   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data dissemination; Hyperlinking; Metadata; Online publishing; Social science data archives; Web technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035531611     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089443930101900203     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. The text can be found in Mark J. Stefik and Vinton Cerf, Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors, MIT Press, 1997.
2. The map, which also includes a section on data libraries in North America, can be found at http://www. nsd.uib.no/cessda/europe.html
3. The integrated data catalogue can be viewed athttp://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/IDC/ orhttp: // dastar.essex.ac.uk/cessda/idc/
4. NESSTAR (Networked Social Science Tools and Resources) has been funded by the Telematics Applications Programme, an activity under Directorate General XIII of the European Commission's 4th Framework Programme. More information about NESSTAR can be found at http://www.nesstar.org/
5. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) can be accessed at http://www.icpsr.umich. edu/DDI / codebook.html
6. The first version of the DDI-document type definition (DTD) was, in fact, expressed in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). It was translated to Extensible Markup Language (XML) by Jan Nielsen at the Danish Data Archive (DDA), a former member of the NESSTAR team.
7. NSDstat is a statistical package developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). More information about the software can be found at http://www.nsd.uib.no/program/nsdstat/
8. Steinmetz in the Netherlands and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in the United States have both invested heavily in documentation scanning. The user guides at the UK Data Archive can be viewed at http: //biron.essex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/doc
9. More detailed information about the relationship and synergy between the DDI and the NESSTAR project can be found in Jostein Ryssevik, Providing Global Access to Distributed Data through Metadata Standardisation the Parallel Stories of NESSTAR and the DDI, Working Paper No. 10, UN/ECE Work Session on Statistical Metadata, Geneva, Switzerland, 22-24 September 1999. The paper is available from http://www.nesstar.org/ papers/globalaccess.html
10. You will find more information about the Cheshire System at http://Cheshire.lib. berkeley. edu/
11. An unabridged version of Bush's text can found at http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/-duchier/pub/ vbush/vbush-all.shtml
12. FASTER (Flexible Access to Statistics, Tables and Electronic Resources) will run from January 2000 to January 2002 and is funded by the Information Society Technologies (1ST) Program under the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme.
13. The Virtual Data Center project can be visited at http://thedata.org/
14. The federal electronic research and review extraction tool can be accessed from http: //ferret. bis.census.gov/
15. See http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/