Data Sites (Overview)
(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/data/)
- Population Data Sites
- Regional Information
Systems
- General Census
Data Sites
- Pacific Northwest Data
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WORLD AND NON-U.S. DATA
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The Social Science Dream Machine:
Resource discovery, analysis and delivery on the
Web
by
Jostein Ryssevik - Norwegian Social Science Data
Services and
Simon Musgrave - UK Data Archive
Paper given at the IASSIST Conference, Toronto,
May 1999
The technologies to build Virtual Data Libraries, where large amounts of
statistical data are made easily available for broad and diverse
groups of users, are now at hand. NESSTAR (Networked Social Science Tools
and Resources), a joint development project between the
Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD), UK Data Archive and the
Danish Data Archive (DDA), is an example of how these
emerging technologies can be used. The aim of the project is to develop a
common interface on the Internet to the data holdings of a
large number of providers and disseminators of statistical information
world-wide. By means of NESSTAR, users are able to: 1) locate
multiple data sources across national boundaries, 2) browse detailed
metadata about these data 3) analyse and visualise data online,
and 4) download the appropriate subsets of data in one of a number of
formats for local use. The system includes advanced user
authentication procedures to prevent unauthorised use of data.
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