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Towards a standard for the description of historical datasets
[journal article]
Abstract Several countries are planning a data-archive facility
for historical datasets. In the archives the data will be
extensively documented. A standardized way of describing
the machine readable datasets will facilitate the exchange
of information. The Standard Study Description Scheme
used at the ... view more
Several countries are planning a data-archive facility
for historical datasets. In the archives the data will be
extensively documented. A standardized way of describing
the machine readable datasets will facilitate the exchange
of information. The Standard Study Description Scheme
used at the long existing social science data-archives is - in
unaltered form - not applicable to historical datasets.
There are many similarities between social scientific datasets
and historical datasets. It is useful for historians to use
a documentation standard that can be exchanged with the
standards in use at social science data-archives. At the same
time the specific demands of the historical datasets should
be taken into consideration.... view less
Keywords
science of history; documentation system; information system; data; data collection method
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives
Method
documentation
Document language
English
Publication Year
1989
Page/Pages
p. 89-117
Journal
Historical Social Research, 14 (1989) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.14.1989.1.89-117
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed