Journal of National Fisheries University

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Journal of National Fisheries University Volume 57 Issue 3
published_at 2009-02

Applying XML standards to the Fishery Census codebook

漁業センサスの電子化におけるXML標準の利用について
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Social research data are often distributed with the research metadata such as research areas, definitions of research concepts, layouts of physical data, etc. The collection of these meta information for a research is called a codebook. Now that we know the usefulness of electric data of a research, why don't we computerize the codebook, too? In this paper, we discuss standards for describing a codebook, and apply DDI 3 , a new XML-based candidate of the standard, to the codebook of the Fishery Census of Japan. We argue what we need to put DDI 3 (or other candidates) to practical use in social sciences.
Creator Keywords
Data
Data collections
Census
Surveys
Data processing