Digital Library Federation
Workshop on Social Science Data Archives
Princeton, Jan. 27-28, 1999
Taste Before You Chew:
Allowing users to browse data before downloading
Thomas Piazza
CSM Program and Survey Research Center
University of California, Berkeley
(piazza@csm.berkeley.edu)
1. Comparisons of Data Archives
with Traditional Libraries and Bookstores
2. SDA Demonstration Archive
(http://sda.berkeley.edu)
Survey Documentation and Analysis
- Browse codebook
- Run a crosstab
- Get a subset of a dataset
3. Problems faced by Data Archives
Compared with Libraries and Bookstores
4. Next steps to take