Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Gary King, Daniel L. Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, M. Krot, and Sidney Verba. "A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research," Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Winter, 2001): Pp. 458-470, copy at http://gking.harvard.edu/files/abs/vdcwhitepaper-abs.shtml (Article: PDF).

Abstract

The Virtual Data Center (VDC) software is an open-source, digital library system for quantitative data. We discuss what the software does, and how it provides an infrastructure for the management and dissemination of disturbed collections of quantitative data, and the replication of results derived from this data.

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