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2001
Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Gary King, Daniel Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, Michael Krot, and Sidney Verba. 2001. “Virtual Data Center”.
A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research
Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Gary King, Daniel L Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, Michael Krot, and Sidney Verba. 2001. “A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research.” Social Science Computer Review, 19, Pp. 458–470.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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An Introduction to the Virtual Data Center Project and Software
Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Gary King, Elizabeth Kolster, M Krot, Sidney Verba, and Daniel L Kiskis. 2001. “An Introduction to the Virtual Data Center Project and Software.” Proceedings of The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Pp. 203–204. Article
Micah Altman, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Gary King, Daniel L. Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, Michael Krot, and Sidney Verba. 2001. “An Overview of the Virtual Data Center Project and Software.” JCDL ’01: First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Pp. 203-204.Abstract

Software is now superseded by Dataverse.

In this paper, we present an overview of the Virtual Data Center (VDC) software, an open-source digital library system for the management and dissemination of distributed collections of quantitative data. (see http://TheData.org). The VDC functionality provides everything necessary to maintain and disseminate an individual collection of research studies, including facilities for the storage, archiving, cataloging, translation, and on-line analysis of a particular collection. Moreover, the system provides extensive support for distributed and federated collections including: location-independent naming of objects, distributed authentication and access control, federated metadata harvesting, remote repository caching, and distributed "virtual" collections of remote objects.