@article {AltAndDig01b,
	title = {An Overview of the Virtual Data Center Project and Software},
	journal = {JCDL {\textquoteright}01: First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {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	Software is now superseded by Dataverse.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.

},
	author = {Micah Altman and Leonid Andreev and Mark Diggory and Gary King and Daniel L. Kiskis and Elizabeth Kolster and Michael Krot and Sidney Verba}
}
