[DDI-ADG] time spreadsheet

[Wendy Thomas]

Don't know...lets see how it shakes out. Does it make sense to have all
the dates in one place except for the geography? I guess I thought that
the date in Geography was a reference to the date(s).

wendy


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, J Gager wrote:

> I purposefully omitted Geography, as we included a Date in the Geography
> structure.  Is there an issue with that?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ddi-adg-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Wendy Thomas
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:45 PM
> To: ddi-adg at icpsr.umich.edu
> Subject: [DDI-ADG] time spreadsheet
>
>
> Need to include "geographic time" in the list. This can be different
> than the data time stamp. Aggregate data is often retabulated for new
> goegraphies such as congressional districts (ex. 2000 data for 2002
> congressional district geography).
>
> Calender date: This was provided in order to allow for alternative
> calender systems particularly if relevant to the data. This is
> hypothetical but if I were collecting data related to a specific date in
> the Jewish Calender I need to know that date. This is particularly true
> if I were collecting over a number of years or months as the
> relationships between the Jewish Calender and Georgian calender shift
> and you'd never see the relationship if using only the Georgian
> calender.
>
> While this seems a bit of a stretch, we have frequently discussed the
> ability to use DDI for historical data derived from historical
> administrative records...kept in the calender of the time and place.
>
> SECURITY: version 2.0 4.3.4, 4.4.6
>
> security?    (ATT == ID, xml-lang, source, date)
>
> <!-- 4.3.4 Security (security)
> -->
> <!--
> -->
> <!-- Provides information regarding levels of access to the variable,
>       e.g., public, subscriber, need to know. The ISO standard for
>       dates (YYYY-MM-DD) is recommended for use with the date
>       attribute.
> -->
>
> <!ELEMENT security   (#PCDATA | %a.phrase; | %e.form;)*
> >
> <!ATTLIST security
>      %a.global;
>      %a.date;
> >
>
>
>
>
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Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455