C2Metadata test files
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) George Alter, ICPSR
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Project Citation:
Alter, George. C2Metadata test files. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-08-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120642V1
Project Description
Summary:
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The C2Metadata (“Continuous Capture of Metadata”)
Project automates one of the most burdensome aspects of documenting the
provenance of research data: describing data transformations performed by
statistical software. Researchers in
many fields use statistical software (SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, Python) for data
transformation and data management as well as analysis. Scripts used with statistical software are
translated into an independent Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL),
which serves as an intermediate language for describing data
transformations. SDTL can be used to
add variable-level provenance to data catalogs and codebooks and to create
“variable lineages” for auditing software operations. This repository provides examples of scripts and metadata
for use in testing C2Metadata tools.
Funding Sources:
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National Science Foundation (ACI-1640575)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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metadata;
data provenance;
data sharing
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