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Steven
Citron-Pousty, Ann Green, and Julie Linden Migrating Yale's Social Science Data Archive web-based catalog from a mainframe-legacy format to a SQL database made up of DDI elements entailed not only technical issues -- designing database structure, parsing ASCII records into database fields, etc. -- but philosophical issues as well. Scrutinizing the old catalog raised questions about the data we choose to collect, maintain, and catalog, and about designing the new application to capitalize on developments such as XML and more direct access to data at Yale and beyond. This presentation will focus upon the features, design, and implementation of StatCat, its relationship to the DDI, and future enhancements and expansion of StatCat into a portal to social science numeric resources. Steven Citron-Pousty Ann Green Julie Linden |