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Activity Number:
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483
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Type:
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Roundtables
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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| Abstract - #305888 |
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Title:
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Metadata: Making It Work for Federal Statistics
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Author(s):
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Shawna Waugh*+ and Daniel W. Gillman
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Companies:
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Energy Information Administration and Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Address:
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, Washington, DC, ,
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Abstract:
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Metadata describe other data or processes. For users of data, metadata are the record of how those data were produced and what the data mean. This is similar to showing your work when solving a math problem. In order to understand the data a survey produces, you must know the steps that were taken. Metadata can be simple or be detailed. The more detailed, the harder it is to capture. How does an agency decide what is enough? Rather than helping the person creating it, metadata helps others understand a survey and its data. How does an agency make it worthwhile for experts to record their metadata? Users encounter different formats and structures in data sets all the time. Metadata is there to help them use the data. Does the metadata need to have the same problem? If so, metadata needs its own metadata! Metadata standards exist to solve this problem.
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