From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Fri Mar  3 22:01:31 2000
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 17:01:31 -0500
Subject: [Rd] StatDataML
References: <14527.58185.135296.986847@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Message-ID: <38C0363B.DDB2AEA6@bank-banque-canada.ca>

Fritz

Could you compare/contrast this a bit with NetCDF and  the UN/EDIFACT General
Statistical Message (GESMES ). I know almost nothing about NetCDF, but from the
little I know it seems to attempt to do a similar thing. I know a bit more about
Gesmes, and there seems to be a lot of overlap with what you are proposing.

Ten years ago, given the number of governments and organization involved, it
would have been easy to say go ahead and do something that we can use sooner (in
fact, we did). However, Gesmes is relatively advanced now, with several groups
working on implementations of a least parts of it, and governments committed to
exchanging data using it. A GNU implementation would be a real benefit to a lot
of tax payers around the world, not to mention the statistics community.

Paul Gilbert


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[Rd] StatDataML
Paul Gilbert