From hothorn@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Sat Mar  4 10:55:58 2000
From: hothorn@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Torsten Hothorn)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:55:58 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] StatDataML
In-Reply-To: <38C0363B.DDB2AEA6@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003041145450.8684-100000@boromir.ci.tuwien.ac.at>


On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> 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.
> 

I just had a short (!) look at the description of the data model and the
user guide for GESMES at http://www.ecb.int/stats/gesmes/gesmes.htm

For me it looks biased to banking problems and very dataframe/array
centric.  

> 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). 

The problem I see is that GESMES would probably be to complicated, think
of exchanging data via CORBA, which is easy (and, in our opinion,
efficient) with XML structured strings. 

> 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.
> 

agree, free software is always a benefit :-) 

Torsten

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[Rd] StatDataML
Torsten Hothorn