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The Virtual Data Center

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Fall 2004 Project Briefings / The Virtual Data Center

December 1, 2004

Micah Altman
Associate Director, Harvard-MIT Data Center
Harvard University

The Virtual Data Center (VDC) provides a complete, open-source, digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange, and citation of virtual collections of quantitative data. VDC functionality provides everything necessary to maintain and disseminate an individual collection of research studies, including facilities for the storage, archiving, cataloging, translation, and dissemination of each collection. On-line analysis is provided, powered by the R Statistical environment. The system provides extensive support for distributed and federated collections including: location-independent naming of objects, distributed authentication and access control, federated metadata harvesting, remote repository caching, and distributed
“virtual” collections of remote objects.

http://thedata.org/

Factsheet available at
http://thedata.org/uploads/Main/VDCfactsheet.pdf

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, E-Science, Metadata
Tagged With: CNI2004fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

 

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