[Buildingdata] Re: Life Tables

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Rough CSV can be a nightmare-- if it's just got random comments in etc.

You probably want to start with 'data cube', which is a base for 
building your local vocab of terms.
http://publishing-statistical-data.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/specs/src/main/html/cube.html

It's not trivial, but it lets you specify each value with the various 
contexts it needs (age, gender, year) and lets you add your own too. 
I've not yet got to grips with it, but it's on my list.

On 01/03/2012 10:41, Giuseppe Sollazzo wrote:
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> Hi there,
> sorry to start with a question after being silent since I joined :-)
>
> Quick presentation: Giuseppe Sollazzo, Senior Systems Analyst for St
> George's University of London, currently involved in a number of
> projects, ranging from mobile technologies to resarch information
> systems. At the moment I'm building a data portal prototype.
>
> One of the dataset we would like to release comes from medical
> statistics: it's a collection of Life Tables, tables representing life
> expectancy for a given disease.
>
> At the moment I've been given rough CSVs, and I was wondering if
> something a little nicer can be done. Ideally, I'm looking for a RDF
> schema to tag the data, but I haven't found anything useful yet. Did
> anyone deal with anything similar before?
>
> All the best,
> Giuseppe
>
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