[Buildingdata] Re: Life Tables

[Giuseppe Sollazzo]

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Great pointer, Chris - I had completely missed on it!

I will give it a look.

Thanks,
G

On 01/03/12 10:49, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> 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: 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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Giuseppe Sollazzo
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Computing Services
Information Services
St. George's, University Of London
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London SW17 0RE

Email: gsollazz at sgul.ac.uk
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