compiled by the EBSS Reference Sources & Services Committee[1], a division of the Association of College and Research Libraries. We created this directory with the goal of creating a resource for librarians who regularly need to find statistics for their patrons. We welcome additions or comments. General United States Statistics, Education Statistics, Gerontology Statistics, Psychology Statistics, Social Work Statistics
a quick list of companies working to aggregate, distribute, and market data via the Internet. While there are definitely differences in their goals/business models, each of these organizations has an interest in warehousing semi-public data sources for general consumption.
National Archives and Records Administration. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has 149 files of the Censuses of Manufactures, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992. You can find the series description, as well as the file descriptions, in NARA's Archival Research Catalog (ARC), www.archives.gov/research/arc. The ARC ID for the series description is 574852, and it can be used as the keyword to retrieve the description.
Roughly the specification consists of 2 parts: 1. A schema (in essence DCAT) specifying a serialization of Dataset information, and 2. A protocol / API for getting this information from a compliant data catalogue site.