Proposes model to American National Standards Committee (ANSC) Z39 to serve as basis for integrated set of standards for representation, storage, and communication of bibliographic and related data. Background of ANSC Z39, description of model, benefits, relationship of existing standards to model, and implementation are discussed. Six references…

Reviews use of codes and standards for bibliographic data elements, focusing on efforts of American National Standards Institute and International Organization for Standardization. Identifiers of bibliographic entities; codes for geographic, political, and corporate entities; binary codes; script conversion; and standardization are covered.…

Discusses secondary data analysis and reanalysis of machine-readable data as supplements to traditional teaching methods in the social sciences, highlighting types of secondary data, levels of instructional use, housing data in archives, housing codebooks in library stacks, and contributions of archivists and librarians to teaching. Seventeen…

Discusses factors militating against integration of social science data archives and libraries in near future, noting usage of materials, access requisite skills of librarians, economic stability of archives, existing structures which manage social science data archives. Role of librarians, data access tools, and cataloging of machine-readable…

Considers history of data archives, which preserve machine-readable data files (MRDF) for posterity and provide services to users, and current educational scene for data archive personnel. Pros and cons of current system, a 1980 survey of managers of MRDF collections, and alternatives for future are discussed. Twenty-three references are provided.…

Introduces four models of data library development for meeting information needs for machine-readable data files--University of Florida facility, University of British Columbia Data Library, Data and Program Library Service at University of Wisconsin, and online numeric Kentucky Economic Information System at University of Kentucky. Four…