Prototype Internet Services for the General Social Survey

这是一个使用NCSA Mosaic进行综合社会调查的因特网服务原型。 该项目将开发一个系统，利用一般社会调查提供更好的调查数据获取途径，以落实这些综合服务，随后将扩大到其他各种调查数据集。 这些服务将提供各种便利，以超文本方式查看和搜索完整的调查文件，从数据集中提取定制和记录的摘要，进行统计分析，并通过文件传输协议传送完整或摘录的数据集。 《社会普查》是开发这一系统的理想调查材料来源，因为它是一个结构复杂、高度多样化的大型数据集，根据每一项目的出版物进行了广泛的记录，并且已经成为3000多份科学出版物和论文的基础。 根据一般社会调查开发的系统将成为标准，不仅可通过因特网提供调查数据，而且可用于新调查的研究设计和数据收集。 %%% 该项目是数字图书馆倡议的一部分，将问卷调查数据添加到可以通过因特网有效管理的信息种类中，并为国家信息基础设施作出贡献。 社会普查不仅广泛用于科学研究，而且已证明是研究生和本科生一级的优秀教学工具。 调查数据在政府和商业中被广泛使用，因此一个先进的管理和发布此类信息的系统将有助于有效的政府和经济增长。

This is a prototype Internet service for the General Social Survey employing NCSA Mosaic. The project will develop a system to provide enhanced access to survey data, using the General Social Survey for implementation of these integrated services, which will subsequently be extended to a variety of other survey data sets. These services will provide facilities for hypertext viewing and searching of complete survey documentation, customized and documented extracts from data sets, statistical analysis, and File Transfer Protocol delivery of full or extracted data sets. The General Social Survey is an ideal source of survey material to develop the system, because it is a highly diverse large dataset of complex structure, extensively documented in terms of publications based on each item, and has already been the basis of more than three thousand scientific publications and dissertations. The system developed on the General Social Survey will then become the standard not only for providing survey data over Internet, but also for research design and data collection in new surveys. %%% This project is part of the Digital Library Initiative, adding questionnaire survey data to the kinds of information that can be managed effectively over Internet and contributing to the national information infrastructure. Not only is the General Social Survey widely used in scientific research, but it has proven to be an excellent teaching tool at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Survey data are used extensively in government and commerce, so an advanced system for managing and distributing information of this kind will contribute to effective government and economic growth.