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This guide is intended to be a reference tool to microdata in data service settings at academic and research libraries. It focuses on microdata availability, data sources, and basic strategies for acquiring, using, and managing microdata files. The guide lists some key references in print; however, it is basically a web-based collection of resources. Although this guide has tried to sort out the most useful web resources in microdata acquisition and management, it has not been able to include all the major and valuable microdata sites for time being. Therefore, there is an enormous room for expansion, further improvement, and development for this web-based guide to microdata services.
As a reference point to microdata resources, the guide has referenced and linked to a variety of resources on the web. The compiler of this guide would like to thank all the people who created the resources to which the guide has referenced and linked.
The guide was compiled as the special project for Xiao Jason Yu's summer practicum with the Government Documents Library at the University of Illinois in 2001. The guide compiler would like to thank all the staff in the Government Documents Library and the office of Computing Resources for Education in the Social Sciences for the training, generous assistance, and encouragement that they have given to the compiler. Special thanks go to Professor Mary Mallory, Prof. Cheryl Malone, and Ms. Dawn Owens-Nicholson. Without the technical help from Dawn Owens-Nicholson, and the supervision and guidance from Profs. Mallory and Malone, the completion of the project would be impossible. However, all the errors in this guide are exclusively belonging to the compiler himself.
The compiler of this guide, i. e., the webmaster, Xiao Jason Yu, is an MLS graduate of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At the time the project was conducted, he was also a consultant in statistical data analysis with the CRESS of the University of Illinois. He also holds an M. A. in Anthropology. His professional interest is numeric and geospatial data services for social sciences.
Comments and suggestions in relation to the guide
are warmly welcomed. Please contact Xiao Jason Yu at xiaoyu@uiuc.edu, or
jasonxyu@excite.com.
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