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As someone who regularly works with such data sets, I would find such a catalog very helpful. Being able to query the meta data set would help one quickly answer all sorts of questions. Examples: "what sets have data available from 2000-2010", "which data sets are presented by ZIP code", etc. I also might want to regularly check for updates and automatically download updated data to a local database for research.

user82096
– user82096

2013-03-02 10:09:39 +00:00
Commented Mar 2, 2013 at 10:09
I updated the question to answer your query, why should this data be structured? I agree with @dan1111's answer also.

Jim DeLaHunt
– Jim DeLaHunt

2013-03-03 08:33:34 +00:00
Commented Mar 3, 2013 at 8:33

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