Data Web

Data Web is a government open source project that was started in 1995 to develop open source framework that networks distributed statistical databases together into a seamless unified virtual data warehouse.

Originally funded by the U.S. Census Bureau, with participation at various times by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control, Harvard University and other non-profits. The software provides an open source service-oriented architecture that pulls data from different data base structures and vendors that normalizes it into a standard stream of data. The normalized stream is intelligent and supports standard transformations, has the intelligence to understand how to geographically map itself correctly using the correct vintage of political geography, understands standard code-sets so that data can be combined in statistical appropriate ways, understands how weight survey data appropriately, understands variance and other appropriate statistical behaviors.