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Bibliographical Metadata of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of State
Sub-Agency
Category	Other
Date Released	15-Jan-2010
Date Updated	15-Jan-2010
Time Period	years
Frequency	as needed
Description	The Office of the Historian is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official historical documentary record of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. The dataset that the Office of the Historian is submitting is the raw bibliographical metadata for the nearly 500 volumes in this series published since 1861. Each record in the dataset contains a volume's title, year of publication, years covered by the volume, summary, and links to websites that offer these volumes online or in print, among other metadata items. (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Research
Keywords	foreign relations, FRUS, foreign policy, diplomacy, foreign affairs
Unique ID	1431

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	http://history.state.gov/open/frus-metadata
Agency Program Page	http://history.state.gov/
Agency Data Series Page	http://history.state.gov/open/frus-metadata

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	Department of State
Granularity	national and international
Geographic Coverage	worldwide

Data Description

Collection Mode	person/computer
Data Collection Instrument	person/computer
Data Dictionary/Variable List	http://history.state.gov/open/frus-metadata

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://history.state.gov/open/frus-metadata
Additional Metadata

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