Integration of Data and Interfaces to Enhance Human Understanding of Government Statistics: Toward the National Statistical Knowledge Network NSF Grant EIA 0131824 NSF Grant EIA 0129978

Govstat Schemas

• Entity Description Schema (entDscr.xsd): This schema is designed to describe an individual document or sub-document unit (hereafter referred to as an entity).

  • Hierarchical view of Entity Description Schema.

• Concept-Value Domain Schema (concept-value.xsd): This schema is designed to describe the conceptual and value domains that are instantiated within the entities described by the Entity Description Schema above. This schema documents concepts and relationships at a higher level than the Entity Description Schema in order to allow for concepts to be related to one another across entities.

  • Hierarchical view of Concept-Value Domain Schema.

• Outline of Elements and Attributes in the GovStat Schema Version 2.0

Last Updated 7/22/2005