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

 

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network Project Meeting

May 9, 2003
9:00-12:30
BLS Room 8

•         9:00 Introductions and Review Project Goals
•         9:15 Ontology and Glossary
•         9:30 Interfaces to data
–       UMD team
•        
Update on:
     –      
Help Strategies for Complex User Interfaces
      –       FedStats page redesign study
•         Coordinated visualizations: PairTrees 
•        
Improving the Accessibility of Maps with Spatial Audio 
•        
Visualizing Missing and Uncertain Data
–       UNC team
•        
Relation Browser
•        
Automatic Slicing and Dicing
•        
DataHunter
•         10:30 Break
•         10:45 Metadata
     –      
Metadata user study
     –      
Update on metadata issues
•         11:30 Next steps and Discussion
     –       Agency assistance in getting data and metadata, agency plans for metadata and data dissemination in
        months/years ahead

    –       Usage summaries for sites (unique visitors vs repeat, etc.)
    –       Ideas for extensions to state and local
    –      
Symposia for June-August
    –      
Support for 03-04
    –      
Conferences and papers
    –      
Next all-project meeting
•         12:30 Adjourn

 

 

The GovStat Project is managed at the Interaction Design Laboratory, 
at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Last Updated 5/6/2003