Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network
Project Meeting
December 5, 2003
9:00-12:30
BLS Room 8
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9:00 Introductions and
Defining the SKN (Gary
Marchionini)
Vertical
integration
Searching for government information in academic libraries study
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9:15 Ontology and
Metadata (Sheila
Denn)
Ontology as top down
driver
Metadata DTD
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9:30 Future Metadata
Directions (Carol Hert)
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9:40
Interfaces to Data (Gary
Marchionini)
Relation Browser+ (Junliang
Zhang)
Demo
User study
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9:55
Glossary (Stephanie Haas)
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10:10 Contextualizer
(Gary Marchionini)
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10:15
Metadata Discovery (Miles Efron)
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10:30 Break
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10:45 Update on Help
(multi-layer design, use of recorded demos), Treemaps for Search
(Catherine Plaisant and
Ben
Shneiderman)
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11:00
Facilitating Search with Search History (Bill Kules)
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11:15
Update Visualization of Missing and Uncertain Data (Cyntrica
Eaton)
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11:25
Improving Access to Georeferenced Statistical Data for Blind Users (Haixia
Zhao)
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11:40 Discussion and Next Steps
–
Pilot projects in
agencies?
-
SKN architecture: centralized vs.
distributed?
- Ideas for extensions to state and local
data
- Symposia for spring
2004?
- Conferences and
papers
- Next all-project meeting
(May 14, 2004??)
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12:30 Adjourn
