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

December 6, 2002
9:00-12:30
BLS Room 9

 

Agenda: Results and Requests

Introductions (Gary Marchionini 5 min)

Status Reports, challenges and directions

     UNC (Gary 15 min.)

     UMD (Ben Shneiderman 15 min.)

Glossary work as help and as ontology (Stephanie Haas & Sheila Denn 20 min)

Online Help (Catherine Plaisant & Hyunmo Kang 20 min.)

Interfaces

     Relation Browers (Junliang Zhang and Gary Marchionini 15 min)

     Visual browser (Bill Kules and Ben Shneiderman 15 min)

     Fedstats A-Z (Irina Ceaparu 15 min)

Identifying integration challenges: scenarios, metadata user study, data flow (Carol and Stephanie 20 min.)

Next steps

     Agency participation in getting data and metadata

     Ideas for extensions to state and local

     Collaborative exchanges for Jan-June

     Conferences and papers

     Next all-project meeting

     Recommendations and Requests

 

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 11/27/2002