• Presentations
  • Relation Browser by Gary Marchionini, Junliang Zhang, and Jon Elsas
  • User Interface Themes by Catherine Plaisant, Bill Kules, and Ben Shneiderman
  • Glossary Update: User Study, Symposium, and More! by Stephanie W. Haas
  • Towards Metadata Tools for Agency Use by Carol Hert 
     

May 14, 2004 Meeting

• Agenda
  
• Discussion Questions
  • Vision and Architecture
    • What is needed to get buy-in from the agencies? Is this viable?
    • What is required to implement? What are the crucial milestones?
      
  • Metadata
    • What metadata schemes and procedures are in place in your agency?
    • How best can these schemes and procedures be coordinated across agencies?
    • How can we measure progress?
      
  • User Help
    • How can we move toward implementing glossary, animations, etc. in agencies?
    • What are the challenges of putting up glossary entries in agencies? E.g., do agencies want all statistical definitions on their site or only definitions specific to the agency?
    • What other kinds of problems do you see that help tools could/should address?
    • How can we evaluate effectiveness? How do agencies now measure effectiveness?
      
• Background Materials 
  • Toward Digital Government: The Case of Government Statistics by Gary Marchionini
  • Vision Statement for the Statistical Knowledge Network by Stephanie W. Haas, Carol A. Hert, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant, and Ben Shneiderman
  • Open Statistics: Envisioning a Statistical Knowledge Network by Ben Shneiderman
  • Metadata for the SKN: Philosophy, Progress, and Future Directions by Sheila Denn, Dan Gillman, Carol A. Hert, Jung Sun Oh, and Cristina Pattuelli
  • Issues in the Transfer of Help Tools to Government Agencies: The Example of the Statistical Interactive Glossary by Stephanie W. Haas

December 5, 2003 Meeting

• Attendees at the December 5 meeting (requires project password)
  
• Agenda
  
• Presentations
  • Overview by Gary Marchionini, Stephanie Haas, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, and Carol Hert
  • The GovStat Ontology and DTD by Sheila Denn
  • Current Directions for GovStat Metadata Efforts by Carol Hert
  • Glossary Update by Stephanie Haas
  • Machine Learning from Information Architecture by Miles Efron
  • University of Maryland Overview by Catherine Plaisant
  • Promoting Universal Usability through Multilayer Interface Design by Ben Shneiderman
  • Visualizing Categorized Search Results by Bill Kules
  • The Challenge of Missing and Uncertain Data in Information Visualization by Cyntrica Eaton
  • Sonification of Government Statistics Using Dynamic Choropleth Maps for Blind Access by Haixia Zhao
    
    

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