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The GovStat Project (http://ils.unc.edu/govstat),
an NSF-funded project housed at the
UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, will host a
statistical metadata symposium Sept. 19-20.
Guests will include Dan Gillman from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Carol
Hert from Syracuse University, Sarah Nusser from Iowa State University,
Wendy Thomas from the University of Minnesota and Catherine Plaisant from
the University of Maryland.
Topics to be discussed will include the Data Documentation Initiative
(DDI), geographic metadata, inheritance and reference in metadata schemas,
business rules and integration, and how these elements relate to the GovStat
Project's evolving metadata architecture. The goals of the symposium are
to validate a metadata schema for the project and to advance understanding
of statistical metadata issues.
The GovStat Project seeks to create an integrated model of user access
to and use of US government statistical information that is rooted in
realistic data models and innovative user interfaces. This three-year
project is a joint effort of the UNC at Chapel Hill Interaction Design Lab
and the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
This work will be completed with an eye toward the creation of a unified
Statistical Knowledge Network (SKN). The team’s vision of integration
ultimately aims to make resident-government interactions in the statistical
data realm more of a partnership rather than strictly a one-way dissemination
of information. This material is based upon work supported by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant EIA 0131824.
For more information, please contact Dr. Stephanie Haas, an associate
professor of information and library science at the UNC at Chapel Hill School
of Information and Library Science: haas@ils.unc.edu.
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