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Haas, Stephanie W.; Pattuelli, Maria Cristina; Brown, Ron T. – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Describes the Statistical Interactive Glossary (SIG), an enhanced glossary of statistical terms supported by the GovStat ontology of statistical concepts. Presents a conceptual framework whose components articulate different aspects of a term's basic explanation that can be manipulated to produce a variety of presentations. The overarching…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Glossaries, Information Sources, Information Systems
Larson, Ray R. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996
Examines the bibliometrics of the World Wide Web based on analysis of Web pages collected by the Inktomi "Web Crawler" and on the use of the DEC AltaVista search engine for cocitation analysis of a set of Earth Science related Web sites. Looks at the statistical characteristics of Web documents and their hypertext links, and the…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis, Computer System Design, Hypermedia
Mu, Xiangming; Marchionini, Gary – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Describes a novel design of a Table Browser for casual users of statistical data. Focuses on the overall system architecture and the user interface. Describes the prototype interface and presents results of experiments testing the efficacy of the multi-threaded data flow. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Data Analysis, Information Systems
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1983
Six papers on the theme, "Administrative Libraries in a Technological World: Past, Present, and Future--A General Stocktaking and a State of the Art Report" focus on West German telecommunications and information technology and the use of data processing and other technological aids in West German administrative libraries. These papers,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Programs, Computers, Foreign Countries
Orr, David B. – 1982
The Vocational Education Data System (VEDS) data base was created as a result of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976. VEDS statistics were to be collected in the form of state-aggregate data (that is, state-level data is submitted by each state, based upon records and data collected by the state for this and other purposes); and VEDS data,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Educational Research, Information Networks
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Cruse, Patricia; DeDecker, Sherry – 1997
Information from the U.S. Government is appearing with increasing frequency on the Internet. In many cases, the Internet is the only place to locate important government information. Virtually all agencies maintain their own web pages, which include linked statistical data, news releases, and other full-text publications. In the future, more data…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Demography, Federal Government
Guittet, Christian – 1996
Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, is already making use of the new possibilities offered by the multimedia revolution and has started research to allow further progress in this direction. This paper defines interactive multimedia as the achievement of a dynamic symbiosis between several means of expression (several…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Hypermedia