NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COMMUNITY STATISTICS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (2T63)
June Research Symposium: "The Emerging Tool Kit for NICS" (2T64)
Thursday, June 30, 2005 (2T65)
8:45 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. (2T66)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Choate Room, Washington, DC (2T67)
- Directions to The Brookings Institute (2T68)
- [ Directions for Remote Participants, Conference Call-in] (2T69)
- Participant List (2T6A)
- Use this form to give us feedback on the workshop fax to: Lisa Morales at 202-797-2965 or email to lmorales@brookings.edu. (2T6B)
AGENDA (2T6C)
Continental Breakfast - 8:00-8:45 (2T6D)
8:45-9:15 Welcome & Introduction - Andrew Reamer, Urban Markets Initiative, The Brookings Institution (2T6E)
- Overview of NICS - Pari Sabety, Urban Markets Initiative, The Brookings Institution (2T6F)
- Update on NICS Initiation Phase Activities - Pari Sabety, UMI, and Tom Kingsley, Urban Institute (2T6G)
9:15-10:00 Information Technology Research for Government Statistics (presentation) - Moderator, Valerie J. Gregg, Digital Government Partnering Group (2T6H)
- National Science Foundation's Digital Government Research Program (resource) - Lawrence E. Brandt, Program Manager (2T6I)
- Information Technology Research Opportunities for Federal Statistics (resource) - Marshall DeBerry, FedStats (2T6J)
- EmergingTechnology.gov (resource) - Susan Turnbull, co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, Chief Information Officers Council and co-chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (2T6K)
10:00-10:15 Break (2T6L)
10:15-11:15 Innovative IT Research Projects (2T6M)
- Visualizing Federal Statistics - Alan MacEachren, Director, GeoVISTA Center, Pennsylvania State University (2T6N)
- Automating Integration of Large Heterogeneous Databases - Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (2T6O)
11:15-12:30 Panel Discussion: Innovative Tools to Protect Data Confidentiality - Moderator, Cynthia Taeuber, University of Baltimore (2T6P)
- Data Swapping and Other Data Confidentiality Tools - Alan Karr, Director, National Institute for Statistical Sciences (2T6Q)
- Building Synthetic Versions of Confidential Social Science Datasets - John Abowd, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Cornell University (2T6R)
- New Approaches For Handling Confidential Geospatial Information - Jon Sperling, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2T6S)
12:30-1:30 Lunch and Networking (2T6T)
1:30-3:00 Innovative IT Research Projects (continued) (2T6U)
- Tool Kits for Assessing Database Management and Integration Capabilities - Sharon Dawes, Director, Center for Technology in Government, State University of New York, Albany (2T6V)
- UrbanSim: Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Simulation - Alan Borning, Center for Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis, University of Washington (2T6W)
- Analysis of Social Networks in Digital Government - Noshir Contractor, Director, Science of Networks in Communities, the Center of University of Illinois, urbana Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2T6X)
3:00-3:15 Break (2T6Y)
3:15-4:00 Discussion: Implications of Today's Presentations for NICS - Moderator, Andrew Reamer, Urban Markets Initiative, Brookings Institution (2T6Z)
- Brand Niemann, EPA and Chair, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (2T70)
- FEA DRM Schema Specification (FEA DRM Draft Version 0.1) (2T75)
- EPA Region 4 (2T76)
- Valerie Gregg, Digital Government Partnering Group (2T71)
4:00-4:30 NICS Business Meeting and Wrap-Up (2T72)