February 16,2005 - NICS Learning Phase Workshop (2KND)
Notes from Wrap-Up Session (2KNE)
- Incentives for better standards & data (2KNF)
- Indemnification of organizations who used NICS ready data and abide by standards to give some political cover (2KNG)
- Tracking the growth of intermediaries and local groups who are using data in a more sophisticated way (2KNH)
- Education process to engage regional folks in the purpose of tracking statistics regardless of the current standing (future benefits) (2KNI)
- Use cases of Best Practices i.e. Community Technical Assistance Center to help communities to collect data. (2KNJ)
- Link with NRC & NARS (2KNK)
- How government has been affected by the actions of the citizens (2KNL)
- Public private partnership funded by grants to make the data more accessible and collection more efficient, standard space, collaboration around the data (2KNM)
- ACS is a public private partnership with the census advisor committees which improved census efforts. (2KNN)
- Acid Rain program was developed with input of the local groups and EPA developing a more rigorous model to determine the results. (2KNO)
- Formal and quantitative analysis of user needs (2KNP)
- Determine whether this is an official or nonofficial set of data (2KNQ)
- What is quality? (2KNR)
- Let the consumers of data (publishers and packagers) to determine what is "good or bad" (2KNS)
- NICS should be a community of data with guides to the federal datasets and thumbnails of information in lower level of data (2KNT)
- What makes data legitimate to users? It can not be determined from outside of the user group. Include it in the metadata (2KNU)
- Have collaborative sharing processes to determine how to bring sets together appropriately (2KNV)
- Initiatives with the public data have brought government agencies to the realization of the need to do more and move toward an open and interoperable framework moving toward symantic metadata and machine processable metadata. (2KNW)
CLOSING (2PHU)