Digital Government Research Center
DGRC researchers field interests and experience in databases, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, knowledge representation, data mining, and other areas of computer science and information systems. The center¹s mission is research in the design and development of advanced information systems with capabilities for generating, sharing and interacting with knowledge in a networked environment. DGRC provides projects performed under its auspices with the following:
1. Direction: Ensuring all necessary research issues are addressed, enforcing adherence to standards, and managing development of coherent pilot projects.
2. Coordination: Avoiding duplicated or nonessential research, and developing shared infrastructure.
3. Visibility: Generating the attention necessary to attract future candidates for influential pilots.
4. Sustainability: Guaranteeing that pilots and deployed systems are maintained and remain accessible beyond the extent of a particular grant or program.
DGRC Activities Include:
€ Research: As its initial research emphasis, DGRC has chosen to concentrate on the immense problems presented by the vast amounts of statistical data required and already being collected by government agencies. There are seventy agencies in the Federal government alone that are presently involved in collection and dissemination of statistical data (see http://www.fedstats.gov). In its initial efforts DGRC is working with the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the National Council on Health Statistics (NCHS). DGRC is investigating various aspects of the problem of public dissemination of disparate and nonhomogeneously represented data in a single, standardized way. Its Energy Data Collection (EDC) project exemplifies this approach.
€ Conferences: DGRC has taken an active role in
helping bring about a new community of people interested in the problems
of Digital Government, including government employees, researchers, users,
and the commercial sector. In 2000 it organized dg.o 2000, a workshop
in Digital Government. Since 2001 it has organized the National Conferences
on Digital Government Research.
€ Outreach: DGRC supports the NSF digital government
community building among Federal agencies and Researchers by hosting and
operating the consortium¹s web site (http://www.digital
government.org).
Contact information: http://www.dgrc.org
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
phone: 310-448-8766
email: arens@isi.edu
Columbia University
535 West 114th Street, MC 1103
New York, NY 10027
phone: 212-854-7443
email: klavans@cs.columbia.edu