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dgOnline 4.2 - March, 2005

Welcome to the monthly newsletter for the National Science Foundation's Digital Government program. dgOnline is published for the NSF by the Digital Government Research Center at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. http://www.dgrc.org.

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Latest dg.o2005 Conference News:

The 6th annual National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2005), convenes May 15-18 in Atlanta, GA:
Home: http://dgrc.org/dgo2005
Register: http://dgrc.org/register/start.jsp

This year, dg.o2005 is presented in collaboration with the IEEE 3rd Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics: http://www.ecom.arizona.edu/ISI/

** Register for both conferences, and save $100 off of each one's registration fee ** Early-registration discount ends April 1 Save more by registering today for dg.o2005 at: http://dgrc.org/register/start.jsp

Tutorials and International Workshops Register now for these engaging tutorials and International Workshops. Conference registrants will receive a 50% discount on fees for these sessions: Tutorials:

• "Building Working Partnerships: Government and the Academy"
  http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/tutorials/shulman_wrapped.jsp
• "Data Confidentiality and Statistical Dislosure Limitation"
  http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/tutorials/karr_wrapped.jsp
• "Scientific Metadata: Making Data More Valuable"
  http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/tutorials/hutchisonkutner_wrapped.jsp
• Application of Social Network Analysis in Digital Government Research
  http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/tutorials/lazermergel_wrapped.jsp
• Managing Interdisciplinary, Multi-Institutional Digital Government Research
  (or, Who says too many cooks spoil the soup?)
  http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/tutorials/pardocushing_wrapped.jsp

International Workshops:

• Digital Government Systems Integration & Evaluation
  http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/workshops/macintosh_wrapped.jsp
• E-Authentication Infrastructures and Their Interoperability: a Corner-Stone for the Third-Millennium Society
  http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/workshops/nardelli_wrapped.jsp

LATEST NEWS:

State Governments Grapple with Digital Archiving
The U.S. Library of Congress has launched an ambitious, 50-state project to explore and develop better, more uniform methods for governments to preserve and present documents and data now trapped in fast- obsolescing systems. http://digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2005/0305/0305_archiving_reed.jsp

DG Team Re-Purposes the Helix
Researchers at the University of Maine are drawing interest from NASA, USGS, National Cancer Institute and tech-transfer firms with a simple, powerful tool for analyzing geospatial data over time. http://digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2005/0305/0305_geospatial_heyman.jsp

NSF Releases IT-Related Program Announcements:
The National Science Foundation has announced five new funding opportunities that should be of great interest to the Digital Government research community: Next-Generation Cybertools:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05563/nsf05563.htm

Cyberinfrastructure Team (CI-Team) Demonstration Projects:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05560/nsf05560.htm

Partnerships for Innovation:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05566/nsf05566.htm

Broadening Participation in Computing:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05562/nsf05562.htm

Advanced Learning Technologies
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05561/nsf05561.htm

News Beyond dg.o:

:: From Government Computer News ::
( http://www.gcn.com )

Cold Case
http://www.gcn.com/24_5/news/35216-1.html

House Panel to Probe FBI Case File System
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/35250-1.html

House Eyes DHS Shake-Up
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/35245-1.html

TopOff 4 to Take Place in Portland, Phoenix
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/35248-1.html

DHS, Justice Launch Federal Data Model
http://www.gcn.com/24_5/news/35212-1.html

Feds' Personal Data Goes Missing
http://www.gcn.com/24_5/news/35213-1.html

IRS e-Filing Hits a Midpoint Record
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/35185-1.html

:: From the European Union's Information Society Technologies Results newsletter ::
( http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=home&tpl=actions.register&Action=Subscribe&eBulletin=true)

Taking Java to the embedded market
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74442

Added reliability for safety-critical software
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74396

A scalable environment for the Semantic Web
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74426

Learning journeys: on the road to successful e-government
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74450

Engineering the services of tomorrow
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74345

Software validation testing tool gains plaudits
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74294

Adding more meaning from place searches
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74236

Adding semantics to the Web
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74284

Building open blocks for composite Web services
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=74309

::: From the Village Voice :::

Are Al Quaeda Terrorists Using Your Computer?
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0507,essay,61085,2.html

ANNOUNCEMENTS OF INTEREST:

International Journal of e-Gov Research Issues Call for Papers (Vol.2, Issue 1)
http://digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2005/0305/0305_ijegr_call.jsp

HICSS39 e-Gov Track Issues Call for Papers
http://digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2005/0305/0305_hicss_call.jsp

POSITION OF INTEREST:

Director, Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure (SCI), ES-1550, CISE/SCI (Closes: 04/29/2005)
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=s20050051c

Use these tools on DigitalGovernment.org:

• Research database:
  http://www.digitalgovernment.org/ProjectSearch?commonName=a&action=all
• Library:
  http://www.digitalgovernment.org/archive/library/
• Forums:
  http://www.digitalgovernment.org/jive/
• Events calendar:
  http://www.digitalgovernment.org/calendar/ViewCal.html
• Submit calendar events:
  http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/calendar_submit.jsp

We welcome submissions of all Digital Government-related papers, material and information for inclusion in the dgOnline newsletter, and on DigitalGovernment.org.

Questions and submissions should be forwarded to:

_________________________________
::::..... mack reed
::::..... dg.o communications manager
::::..... USC Information Sciences Institute
::::..... Digital Government Research Center
::::..... 310.448.8494 ... mack@isi.edu
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