Ferrett and Connecticut

Patrick McGlameryHomer Babbidge LibraryUniversity of Connecticut

Acknowledgements to Robert Cromley & Ann Green

1. Partner in the research process

• Identification of data needs and data management tasks

• Data production, data procurement

• Data cleaning, integration, management, documentation

• Retrieval and evaluation

• Analysis, version control, documentation

• Integration into publication

• Archiving and dissemination

2. One-stop shopping for data from diverse sources

• Monolithic collection of data from multiple dissemination streams

• Custom extract capabilities

• Potential for linked output

• Integrated graphics and mapping

• Ability to integrate local data with other data

• More effective use and interpretation of data

3. Data produced in CT about CT, integrated into a national context

Town Profiles in FERRETT from multiple State sources:

• CT Office of Policy and Management• CT Dept of Public Health• CT Economic Resource Center• CT State Library• CT Dept of Education• CT Dept of Labor

FERRETT/Data Web Work in Connecticut

• Town profile test database in MySQL @ University of CT and US Census Bureau

• Metadata consultation• Town Profile metadata• Applying the DDI standard in FERRETT (Ann Green, Yale)• Applying the FGDC Standard in FERRETT (Cromley & McGlamery)

• Geography: experimentation with shape files, custom geography production at the University of CT (Prof Robert Cromley & Patrick McGlamery) and Yale (Steven Citron-Pousty)

• Consultation on interface development (Ann Green, Yale)• Work on understanding what data users need, what they do

and how they think during the phases of locating, using, and understanding (Cromley, Green)

UCCGIA/FERRETT R&D Activities

• Internet cartographic display of demographic data

• Internet distribution of geographical demographic data

Stat tool: Input -Stat data -GeoCodes -Resolution Output -Routing call -Text from Perl/Java

 

GeoMetadata DB

GeoDatabase

Orchestra Conductor

GeoMDWrapper

      

Routing Call matches stat data to GeoData.       

Output  Thin GeoData   Header Metadata

    (changes)

Comparability

      Rules Presentation

Tabla Rasa      Interactive

      Static JPG for navigation basemap

1.       Intervals 2.       Classification

3.      Saturation

4.      Bipolar

GeoQuery

Data Dissemination• Shapefile

StatWrapper

The Connecticut Data Server

Data in table format

Data in delimited format

Internet distribution of geodata in shapefile format

Per Capita Income, 1997

Internet cartographic display