Ferrett and Connecticut Patrick McGlamery Homer Babbidge Library University 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 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