IASSIST 2006: Data in a world of Networked Knowledge May 23-26, 2006 - Ann Arbor, Michigan Delivering Government Data to Lawyers and Journalists Susan Long Linda Roberge Syracuse University Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse http://trac.syr.edu
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IASSIST 2006: Data in a world of Networked Knowledge
May 23-26, 2006 - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Delivering Government Data to Lawyers and Journalists
Susan Long Linda Roberge
Syracuse UniversityTransactional Records Access Clearinghouse
http://trac.syr.edu
IASSIST 2006
Agenda
Our Center in Brief
Our Users and their
Needs
Problems and Solutions
IASSIST 2006
Our Center in Brief
Where does our data come from?
Use FOIA to obtain release of info from federal administrative databases tracking govt’s own activities
Create databases: document, validate and supplement, combine sources, build indices
IASSIST 2006
Our Center in Brief
How is data delivered to users?develop reports and deliver on webdata mining tools and data warehouse
for users to access our data
Center is self-supportingfree public web sitesubscription service: data mining
IASSIST 2006
TRACFEDCriminal
CivilAdministrative
PeopleMoneyContext
RAW
DATA
Find
Get
Clean
Validate
Enhance
Organize
Load
OUTPUT
STORED
DYNAMIC
Reports
Tables
Graphs
Maps
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
IASSIST 2006
Evolution in TRAC’s Delivery
Pre-web (18 years ago)Web – stored pages (12 years