• "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:

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