UNC's Marchionini Earns JASIST's Best Paper award
DG researcher takes top honors for work on interfaces and statistics

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The Journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology (JASIST) has chosen University of North Carolina scientist and Digital Government Researcher Gary Marchionini to receive its Best Paper award for 2002 his work on the evolution of user interfaces and Web-based statistics.

Marchionini is expected to travel to ASIST's annual meeting in Los Angeles on Oct. 22 to receive the $1,500 award, which is chosen by jury and given by JASIST's publisher, John Wiley & Sons.

The paper is titled "Co-evolution of User and Organizational Interfaces: A Longitudinal Case Study of WWW Dissemination of National Statistics" and appeared in JASIST last year in issue 14.

Marchionini's study describes how user interfaces for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site evolved over a 5-year period along with the larger organizational interface and how this co-evolution has influenced the institution itself.

Drawing on interviews with BLS staff and transaction logs of BLS web site activity, the study demonstrates that the BLS web site and its user interface has become a significant element in the BLS organizational interface.

This change has led to issues and changes in all the dimensions of the organizational interface (its data systems, policies and procedures, corporate culture, and public face).

The contributions of this study are both theoretical and practical: it offers a beginning for a theory of co-evolution of interfaces, and the framework developed from longitudinal analysis of this case can lead to improved user interfaces, promote broader access to data resources, and help agencies respond to resulting changes and plan future services. The award carries a $1,500 cash prize and travel expenses.