New Data and New Tools: A Hypermedia Environment for Navigating Statistical Knowledge in Data Science

Summary

In research organizations and universities handling statistical information, enormous efforts are being made to integrate a great diversity of stored statistical information resources into databases. In many cases, however, these resources are recorded on a great variety of media and they are not integrated and are stored in scattered locations. This paper introduces a Statistical Meta-Information Navigation System (called Meta-Stat Navigator) developed to create a hypermedia environment for using these resources as effective research support information, together with the related research results. The main objective of this paper is to propose the conversion of statistical information resources to hypertext for effective management of the resources that will make it possible to find out with ease what information is stored where, in what form, and how it can be utilized, and the other objective is to discuss the new system to be built using a hypermedia environment.