May 20, 2002

XMLEurope Conference Features Lead Developer for U.S. 2002 Economic Census Project

GERMANTOWN, Maryland, USA - Steven Schafer, Ph.D., and Chief Technology Officer at Fenestra Technologies Corporation, will discuss digitizing the 2002 United States Economic Census using eXtensible Markup Language at the XMLEurope Conference in Barcelona, Spain, on May 23rd.

Key benefits of Fenestra’s software applications include:

• Streamlining the process of survey design and production so that subject matter experts have essentially real-time feedback as they layout and edit their form layouts.
• Driving the creation of both paper and electronic (online) surveys from a single, common data repository containing the content and layout information for the survey forms.
• Facilitating metadata reuse.
• Improving data integrity.
• Decreasing respondent burden.
• Accelerating the formatting for publishing vast amounts of data.

This is the United States Bureau of Census’ first experience with XML, from inception to implementation. The Economic Census takes place every five years and involves millions of businesses across the country. The statistics collected are used to determine the leading economic indicators and also for congressional and Presidential policy making.

For more information about this project, see http://www.fenestra.com, or contact jane@fenestra.com. To register for the conference or for an agenda, view http://www.idealliance.org or http://www.xmleurope.com.

About Fenestra Technologies: Fenestra researches, designs and deploys practical and turnkey solutions for highly complex content problems. Using a "triage" approach, the firm deepens feature sets and accelerates faster implementation cycles.

Core competencies include forms creation and processing, data collection and validation, complex typography formatting, and the creation of dynamic, scalable and flexible data management solutions for both electronic and paper purposes.

The U.S. Census Bureau continues to partner with Fenestra (since the early ‘90’s), and companies including IBM, ExxonMobil, and Advanced Productivity Software have also retained the firm for specialty expertise.

Contact:
Fenestra Technologies Corporation
Jane O. Smith, 301/916-8800 x 206
jane@fenestra.com