Fig. 2

The Data View. The integration, inspection and analysis of data take place within the Data View. The center data table (a) displays the selected object data (here: city data). Its corresponding geographic location is indicated in the map below (b). An integrated web browser (c) supports the integration process by generating search queries, e.g. regarding the gender of a given forename. The buttons above the data table (d) enable the functionality to exclude, include, mark, view, manipulate (e.g. merge) and analyze selected objects. On the left side the different (selectable) object types and their numbers are shown (e). The number after the slash ('/') represents the count of items to be checked by the user. Above this panel a process-coordinating to-do-list is given to support the user during the different analyzing steps (f). The list is automatically updated as a function of the current process state. Notifications and status messages are displayed in two output windows at the bottom (g)