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Data policy and availability supporting global change research, development, and decision-making: An information perspectiveAn explosion of information has created a crisis for today's information age. It has to be determined how to use the best available information sources, tools, and technology. To do this it is necessary to have leadership at the interagency level to promote a coherent information policy. It is also important to find ways to educate the users of information regarding the tools available to them. Advances in technology resulted in efforts to shift from Disciplinary and Mission-oriented Systems to Decision Support Systems and Personalized Information Systems. One such effort is being made by the Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change (IAWGDMGC). Five federal agencies - the Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Energy (DOE), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Library of Medicine (NLM), and Department of Defense (DOD) - have an on-going cooperative information management group, CENDI (Commerce, Energy, NASA, NLM, and Defense Information), that is meeting the challenge of coordinating and integrating their information management systems. Although it is beginning to be technically feasible to have a system with text, bibliographic, and numeric data online for the user to manipulate at the user's own workstation, it will require national recognition that the resource investment in such a system is worthwhile, in order to promote its full development. It also requires close cooperation between the producers and users of the information - that is, the research and policy community, and the information community. National resources need to be mobilized in a coordinated manner to move people into the next generation of information support systems.
Document ID
19910021278
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Carroll, Bonnie C.
(Commerce Energy NASA NLM Defense Information Cataloging Committee Oak Ridge, TN., United States)
Jack, Robert F.
(NASA Center for AeroSpace Information Baltimore-Washington International Airport, MD., United States)
Cotter, Gladys A.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1990
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Report/Patent Number
NASA-TM-105137
NAS 1.15:105137
Accession Number
91N30592
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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