The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
(NITRD) Program Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Year
2012  (
http://http//www.nitrd.gov/PUBS/2012supplement/FY%202012%20Supplement%20to%20the%20President%27s%20Budget%20(PREPRINT)%20February%202011.pdf
)has been released in preprint form. 
 
You can find it here:
http://www.nitrd.gov/PUBS/2012supplement/FY%202012%20Supplement%20to%20the%20President%27s%20Budget%20%28PREPRINT%29%20February%202011.pdf

 
The supplement describes the President's priorities for NITRD for
Fiscal Year 2012. The report highlights a number of technologies that
archivists and records managers need to address the growing volume of
electronic records. 
 
See especially, pages 12-14.
 
Here are a few highlights:
 
pg. 12:
 
– Information standards: Data interoperability, integration of
distributed data; generalizable ontologies; data
format description language (DFDL) for electronic records and data;
data structure research for complex
digital objects; interoperability standards for semantically understood
ubiquitous health information
exchanges; information services for cloud-based systems
 
– Decision support: Portals and frameworks for data and processes;
user-oriented techniques and tools for
thematic discovery, synthesis, analysis, and visualization for decision
making;
 
– Information management: Intelligent rule-based data management;
increasing access to and cost-effective
integration, maintenance of complex collections of heterogeneous data;
innovative architectures for data intensive
and power-aware computing; scalable technologies; integration of
policies (differential sensitivity,
security, user authentication) with data; integrated data repositories,
computing grids; testbeds; sustainability,
validation of complex models; grid-enabled visualization for petascale
collections
 
Information infrastructure: Technical challenges in building a robust,
resilient national and global digital data
framework; management of the Federal government’s electronic records;
technologies (data transfer, mass
storage) and tools for long-term preservation, curation, federation,
sustainability, accessibility, and survivability
of vital electronic records, data collections, and health records
 
 
pg. 13:
 
From data to new knowledge: Computational concepts, methods, models,
algorithms, and tools to accelerate
scientific discovery and productivity from heterogeneous, ultra-scale
data stores; innovative, multidimensional
approaches to identifying, processing, retrieving, exploring,
analyzing, describing, and visualizing highly
complex data; intuitive display for complex interactions; enhanced
discoverability, availability, interoperability,
usability of data and analysis tools; effective analytical products for
decision makers and the public
 
Effective stewardship of science and engineering data: Issues in access
to and federation, preservation,
curation, data life-cycle stewardship, and analysis of large,
heterogeneous collections of scientific data,
information, and records; fault-tolerant, scalable I/O
 
Text Retrieval and Text Analysis Conferences: Evaluation of
information-discovery technologies;
relevance feedback; legal discovery; recognition of opinion in blogs;
entity, web, chemical patent
search; machine reading – NIST, NSF, DARPA, NARA, IARPA
 
Multimodal language recognition and translation: Improve multilingual
language technology performance in
areas of speech-to-text transcription, spontaneous two-way
communications translation, machine reading, text
retrieval, document summarization/distillation, automatic content
extraction, speaker and language recognition,
multimodal interfaces, usability, language understanding
 
pg. 14:
 
Foundations of visualization and analysis: Coordination to consider
feature extraction for anomaly detection;
integration of multiple types of data and records at scale or format;
use of visualization as an interface;
biomedical imaging –NSF, NIH, NIST, NASA, NOAA, EPA, DHS, AHRQ, NARA,
other agencies
 
NARA: Testbed investigations of: advanced decision-support technologies
for ultra-high-confidence
processing of very large Presidential electronic records collections
(with ARL support); open source-based
access and digital preservation infrastructure; technology-independent
access to, preservation of complex
digital objects, including engineering and science data.
 
 
 
 
 
Mark Conrad
NARA Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies
NHA 
The National Archives and Records Administration
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