On Wednesday, February 17, 2010, the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development delivered a preprint version of the FY 2011 Supplement to the President's Budget for the NITRD Program to OSTP, OMB, and Congressional Staff Members. The R&D budget testimony of Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), was presented before the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday, February 24, 2010.
The final print version of the FY 2011 NITRD Supplement will be out by the end of March 2010.
The preprint version is now available at http://www.nitrd.gov/About/FY11NITRDSupp-preprint1Web-020810.pdf.
Archivists and Records Managers may be particularly interested in the section on Human Computer Interaction and Information Management (HCI&IM) which begins on page 10 of the document (page 13 of the pdf file). Once again, issues related to the long term management, preservation and access to electronic records has been identified as a top priority for research and development across the Federal Government. Once again, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has helped shape this document and is actively involved in carrying out this research.
Here are just a few highlights (emphasis added):
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
Information infrastructure: Technical challenges in 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;
multidisciplinary R&D in ways to convert data into knowledge and discovery; social-computational systems
Highlights of Request
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 * NIH, NSF, NIST, NASA, NOAA, EPA, NARA
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 * NSF, DoD, NIST, DARPA, NASA, NARA, IARPA
Information integration, accessibility, and management: Advanced technologies, system architectures, and
tools for highly optimizable, scalable ingest and processing; high-capacity data integration, management,
exploitation, modeling, analysis, and tools; video understanding; ontologies and metadata; efficient data access
* NIH, NSF, DARPA, NIST, NASA, AHRQ, NOAA, EPA, NARA
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, NARA, IARPA
Additional 2010 and 2011 Activities by Agency
NARA: Advanced decision-support technologies for ultra-high-confidence processing of very large Presidential
electronic records collections (with ARL support)
Archivists and records managers everywhere can point out to their resource allocators that electronic records issues are seen as important research and development priorities at the highest levels of the U.S. Government.
Mark Conrad
NARA Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies
NHA
The National Archives and Records Administration
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