The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
(NITRD) Program Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Year
2013 has been released. You can find it here:
http://www.nitrd.gov/PUBS/2013supplement/FY13NITRDSupplement.pdf.
"This document is a supplement to the President’s 2013 Budget Request.
It describes the activities underway in 2012 and planned for 2013 by the
Federal agencies participating in the NITRD Program, primarily from a
programmatic and budgetary perspective. It reports actual investments
for 2011, estimated investments for 2012 and requested investments for
2013 by Program Component Area (PCA) [beginning on page 12]. It
identifies the NITRD Program’s strategic priorities by PCA for budgetary
requests; strategic priorities underlying the requests; highlights of
the requests; planning and coordination activities supporting the
request; and 2012 and 2013 activities by agency."
There are a number of activities and areas of identified research that
should be of interest to archivists, records managers, and other
information professionals. For example:
Decision-support systems provide mechanisms for sifting through large,
complex data sets to identify alternative strategies from the data that,
without computational analysis, would strain human cognitive
capabilities. [pg. 35]
Information infrastructure: A robust, resilient national digital data
framework for long-term preservation and accessibility of electronic
records as well as expanding data and records collections. [pg. 35]
From data to new knowledge and action: For complex data, new ways
should be developed to enable the intuitive display of complex
interactions and mechanisms that enhance both discovery and use of data,
as well as effective analytical products for decision makers and the
public [pg. 36]
Effective stewardship of science and engineering data: Research foci
include personalized access to information, as well as federation,
preservation, curation, data life-cycle stewardship, and analysis of
large, heterogeneous collections of scientific data, information, and
records. [pg. 36]
Information integration, accessibility, and management: Multiple
advances are required in technologies, system architectures, and tools
for optimized, scalable ingest and processing for high capacity data
integration (especially of Geographic Information System (GIS) and
spatio-temporal data), management, exploitation, modeling, and analysis.
In addition, investigation continues in cloud-based infrastructures to
efficiently gain distributed access to data resources utilizing new
ontologies and metadata formats for discovery [pg. 36]
Information search and retrieval: New research methods and tools are
necessary for evaluation and performance measures of
information-discovery technologies, as well as relevance feedback.
Current focus areas include legal discovery, recognition of opinion, and
patent search, as well as machine reading of records [pp. 36-37]
Information access, management, and preservation: Multiple agencies
participate in the IWG on Digital Data and the IWG on Public Access to
Scientific Publications. Topics of consideration include new policy
development and identification of existing standards for
interoperability, such as the Digital Preservation Interoperability
Framework International Standard (DPIF) [pg. 37]
Foundations of visualization and analysis: This provides a multiagency
mechanism for coordination of research in feature extraction for anomaly
detection, integration of multiple types of data and records at scale or
format, the use of visualization as an interface, and biomedical imaging
[pg. 37-38]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been
involved with the NITRD Program for many years. From 2004 through 2006
NARA was a "participating" agency. From 2006 forward NARA has been a
"member" agency. In addition to the activities listed above NARA has
been conducting research in these areas:
Global scale capable, open source, "next generation" cloud technologies
architectures and
services enabling effective sustainable management, intellectual
control, and access to nationally
distributed billion file and larger scale complex digital object
collections [pg 38]
You can find more information about the NITRD program at
http://www.nitrd.gov/.
You can find more information about NARA's Applied Research Program at
http://www.facebook.com/NARACAST or
http://www.archives.gov/applied-research/ or
http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?cat=52
Mark Conrad
NARA Information Services/Applied Research
IA
The National Archives and Records Administration
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