Please forgive the cross-posting.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has  released the
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD)
Program Supplement to the President's Budget for FY 2015. "The NITRD
Program, which today comprises 20 member agencies and many additional
participating agencies, coordinates Federal research and development
investments in advanced digital technologies that are essential for the
Nation's economic growth and prosperity. NITRD agencies collaborate closely
in the planning and execution of their respective research programs,
leveraging Federal investments in a highly coordinated manner that enables
the Program as a whole to have greater positive impact than agencies could
achieve working alone." NARA is a member agency of the NITRD Program.



This Supplement - particularly the Human Computer Interaction and
Information Management section - highlights a number of issues that are
directly relevant to archivists and records managers. Here are a few
highlights:


*"*Transformative approaches for *accessing, extracting meaning from and
displaying data* remains a critical need because the volume, variety, and
velocity of data are quickly overtaking the technical capabilities to
process, manage, and analyze it."  (pg. 36)

*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. 37)

*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. 37)



*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
*domain-specific
search and machine reading of records."* (pp.37-38)



"Although the HCI&IM portfolio includes a broad range of enabling
technologies, the current focus of coordination among the agencies is the
overriding challenge of *ultra-scale, heterogeneous data*: how to manage
it, enable interoperability and usability, and *develop new infrastructures
and tools that broaden access and exploration to a wider range of end users*."
(pg. 38)

*Foundations of visualization and analysis*: "...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...." (pg.38)


*Information access, management, and preservation:* "Agencies have also
been called to meet requirements identified in the *Presidential Records
Management Directive* focusing on *electronic recordkeeping*. (pg.38)

You can find a copy of the Supplement here:
http://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/2015supplement/FY2015NITRDSupplement.pdf

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