About CENDI — STI LifeCycle Management
Over the last decade, a significant transition has occurred in the way that information is created, processed, stored, disseminated, and preserved. More information is managed electronically, and more users of STI expect to access information at locations and times that are convenient for them.
In response to this environment, CENDI is promoting the development of improved STI systems through the productive interrelationship of content and technology. CENDI is working to envision and define a framework for a knowledge management system for the federal STI community. This involves collaborating with a variety of stakeholder groups and monitoring the various components of such a framework:
- Requirements definition
- Investigation of the technologies that support key functional requirements
- Security and privacy issues
- Specific methodologies for sharing information, such as XML, crosswalks between agency metadata schemes, and multiple-database searching
- Monitoring relevant standards (metadata, persistent digital object identification, digital preservation, etc.)
- Monitoring future enabling technologies such as wireless, digital signatures, pervasive computing, and portal technologies
