CENDI Interest Areas
(As of May, 2008)
The STI programs of the CENDI agencies have many common interests. The organization was chartered to maximize the opportunities for sharing member agency resources, avoid duplication of effort, and improve each agency's effectiveness. The members exchange information and ideas, share resources, and undertake joint initiatives. Projects are conducted by Working Groups and Task Groups. Members cooperate on many levels, from policy to standards to operations, and on a variety of topics:
- Archiving, Preservation and Permanent Access
- Copyright, Intellectual Property and Open Access
- Customer Support
- Digital/Virtual Libraries
- Distribution Markings
- Information Economics
- Information Policy
- IT Security and Policy
- Metadata and Bibliographic Control
- Metrics and Evaluation
- Persistent Identification (digital identification)
- Taxonomies, Terminologies, and Controlled Vocabularies
- Technology Assessments
