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Interactive Archive for Data Standards

We propose to develop a technique for reviewing, publishing, and
maintaining a high quality archive of data standards. Standards
libraries are generally crated by organizations that buy, sell,
or manufacture products. The library typically consists of
documents considered relevant to the enterprise. But often, the
library becomes out-of-date as technology changes, new standards
are created, and the needs of the organization evolve. We will
address the problem of developing a process and set of tools that
support the work of acquiring, assessing, configuring, and
publishing a library of data standards. There are no existing
products that incorporate the overall, systematic technology
required to maintain specified quality controls over the
organization of the library, the types and formats of documents
stored, and the quality of the individual documents. Our goal in
Phase I is to develop a system that can be used to publish data
standards for NASA NOST. In Phase II, the system will be expanded
to support other types of standards resulting in Phase III
products usable in the public and private sectors to develop high
quality, authoritative standards and standards libraries that can
be modified in a controlled way as technology and requirements
evolve.

We see a market for publishing libraries containing high quality
standards and procedures. The libraries will be well organized
and cross referenced so that context and experience with the
standards will be available to users. We expect that a product
will be available by the end of Phase II that could be sold as a
hardware/software/information package to standards organizations,
engineering groups, government agencies, and corporate management
support groups. We may contract with experts and authorities in
specialized fields such as medicine, law, engineering, and
administration. They would produce and review documents and we
will organize them, package them with tools and other software,
and sell the product to public and private sector customers. We
also see a market for providing on-line access to our libraries
and maintaining them ourselves to satisfy quality controls and
remain current. In Phase III we will want to investigate whether
on-line access to special interest libraries can be marketed to
the public. As the "information superhighway" becomes a reality,
we will have an infrastructure that will support remote access to
advanced data products and graphics tools incorporated into our
products.

INTERACTIVE ARCHIVES INC 
11324 CHERRY HILL RD UNIT 202
BELTSVILLE, MD 20705
FRANK J. LOPINTO 301-595-8864
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
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BOULDER, CO 80309