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This research is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's
information management group, the Office of
Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
The project centers around the
development of a comprehensive Energy & Environmental Information
Resources (EE-IR) Center, which will focus on information resources of
interest to the Gulf Coast region. In addition to those maintained locally,
clients will also be provided access to information resources created by
organizations such as the National
Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII).
The EE-IR Center benefits users
by capturing and organizing the knowledge and experience of environmental
research librarians, by creating metadata to locate appropriate information
sources, and by providing software tools and infrastructure to
transparently search and process data within databases.
The development of the EE-IR
Center complements and supports the activities of the NASA/UL Lafayette Regional Application
Center recently established at UL Lafayette. The funding provided
for this project will, in part, enhance the computing resources of the RAC.
Furthermore, the research and development carried out relative to EE-IR
Center will further extend the capabilities of the NASA/RAC to search,
distribute and add value to NASA data sets.
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