[229] in Information Retrieval
Seminar by Eliot Christian on 4/12/94
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
Tue Apr 12 09:31:24 1994
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 09:30:36 -0500
To: dlicc@MIT.EDU, elibdev@MIT.EDU
From: Saltzer@MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
>Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 15:41:33 -0400
>From: ltaylor@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Lisa Ann Taylor)
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>Subject: Seminar by Eliot Christian on 4/12/94
>
>SEMINAR
>
>DATE: Tuesday, April 12, 1994
>TIME: Refreshments: 3:30 PM
> Talk: 3:45 PM
>PLACE: NE43-518
>TITLE: What is the Government Information Locator Service?
>SPEAKER:
> Eliot Christian
> Information Systems Division
> U.S. Geological Survey and Office of Management and Budget
>
>As part of the National Information Infrastructure, the U.S. Federal
>government is proposing a Government Information Locator Service
>(GILS) to help the public locate and access information. An Office of
>Management and Budget Bulletin will be published this year to provide
>implementing guidance specifying Federal agency responsibilities. The
>National Institute of Standards and Technology will also establish a
>Federal Information Processing Standard specifying a GILS Profile with
>mandatory application for Federal agencies establishing locators for
>information.
>
>GILS would identify public information resources throughout the
>Federal Government, describe the information available in those
>resources, and provide assistance in obtaining the information. It
>would consist of a decentralized collection of agency-based
>information locators and associated information services. GILS would
>supplement, but not necessarily supplant, other agency information
>dissemination mechanisms and commercial information sources.
>
>The public would be served by GILS through intermediaries or
>directly. Central disseminating agencies such as the Government
>Printing Office and the National Technical Information Service would
>act as intermediaries to GILS, as would Depository Libraries, other
>public libraries and private sector information services. Access to
>GILS contents could also be accomplished through kiosks, "800
>numbers," electronic mail, bulletin boards, FAX, and off-line media
>such as floppy disks, CD-ROM, and printed works.
>
>While GILS would encompass a very wide range of information sources
>and many mechanisms for finding and delivering information, a "GILS
>Core" would be specifically defined to be a definitive locator of
>agency information resources. The GILS Core would be accessible on
>public networks without charge to direct users.
>
>GILS would use network technology and the American National Standards
>Institute Z39.50 standard for information search and retrieval so that
>information can be retrieved in a variety of ways, and so that GILS
>direct users can ultimately gain access to many other major Federal
>and non-Federal information resources. GILS would also include
>automated linkages that facilitate electronic delivery of
>off-the-shelf information products, as well as guide users to data
>systems that support analysis and synthesis of information.
>
>About the speaker: Eliot Christian works at the Information Systems
>Division of the U.S. Geological Survey. He focuses on the general
>problem of helping researchers find and retrieve the information they
>need, and the related problem of making Earth science information
>accessible to the public. Recently, he worked with the Office of
>Management and Budget to design and establish an agency-based
>"Government Information Locator Service."
>
>Hosts: John Mallery and Karen R. Sollins
>__________________________________________________________________
>545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
>
>
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