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IAEA orders Electronic Archive of On-line Materials of Nuclear Interest
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Wil/Switzerland - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, has ordered xinexus NUCLEAR AG to develop an Electronic Archive of On-line Materials of Nuclear Interest.
An increasing proportion of the world's published scientific and technical information is presently available openly - and often exclusively - on the Internet. While this method of publishing saves costs, is more timely than printed media and reaches a wider audience, it is affiliated with fundamental shortcomings:
- The amount of non-nuclear-related information on the Internet is growing much faster than the contributions in the nuclear field. This "pin in the haystack" situation makes it more and more difficult to locate relevant information in the nuclear field.
- Internet based information resources are volatile. Unlike printed materials, which are distributed and stored in many locations, information on the Internet is often retrieved world wide from a single location. If that single source of information becomes unavailable, the lost resources might not be available from any other location.
The IAEA's International Nuclear Information System (INIS) has, since its creation in 1970, acted as the custodian of the world's printed nuclear-related literature. The archival, preservation and distribution of bibliographic records and of the full text of reports, theses and other non-conventional literature is today a well established, ongoing and very successful co-operative activity. The Electronic Archive of On-line Materials is an initiative to extend this custodianship, under the auspices of the IAEA, to nuclear related information, which is published on the Internet.
xinexus NUCLEAR AG has obtained the contract to develop the prototype of the Archive. The project entails the regular spidering of Internet sites of nuclear interest, the automated downloading and archival of terabytes of information and the provision of an advanced infrastructure for information retrieval.
The benefits of the project are in the domains of knowledge management and knowledge preservation.
- Knowledge management aspect: Full text indexing, automatic classification, and advanced search algorithms unlock the contents of the archived documents. The document repository and its supporting functionality will enable very effective knowledge mining in the nuclear domain.
- Knowledge preservation aspect: The archive will ensure the continued availability of a growing reservoir of scientific/technical documents.
The Electronic Archive of On-line Materials of Nuclear Interest extends the business philosophy of INIS to resources on the Internet. The business benefits to the IAEA and to its Member States are therefore comparable to the benefits arising from the creation and maintenance of the INIS Bibliographic Database and the associated full text collection of Non-Conventional Literature.
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