# Presentation: 195476

## Federal STI Managers’ Group

***CENDI****** ***

*Summer 2007*

***Presented by***
**Bonnie C. Carroll**
***Executive Director, CENDI Secretariat***

## What is CENDI?

**Interagency group of senior federal STI managers who agree to cooperate by**
**Exchanging information and ideas**
**Sharing resources**
**Undertaking joint initiatives**
**From policy to standards to operations**
**Member agencies manage over 97% of the annual federal R&D budget**

## CENDI’s Vision

**Federal STI agencies will have a cooperative *****enterprise***** where capabilities are shared and challenges are faced together so that the sum of the accomplish-ments is greater than each individual agency can achieve on its own.**

## CENDI’s  Mission

**CENDI’s mission is to help improve the productivity of federal science- and technology-based programs through effective scientific, technical, and related information support systems.  **
**In fulfilling its mission, CENDI agencies play an important role in addressing science- and technology-based national priorities and strengthening U.S. competitiveness.****  **

## CENDI Goals

**1.****  STI *****Coordination and Leadership:*****  **Provide coordination and leadership for information exchange on important STI policy issues.
**2.****  *****Improvement of STI Systems:*****  **Promote the development of improved STI systems through the productive interrelationship of content and technology.
**3.****  *****STI Understanding:  ***Promote better understanding of STI and STI management.

## CENDI Membership

*An interagency group composed of senior STI managers**:*

**CENDI began with four agencies and took it’s name from the beginning letter of each member agency:**
**C**OMMERCE –** **National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
**E**NERGY **–**** **Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
**N**ASA – Scientific and Technical Information Program (STI)
**D**EFENSE** –** Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
**I **NFORMATION

- 7 cabinet departments
- 2 legislative branch agencies**	**

- 12 major programs
-   3 independent agencies

## CENDI is a well recognized leader as

- CENDI ~ The Federal STI
- Managers Group

- With the addition of other agency memberships -- the National Libraries of Agriculture, Education and Medicine, the Department of Interior’s USGS Biological Resources Discipline, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency’s offices of Environmental Information and Research and Development, the Government Printing Office, the National Science Foundation, and, most recently, the Library of Congress --the acronym can no longer be made to fit the member-alpha strategy.  However, CENDI chose to retain the name by which it has long been known.

**What’s in a Name?**

## Agency Challenges

** ****Budget**
** ****Personnel needs**
** ****Specialized expertise**
** ****Access to contractors**
** ****Technology change**
** ****Increasing user expectations**
** ****Policy directions**
** ****Administrative requirements**

## CENDI Priority Areas

**Implementation of E-government Act**
**Digital archiving, access and preservation**
**Involvement in federal STI policy - access, intellectual property, privacy and security, data quality, etc.**
**Web metrics and evaluation**
**Review of key technologies **
**Persistent identifiers**
**IT Security**

**CENDI Priority Areas**

## Slide 10

## The Current Environmental Context for CENDI

**The Current Environmental Context for CENDI**

## CENDI Planning Themes Set The Stage

***2008***** ~ *****Complexity and Organizational Transformation****** ***
**2007 ~ Federal STI:  Changing Roles and Requirements**** **
**2006 ~ Knowledge Discovery and Meeting New Expectations**
**2005 ~ The Power of Cooperation:  Collective Action for Mutual Benefit **
**2004 ~ New Strategies and Operating Models for Federal STI Managers:  **
**	****E-government / E-science **
**2003 ~ Striking Balances:  STI Requirements and Response**
**2002 ~ Creating the Next Generation:  How CENDI Can Have an Impact in the New Environment**
**2001 ~ Designing an STI Architecture:  Where Content and Technology Meet**
**2000 ~ 2020 Vision -- 2000 Realities**
**1999 ~ The Virtual STI Enterprise:  Completing the Connections**
**1998 ~ Enterprise Networking and STI Futures**
**1997 ~ Changing STI Management in a Networked Environment**
**1996 ~ Opportunity in Change**
**1995 ~ Changing Missions -- Changing Technologies**
**1994 ~ Building a Digital Information Network**
**1993 ~ Navigating in a Networked World**
**1992 ~ Critical Connections:  Cooperation to Enhance Information Value and Use **
**1991 ~ Building Strategic Alliances**

## CENDI Regular Meetings

**CENDI Regular Meetings**

**AMAZOOGLE:  **
**Information Management ~ **
**Flattened and Turned Inside Out**
***Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President ***
***and Chief Strategist, OCLC***
***OCLC***

**9:00 am     ****	****Welcome and Introductions - Walter Warnick, DOE/OSTI Director, CENDI Chair**
- 11:15 am	NAL Showcase - Introductions by Peter Young and Eleanor Frierson
- 		National Digital Library for Agriculture (NDLA), Web Migration, 			Voyager-Relais, National Agricultural Library Digital Repository 			(NALDR), Prestele Exhibit
- 12:15-1:15pm   	Group Lunch

**STRATEGIC CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES**
***INVITED SESSION***
**9:15-11:15 am**

**Coalition for Networked Information:  **
**Key Issues and Opportunities**
***Clifford Lynch, Executive Director***
***Coalition of Networked Information***

*   **Agenda for June 6, 2006*** **

## CENDI Workshops

**Visualization of Text Workshop**
**2006 AAAS Symposium on Long-lived Data**
**XML Security Issues**
**PDF in the Government Environment**
**Terminology Resources**
**Persistent Identifiers**
**XML Basics**
**Intrusion Detection**
**Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery**
**Managing and Preserving Electronic Resources: The OAIS  Reference Model**
**PKI and Digital Signatures **
**Evaluating Our Web Presence: Challenges, Metrics, Results**

**CENDI Workshops**

## CENDI Projects and

**Copyright FAQs- *****with periodic updates***
**Multiple Persistent Identifier Resolution:  An Analysis of Approaches**
**Formats for Digital Preservation:  A Review of Alternatives and Issues**

**CENDI Projects and**
**Publications**

## CENDI cooperates with numerous other organizations

**Mission agencies**
**Executive policy agencies**
**Legislative branch agencies**
**Judicial branch agencies**
**Interagency groups**
**Non-governmental organizations**
**Private sector organizations**

## Slide 17

## “Without groups like [CENDI], the Information Infrastructure Initiative would have ended up a network looking for an application;  CENDI provides the policy focus for both general STI needs and the specific applications in health, space, energy, defense, and insight into the needs of industry.”

***~ ******Lewis M. Branscomb***
- Former Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program of the JFK School of Government at Harvard