DoD (Department of Defense) Gateway Information System: How the Defense Technical Information Center Plans to Broaden the Availability of Information within DoD

摘要

This report describes an online information transfer tool called Gateway. This system allows users to access many different federal and commercial databases while only having to learn one set of search commands and strategies. Gateway translates the input commands and search strategy into an acceptable format for each of the databases accessed through it. The effect of this system will be that users will get more reliable information more conveniently due to the relative ease of accessing many databases until one strategy rather than a different strategy for each database. Keywords: Databases; Information transfer; Technical information centers; Data processing security; Electronic security; DGIS; NTIS; NASA; DOE; Dialog. (KT)