Writing Guidelines to Develop a Memorandum of Understanding for Interoperable Automated Fingerprint identification Systems.

摘要

The lack of latent print interoperability and the subsequent missed opportunities to make identifications have been long recognized as serious issues within the identification community. Latent print examiners, AFIS managers, vendors, governmental agencies, and professional organizations have explored opportunities to improve interoperability. Since the introduction of AFIS databases in the 1980s and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBIs) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System in the late 1990s, latent print identifications have risen on a hierarchical level but not on a peer-to-peer basis. As part of a National Institute of Justice (NIJ)/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) effort to address the lack of AFIS latent interoperability, the Law Enforcement Standards Office (OLES) formed the Latent Print AFIS Interoperability Working Group. The mission of this Working Group is to improve latent print AFIS interoperability by developing a clear understanding of the issues and challenges to latent print AFIS interoperability and to identify collaborative ways to actively address this national problem.