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US Federal Government Inter-Agency Benchmarking & Best Practices Council Library section breaks out knowledge by category, i.e. strategy, benchmarking, etc. and links by category to books, journals abstracts (ABI/INFORM) and full text articles.

The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Agency supports research in Advanced Computational Infrastructure, Advanced Networking Infrastructure, Computer - Communication, Experimental and Integrative Techniques, and Information and Intelligent Systems. Use the search engine on the site with terms like: knowledge, intelligence, intelligent, data mining, data warehousing, and visualization. Brief Summary of the CISE

Hightlights of documents on this site (results of samples searches)

Knowledge Networking(KN) White Paper Hotel Boulderado, Boulder, Colorado May 8-9, 1997
Human Dimensions of Knowledge Networking: Access, Usability, Impact Final Report Conference in Santa Barbara, CA June, 1997
Digital Libraries Initiative Details on the six research projects developing new technologies for digital libraries -- storehouses of information available through the Internet
Visualization of Information and Data Report is still not posted though the seminar was in June, 1997. Summary of goals of the workshop are posted here.

Scientific and Technical Reports Collection Sponsored by the DoD Scientific and Technical Information Program, DTIC which is the central Department of Defense facility for providing access to and facilitating the exchange of scientific and technical information. Abstracts are available for free, reports typically cost $6.

SEARCH FOR GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED LITERATURE

GPO Monthly Catalog Catalog of US Government publications with links to web sites containing full text of articles from the Government Publishing Office. (Many may be ordered on this site from the GPO. Some full text links) Use the search engine on the site with terms like: knowledge, intelligence, intelligent, data warehousing, and visualization. Or, browse by title from here: GPO Monthly Catalog

Illinet A reference service linked to Illinois library holdings. Search as a guest here at no cost and identify resources in state libraries that are are available. Consider search terms like: "knowledge management", "data mining", "data warehousing"

NSF (National Science Foundation) Publications. NSF Catalog - CISE publications Browse these publications from here. NSF - Search Documents Online Do a fielded search using the title field and using terms like: knowledge, intelligence or intelligent

The National Technical Information Service NTIS - government-sponsored U.S. and world wide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. An agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, NTIS covers expenses by selling its products. Search through 370,000 publications, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual material from the last 10 years. (Leave the Boolean connector "OR" out of your search request - just use spaces) No abstract or summary information is provided. Reports average cost are $20-60. (You may want to subscribe to Gov.Research_Center depending on your needs instead which includes abstracts.)

The National Institute of Standards and Quality This agency strives to assist US businesses and not-for-profit entities to deliver ever improving value to customers, and improve overall company performance. Recent CEO study regarding major trends effecting business rated knowledge management high in terms of priorities for the future.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology The Human-Computer Interface Technologies group focuses on the following areas: Spoken Language Technology, Text Search and Retrieval, Visual Image Processing, and Information Visualization.

US LAW

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