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

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 accepta...

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Main Authors: Douglas, Richard D, Cotter, Gladys A
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ACCESS
AVAILABILITY
COMMERCE
Computer Systems
DATA BASES
DATA PROCESSING SECURITY
DTIC(DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER)
ELECTRONIC SECURITY
GATEWAY INFORMATION SYSTEM
Information Science
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
INFORMATION TRANSFER
ONLINE SYSTEMS
RELIABILITY
SEARCHING
STRATEGY
TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTERS
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
USER NEEDS
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Summary: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.