1996 Electronics Industry Environmental Roadmap - Civil and ...

Information and Knowledge Systems
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Priority Need Task
1. Develop a national environmental data
registry to support environmental
decision-making
2. Develop an industry-wide
environmental ontology and metrics
3. Create/augment material and chemical
databases to include environmental
information
4. Develop decision support tools to
augment intelligent access and analysis
of information
5. Create a multi-enterprise
environmental data warehouse
6. Create an “environmental mall” that
offers an evolution to today's data
access and retrieval options
1.a. Identify available sources of data,
government, public and industrial
1.b. Establish standards for
environmental data for registration
1.c. Encourage dissemination and
adoption of registration standards
2.a. Establish standards for
environmental data metrics
2.b Create relational models (ontologies)
of environmental data in high
priority/high interest data sets
2.c. Develop user friendly ontology tools
to allow broad user input
3.a. Develop the framework for a broad
material and chemical database
activity
3.b. Institute a collaborative process for
database population and management
4.a. Stimulate the development and
implementation of software agents
for access to the “right” information
4.b. Develop the methodologies to utilize
emerging metrics of environmental
information in business decision
processes
5.a. Collaboratively develop the
architecture for data warehousing
5.b. Identify and assess the tools available
to support data transformation and
integration.
6.a. Effectively link the emerging Webbased
information sources
6.b. Incorporate intelligent software
agents to aid in access to the right
information
6.c. Couple distributed information with
distributed software analysis tools
and processing capability
Table 3-2. Information and knowledge systems priority needs matrix.