About CENDI — STI LifeCycle Management

History	Members	Cooperating Organizations
Chairman's Message	Operations and Organization	Highlights

Over the last decade, a significant transition has occurred in the way that information is created, processed, stored, disseminated, and preserved. More information is managed electronically, and more users of STI expect to access information at locations and times that are convenient for them.

In response to this environment, CENDI is promoting the development of improved STI systems through the productive interrelationship of content and technology. CENDI is working to envision and define a framework for a knowledge management system for the federal STI community. This involves collaborating with a variety of stakeholder groups and monitoring the various components of such a framework:

Requirements definition
Investigation of the technologies that support key functional requirements
Security and privacy issues
Specific methodologies for sharing information, such as XML, crosswalks between agency metadata schemes, and multiple-database searching
Monitoring relevant standards (metadata, persistent digital object identification, digital preservation, etc.)
Monitoring future enabling technologies such as wireless, digital signatures, pervasive computing, and portal technologies

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