About CENDI — Education

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

As one of its three major goals, CENDI aims to promote better understanding of STI and STI management through interagency outreach to

internal staff.
members of the STI professional community.
science and technology policy and program decision makers.
users of STI.

CENDI provides educational opportunities for agency staff to address issues of common interest. As part of this goal, CENDI promotes the sharing of information gathered at conferences and through other professional activities and organizes workshops specifically for CENDI agency staff in areas of common interest. In the past, these workshops have provided a forum for staff to share challenges and solutions and to learn about emerging technologies in areas such as the following:

Bibliographic cataloging metadata standards
Digitization and optical character recognition
Machine translation
Helpdesk software and helpdesk staff organization
Taxonomies and controlled vocabularies
Persistent identification for digital objects
Web metrics and evaluation

In addition to workshops specifically for CENDI staff, CENDI sponsors workshops of educational value to non-CENDI members. CENDI also has an active publications program.

Additionally, CENDI supports the STI community through the STI Manager, a catalog of STI-related Web resources, with topics ranging from standards to U.S. and international information policy.

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