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A strategy for electronic dissemination of NASA Langley technical publicationsTo demonstrate NASA Langley Research Center's relevance and to transfer technology to external customers in a timely and efficient manner, Langley has formed a working group to study and recommend a course of action for the electronic dissemination of technical reports (EDTR). The working group identified electronic report requirements (e.g., accessibility, file format, search requirements) of customers in U.S. industry through numerous site visits and personal contacts. Internal surveys were also used to determine commonalities in document preparation methods. From these surveys, a set of requirements for an electronic dissemination system was developed. Two candidate systems were identified and evaluated against the set of requirements: the Full-Text Electronic Documents System (FEDS), which is a full-text retrieval system based on the commercial document management package Interleaf, and the Langley Technical Report Server (LTRS), which is a Langley-developed system based on the publicly available World Wide Web (WWW) software system. Factors that led to the selection of LTRS as the vehicle for electronic dissemination included searching and viewing capability, current system operability, and client software availability for multiple platforms at no cost to industry. This report includes the survey results, evaluations, a description of the LTRS architecture, recommended policy statement, and suggestions for future implementations.
Document ID
19950012521
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Roper, Donna G. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Mccaskill, Mary K. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Holland, Scott D. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Walsh, Joanne L. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Nelson, Michael L. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Adkins, Susan L. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Ambur, Manjula Y. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Campbell, Bryan A. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1994
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.15:109172
NASA-TM-109172
Accession Number
95N18936
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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