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What is the Integated
Information Initiative?
The vision of the Integrated Information Initiative is to empower users
by organizing and integrating all digital information into what appears
to be one system. This effort will require excellent data management,
capture of the meaning of data and integration of different types of
data. Fundamental to data management is the organization and
interchange of data, along with secure access to that data to ensure
flexibility, integrity, affordability and capability for growth.
The transition to an integrated enterprise will be complex, but the
benefits will be enormous and allow us to increase the level of service
and range of problems that can be approached. This transition will
include:
- The creation of an enterprise-wide data model to use
as the primary descriptor for all data sources
- Identification of data sources and creation of
semantic and syntactic information for those sources
- Storage of the data and meta-data in an open systems
environment
- Management and use of this information with
standardized tools to support
a. Search & discovery
b. Research & analysis
c. Data mining
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