NASA Access Mechanism - Graphical user interface information retrieval system

Hunter, Judy F.; Generous, Curtis; Duncan, Denise

doi:10.2514/6.1993-583

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“…NTRS is different from previous NASA "electronic library systems" such as NELS (Smith, 1993) and NAM (Hunter, 1993) in several areas. The most obvious is that NTRS is provided in the context of the World Wide Web.…”

Section: Overview Of Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The NASA Technical Report Server

Nelson¹,

Gretchen²,

David

et al. 1995

Internet Research

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The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 established NASA and charged it to "provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning [...] its activities and the results thereof." The search for innovative methods to distribute NASA's information lead a grass-roots team to create the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), which uses the World Wide Web and other popular Internet-based information systems as search engines. The NTRS is an inter-center effort which provides uniform access to various distributed publication servers residing on the Internet. Users have immediate desktop access to technical publications from NASA centers and institutes. The NTRS is comprised of several units, some constructed especially for inclusion in NTRS, and others that are existing NASA publication services that NTRS reuses. This paper presents the NTRS architecture, usage metrics, and the lessons learned while implementing and maintaining the service. The NTRS is largely constructed with freely available software running on existing hardware. NTRS builds upon existing hardware and software, and the resulting additional exposure for the body of literature contained ensures that NASA's institutional knowledge base will continue to receive the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination.

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Section: Overview Of Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%