1.3: Partnerships
Explore possible search partnerships with other Federal agencies Other Information:
Search partnerships would help people to find information maintained by EPA and partner agencies. One basic type of partnership
could include navigation tools guiding people easily from EPA’s Web site to pages on other Federal agency Web sites where
they can begin to search for information of interest. Another more sophisticated partnership could be used to develop a federated
search capability with controlled vocabulary of environmental terms used by all partners to catalog the content of their respective
information resources to allow for easy identification and retrieval. Both the challenges and benefit of improving search
of environmental information are multiplied when expanding the scope beyond EPA to include information available through other
Federal agencies. EPA will proceed by exploring incremental improvements with the potential of someday expanding into fully
federated search. Most agencies provide search mechanisms for information that is on their Web sites. To establish partnerships,
EPA needs to engage other agencies and resolve technical issues. • How can EPA engage partners to coordinate search across
agencies? • What issues, e.g., technologies, taxonomies, and tagging standards, must Federal agencies agree on to coordinate
search across their organizations?
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