3: Education
Promote an understanding of STI and STI management and their value to the R&D enterprise. Other Information:
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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