Goddard Library Hosts Successful KM Event

Attendees of Library Open House

"Knowledge management is a critical aspect of our center's future," says Center Director Al Diaz in his opening remarks at the recent Goddard Library Open House held Sept. 26. "Creating Value from Knowledge Assets" was the theme and more than 300 people attended demonstrations of exciting new technologies, services and projects related to knowledge management.

	Simon Szykman, NIST

Simon Szykman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presented a talk on the "NIST Design Repository Project." Szykman's presentation767 on developing a computational framework for the creation of design repositories and the proof-of-concept prototype is available for download at: http://library.gsfc.nasa.gov/Announce/Sept2002/
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Partnerships and teamwork are known to play a big role in effective knowledge management. The Goddard Library partnered with Center organizations, as well as the University of Maryland, to highlight and demonstrate current Knowledge Management efforts underway at Goddard. Participating groups included:

The MyGoddard Portal, Code 585
NASA Technology Inventory, Code 408
Goddard's Virtual System Design Environment, Code 531
JOINed Digital Library for Earth Science Education, Code 900.2
Preserving Project Documents: A Standards-Based Approach, UMD Partnership
Digital Archiving of Goddard Knowledge Assets, Code 292 in partnership with Code 420.1

Representatives of innovative technology products were also on hand to discuss and demonstrate their wares. These included: Co-Brain a knowledge mining tool being investigated through a NASA CIO pilot project; StreamSage a tool being used here at Goddard to process streaming media and incorporate content management and accessibility; and VBrick which provides a variety of tools for live television, video-on-demand, internet streaming, and two-way interactive television.

In addition, the Library demonstrated new knowledge management projects recently completed to enhance accessibility for users. These included; IMAGES, (Image and Movie Archive of Goddard's Earth and Space Sciences) Goddard's first and only broad-based repository for images derived from Goddard scientific instruments. MyLibrary, a customizable portal for Goddard Library users; and ILink, the improved interface for the Goddard Library catalog.

Attendees (lft) Craig Hegeman, Associate Chief and Kelly Carter, Chief of Inforamtion Services and Advanced Technology Division, Code 290, learn more about the NASA Technology Inventory Database.

The event was a great success with participants from all over the Center attending and networking with one another on how to solve problems in knowledge preservation and access. Throughout the day, participants learned about exciting new technologies, services and projects.

So if you missed this exciting event, don't fret, you can still learn about these projects by visiting the Library's Web site at: http://library.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Photos by Debbie McCallum/293