Draft2:Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense Information Managers Group
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Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense Information Managers Group (CENDI) is an interagency group of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) managers from 14 United States federal agencies. CENDI managers cooperate by exchanging information and ideas, collaborating to address common issues, and undertaking joint initiatives. CENDI's accomplishments range from impacting federal information policy to educating a broad spectrum of stakeholders on all aspects of federal STI systems, including its value to research and the taxpayer, and to operational improvements in agency and interagency STI operations.
History
CENDI traces its roots to the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) of the Federal Council on Science and Technology. COSATI was established in the early 1960s to coordinate the management of the results from the U.S. government's increasing commitment to scientific research and technology development. The scientific and technical information (STI) managers of the government's major research and development (R&D) agencies worked within COSATI to standardize guidelines for cataloging and indexing technical reports. COSATI ceased formal operations in the early 1970s.
To continue the cooperation begun under COSATI, managers of agency STI programs from Commerce (National Technical Information Service), Energy (Office of Scientific and Technical Information), NASA (HQ/STI Division), and Defense (Defense Technical Information Center
) began meeting periodically to discuss common topics and stimulate more effective cooperation.
In 1985, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the four charter agencies and CENDI was established. From this small core of STI managers, CENDI has grown to its current membership, which represents the major science agencies, the national libraries, and agencies involved in the dissemination and long-term management of scientific and technical information.
The vision of CENDI is to facilitate cooperative enterprise where capabilities are shared and challenges are faced together so that the sum of the accomplishments is greater than each individual agency can achieve on its own amongst federal STI agencies.
The abbreviation CENDI refers to the "Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense Information Managers Group".[1]
Membership
New members from other federal R&D information organizations may be admitted by unanimous agreement of the members. However, it is the intent of the group that membership in CENDI should remain small and focus on organizations with STI or supporting responsibilities. Each agency provides funding to CENDI.
The members of CENDI are:
- Defense Technical Information Center (United States Department of Defense)
- Office of Research and Development and Office of Environmental Information (United States Environmental Protection Agency)
- Government Printing Office
- Library of Congress
- Scientific and Technical Information Program
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) - National Agricultural Library (United States Department of Agriculture)
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Library of Education (United States Department of Education)
- National Library of Medicine (United States Department of Health and Human Services)
- National Science Foundation
- National Technical Information Service (United States Department of Commerce)
- National Transportation Library (Department of Transportation)
- Office of Scientific and Technical Information (United States Department of Energy)
- USGS/Biological Resources Discipline (United States Department of the Interior)
DOE relevance
OSTI is involved with the management of their website.
Points of contact
- The CENDI web site is hosted by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), and is maintained by the CENDI Support Staff.
- Inquiries regarding CENDI or comments or questions about this web site or its contents should be sent to cendi.info@iiaweb.com.
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External links
References
- ↑ "About CENDI — History". CENDI.gov. http://www.cendi.gov/about/history.html. Retrieved August 26, 2013.