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CRL is engaged in the development of document management software and user interfaces to support government analysts in their information analysis tasks. It is also continuing to develop language technologies to support document detection and information extraction in a variety of languages. It has also been responsible for the integration and delivery of both the six and twelve month Tipster d...

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By Erica Phipps, NPPC Research Assistant. This document introduces the concepts and principles of pollution prevention (P2) and gives a brief overview of P2 activities of government, industry, and the general public. University faculty and other educators should find this document useful in preparing lectures on P2, or in incorporating P2 concepts into their specific disciplines. In addition, t...

The distribution of the German government between Bonn and Berlin calls for the technical support for the collaborative document-based tasks performed by interand intra-ministerial work groups. The currently available cooperation and communication tools do not provide an integrated and homogeneous cooperation environment suitable for this application domain. This paper presents the Cooperative ...

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This article examines the RLG/NARA draft Audit Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories from the perspective of publicly funded repositories, especially government archives. It reviews the historical origins of the checklist, the comments received from government archives on the metrics in the draft document and the task force’s adjudication of those comments. Finally it ...