Web-Scale Information Integration
Abstract
(U) The Web-Scale Information Integration program (formerly funded as Cloud Computing in PE 0602304E, Project COG-03) will create technologies to automatically integrate distributed information bases for broad strategic and tactical battlespace awareness, including technologies to automate the integration of multiple media (text, video, and digital photographs) as well as analyze, index, and store that media, so that it can be easily queried and retrieved by users across the DoD enterprise. A key enabler is the creation of a network-based repository that provides a mechanism for the virtual (i.e., logical, not physical) centralization of all enterprise information. This concept is well-aligned with important developments in the commercial sector related to cloud computing, which makes computing resources and services readily available over the Internet (“public cloud”) or enterprise intranet (“private cloud”). Inherent to such ubiquitous availability of enterprise data is the need for strong security including fine-grained/role-based controls that enable and facilitate access only to approved and authenticated users. A second key enabler is the development of advanced document/content/information-object services including indexing, metadata creation, search, versioning, records management, schema alignment, and information visualization. Program interest extends to semantic web technologies whereby the semantics of information and services are made explicit, enabling machines to understand and satisfy the information requests of users (people and machines). This will provide the basis for semantically-enabled search and processing capabilities that automate information discovery and manipulation. The Web-Scale Information Integration program will also create a new suite of intelligent information integration tools that will learn to automatically understand heterogeneous information systems and integrate them into the existing information environment. In this fashion the Web-Scale Information Integration program will enable virtual interoperability of information systems that are currently stovepiped. The result will be more complete and reliable information as the basis for better decision-making for warfighters.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 2a264ee5cd31b1877d2ed4a34f303374
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