NASA funds a number of information programs and repositories. I know this because our program manages one of them (the NASA Technical Reports Server at
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/). Is this information used? Absolutely! International organizations are clamoring at the door to get the information. National entities are scooping up the information as fast as we can get it ready. Is NASA using it as effectively as we can? Does each new NASA project or program determine if their proposed work has been done previously and if so, do they use the previous results to inform and guide their present work? After a NASA workshop, would another participant come away from it thinking what I thought of the Charlottesville workshop participants: that we in NASA seek, use, and benefit from the value of information?
No comments:
Post a Comment