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'Old' Linear, sequential process for creation-distribution of printed information.



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'New" 3-Diminsional Creation/National Peer Review/Revision of Extension-Education Information for Electronic Dissemination includes three major innovations:

  1. Nation-wide distribution of workload.
  2. Information created in linked-chunks for quick retrieval of specific, concise information and to facilitate inquiry-driven information retrieval to meet individual needs.
  3. National peer-review through academic societies, e.g. American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) American Society for Information Sciences (ASIS), and Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE).



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National focus of the individual subject/commodity/program information systems comprising GISDS will be at the respective USDA CSREES 'Program Leaders' in the Plant and Animal Production, Protection and Processing (PAPPP), Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), Rural Economic and Social Development (RESD), and the Family, 4-H and Nutrition (F4HN) Programs.



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Within the PAPP there will be several information systems and subsystems within 'animals' (eg National Dairy Database, National Swine Database, National Sheep Database...) and within 'plants' (eg Forage Information System and HortBase which might be further divided into the Vegetable Information System, Tree Fruit Information System, Flower Crop Production, Home Horticulture Information System,...).



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Clientele will provide guidance and feedback to the respective information system creators.



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The overall Global Information System for Decision Support includes the information systems for each of the USDA CSREES subjecs/ programs/ commodities (SPCs).



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Each SPC will have a homepage on the WWW with links to the GISDS and to related topics such as 'discussion groups', 'organizations', 'meetings and events', 'research projects'... The homepage will be a one-stop information shopping center for that specific subject/program or commodity.



 

 

 Last updated March 1, 1996.