INIS and Technology Knowledge Preservation

The initial focus for any IAEA programme of work of this nature would be the selection of a few core technologies, with the potential for growth into other technology areas. Once agreement had been reached, and experts identified, a strategy could be developed which would lead to an output that would be of the widest possible benefit. The features of such a synthesis of know ledge on any given technology could include: - Documents within the open literature: - Key reports, conference papers, journal articles, books; Written, and peer reviewed, by the experts; INIS bibliographic details, enriched by specialist knowledge on the significance and context of this work. - Web-sites: - Information about the key individuals in the field Further authoritative knowledge of a ''work in progress'' nature e.g Technical Working Groups; collaborative research programmes Information about specialist organisations in the field Knowledge creation Seminars, attended by experts, captured on video New commentaries on earlier work Production of state-of-the art reviews The resulting technology ''knowledge package'' would be structured to reflect the knowledge aspects that the programme was designed to capture. Each ''knowledge package'' would be presented to the erid user as a specialised knowledge base, complementary to the INIS database.