[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69562-69563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-22703]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OEI-2005-0015; FRL-7997-2]


Office of Environmental Information; Request for Comment and 
Request for Information on System Requirements Document for 
Environmental Terminology Services

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Request for comment and request for information.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to 
redesign its current Terminology Reference System (TRS) [see http://www.epa.gov/trs ] in order to better support future semantic Web needs, 
increase usability and integrate with other systems for enterprise-wide 
content management, search, and portal development. The agency has 
established the following requirements and is interested in receiving 
comments and information from potential bidders and experts in the 
field regarding these requirements.

DATES: Comments and or information must be submitted on or before 
November 28, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Spencer; Environmental 
Protection Agency; 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, MC 2822T; Washington, DC 
20460; Phone: 202-566-1651; Fax: 202-566-1624; E-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Agency is seeking a commercial off-the-
shelf (COTS) and/or Government off-the-shelf (GOTS) software package(s) 
to match the user/system requirements. The Agency will also consider 
customization of a COTS/GOTS and the integration of several COTS/GOTS 
products.
    Part of EPA's vision is to see the TRS evolve from being just a 
terminology repository, into a suite of Environmental Terminology 
Services (ETS). It will always remain a repository for environmental 
terminology and terminology structures (taxonomies, thesauri, 
ontologies, dictionaries, etc.). However, the environmental terminology 
contained in the repository will be enriched. Through use and curation, 
the TRS will evolve from a term-based system to a concept-based system. 
The concepts the ETS contains, along with their terms and definitions, 
will have sufficient metadata to enable those concepts to be used as 
the building blocks for the creation of business-driven Agency 
terminology structures (taxonomies, thesauri, etc.)

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The repository will also contain an authoritative controlled vocabulary 
for the Agency which can serve in the creation of glossaries for Web 
pages and documents, a common vocabulary for search engines, and in the 
development of rules and regulations.

I. General Information

A. How Can I Get Copies of These Documents and Other Related 
Information?

    1. Docket. EPA has established an official public docket for this 
action under Docket ID No. OEI-2005-0015. The official public docket is 
the collection of materials that is available for public viewing at the 
OEI Docket in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room B102, 1301 
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public 
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OEI 
Docket is (202) 566-1752.
    2. Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register'' 
listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.
    An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may 
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to view public comments, 
access the index listing of the contents of the official public docket, 
and to access those documents in the public docket that are available 
electronically. Although not all docket materials may be available 
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available 
docket materials through the docket facility identified in Unit I.B. 
Once in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the appropriate 
docket identification number.

    Dated: November 3, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Division Director, Collection Strategies Division, Office of 
Information Collection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
[FR Doc. 05-22703 Filed 11-15-05; 8:45 am]
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