Cross Industry Working Team

A multi-industry coalition committed to defining the architecture and key technical requirements for a powerful, sustainable national information infrastructure (NII).

D-Lib and D-Lib Magazine

D-Lib is a forum for researchers and developers of advanced digital libraries. D-Lib magazine provides monthly stories, commentary, and briefings, together with a collection of resources for digital library research.

Defense Virtual Library

The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), and CNRI are working to extend and transfer CNRI's Digital Object Architecture work into a pilot digital library implementation adapted to DTIC's needs and using DTIC data.

Digital Object Architecture

Digital Object Architecture continues the architectural work of the DARPA-funded Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR) project. That project developed a framework for distributed digital object services and implemented some of the key components. This project includes two extensive testbeds, one with the Copyright Office and the second with the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress.

Digital Object Identifier System

CNRI is working with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) to develop a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System, a standard method for identifying digital content for the publishing industry, using the CNRI Handle System as the underlying technology.

Electronic Payments Forum

The EPF was initiated in November, 1995, to provide a mechanism for information exchange and to identify and examine issues regarding financial payment systems on the Internet. The EPF is organized under the auspices of CommerceNet, the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) and the Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT), who are dedicated to the advancement of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII).

Grail and Python

Grail is an extensible Internet browser written entirely in the interpreted object-oriented programming language Python. Grail version 0.3b3 (the third beta of Grail 0.3) was released on 12 March 1997. Python is a portable, interpreted, object-oriented programming language developed over the past five years at CWI in Amsterdam.

The Handle System

The Handle System is a distributed computer system which names digital objects and stores the names and the information that is needed to locate and access these items via the Internet.

Infrastructure History Series

CNRI is sponsoring a series of studies that address historical examples of large-scale infrastructures. Studies have been completed on railroads, telephones and telegraphs, electricity, and banking.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

CNRI hosts the secretariat for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of Internet architecture and protocols.

Knowbot Information Service (KIS)

KIS is a locator which searches various Internet directory services to find someone's street address, email address and phone number.

Knowbot Programs

Knowbot Programs are mobile agents intended for use in widely distributed systems like the Internet. CNRI is developing an infrastructure for Knowbot Programs. A free prototype implementation in Python is under development.

MAGIC

MAGIC-II, a collaborative project involving seven major participants, will develop a large-scale distributed information system based on a very general paradigm in which high-performance computing, storage, and communications are used to provide rapid access to real-time data sources and to large volumes of stored data, the existence and locations of which may not be known in advance. Applications that use this paradigm arise in a variety of situations including military operations, intelligence imagery analysis, and natural disasters.

National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress

CNRI is working with the Library of Congress to provide technology for the National Digital Library Program. This includes the repository system for managing the collections and the handle system for identifying digital objects.

Repository Architecture

CNRI's Repository System is part of the digital object architecture. It provides a general purpose system for the deposit, storage, and dissemination of digital objects.

US Copyright Office

The US Copyright Office CORDS system provides electronic registration, and deposit of digital objects for copyright.

Computer Science Technical Reports Project

The Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR) project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, developed network access to archives of technical information in the domain of computer science, with the goal of evolving knowledge in the field of information storage, search, and retrieval. The Digital Object Architecture Project continues the architecture work of the CS-TR project.

Gigabit Testbed Initiative

The Gigabit Testbed Initiative was a major effort by approximately forty organizations representing universities, telecommunication carriers, industry and national laboratories, and computer companies to create a set of very high-speed network testbeds and to explore their application to areas such as weather modeling, chemical dynamics, radiation oncology, and geophysics data exploration. This effort was funded by the national Science foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and by industry.