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Strategies for Information Retrieval and Virtual Teaming to Mitigate Risk on NASA's MissionsFollowing the loss of NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, it was determined that problems in the agency's organization created an environment that led to the accident. One component of the proposed solution resulted in the formation of the NASA Engineering Network (NEN), a suite of information retrieval and knowledge sharing tools. This paper describes the implementation of this set of search, portal, content management, and semantic technologies, including a unique meta search capability for data from distributed engineering resources. NEN's communities of practice are formed along engineering disciplines where users leverage their knowledge and best practices to collaborate and take informal learning back to their personal jobs and embed it into the procedures of the agency. These results offer insight into using traditional engineering disciplines for virtual teaming and problem solving.
Document ID
20090028742
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Topousis, Daria
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Williams, Gregory
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Murphy, Keri
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
November 6, 2007
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Meeting Information
Meeting: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Location: Lisbon
Country: Portugal
Start Date: November 6, 2009
End Date: November 9, 2009
Sponsors: Google, Inc.
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
communities of practices
search
knowledge management
portal

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