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Department of Energy's Fossil Research and Energy Development Database
October 2, 1998 - The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the U.S. Department of Energy is
engaged in Coal, Oil and Gas research and development. This research
is conducted at several geographically-dispersed field sites around
the country. Approximately 500 R&D projects are active at any given
time. FE has developed a real-time project fact sheet information
system for use by the research scientists responsible for project
management that is also accessible by the public via the World Wide
Web. Information in this online database is responsive to the needs
of external audiences including industry partners, universities,
members of Congress, educators, state and local government officials
and other interested taxpayers-both laymen and technical.
This fact sheet information system is an extension of a real-time
internal network of technical R&D data that shares information among
the many FE sites involved in its conduct and management. Lotus Notes
replication technology is utilized over an internal network by all FE
sites, including field and Headquarters. A subset of summary level
data is further processed and relayed through a Lotus Domino Web
server and made available to the general public on a 7x24
basis. Information relating to the 500+ projects are updated real-time
as internal information is changed.
This use of information technology has centralized the information to
"one-stop shopping" and made it easily available to taxpayers via the
Internet. No longer is the information scattered among numerous
remote research sites with availability limited to normal office
hours, whatever that may be in differing time zones. The Lotus Notes
Search engine assists the information seeker with tools to easily find
relevant documents. Research scientists and their E-mail addresses
are also provided for further information.
Lotus Domino web site logs indicate that thousands of users access
this information monthly. This information service to the public has
essentially been provided with no more manpower costs than is already
conducted internally on a routine basis. Service is improved and
costs are reduced. Now the taxpayer has a virtual direct connection
for all Fossil Energy R&D between his/her desktop and that of the
research scientist directly responsible for the R&D project.
The Fossil Research and Energy Development database can be accessed via
http://www.fe.doe.gov under "tech info" and "R&D projects". DOE point of
contact is Robert Ladesic, 301-903-2640, email at bob.ladesic@hq.doe.gov.
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