NCDC Information Technology Access System (ITAS)

Presented by Ken Schmidt
April 2006
Advisor: Dr. Brownsmith

Problem Statement

The National Climatic Data Center's Information Technology (IT) branch uses several dissimilar knowledge bases in support of the organization's goals. These knowledge bases, which contain technical data ranging from user data to typical solutions to hardware specifications and architecture designs, are isolated pockets of information; and because they do not interoperate, they do not effectively communicate their contents.

Designed Solution

The end product, still in development, is an interface that will allow interaction with each knowledge base system from one centralized web page (http://www3.ncdc.noaa.gov/itas/).

This web-based interface allows queries across all knowledge bases and returns results in one place. This requires interaction with multiple database formats. Upon phase one's completion, this interface will not only allow queries into each system, but will allow the end-user to submit changes or new information into the appropriate knowledge base(s) as well.