Digital Government: REGBASE: A Distributed Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance Checking

EIA-9983368 Law，Kincho H.Stanford University数字政府：REGBASE：用于法规管理和合规性检查的分布式信息基础设施本研究项目建议开发一个正式但实用的基础设施(REGBASE)，以支持国家努力使政府法规公开并受益。其目的是加强公众对政府条例的获取和检索，并为条例的使用者、制定者和批评者提供支持。人们已经很好地认识到，法规的复杂性、多样性和数量不利于商业，也阻碍了公众对政府的理解。改善这种情况的手段是深入了解问题，然后开发能够支持不同参与方之间的互动和合作的工具。在拟议的分布式信息服务框架中，政府监管信息将在线提供，供设计者、检查人员和监管政策机构使用。基础设施包括作为基础的存储库，更重要的是，还包括用于定位、合并、比较和分析信息的工具。这个应用程序基础设施将以智能的方式利用现在广泛向公众提供的通信和计算资源。新的网络接入、搜索和分析工具将有助于传播监管数据，并允许查找和比较相关数据的多个来源。该项目的部分支持由美国国家科学基金会工程局的信息技术和基础设施系统计划提供。

EIA-9983368Law, Kincho H.Stanford UniversityDigital Government: REGBASE: A Distributed Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance CheckingThis research project proposes to develop a formal, but practical infrastructure (REGBASE) to support national efforts to make governmental regulations publicly and beneficially available. The objective is to enhance the access and retrieval of government regulations by the public, as well as to provide support for the users, framers and critics of the regulations. It has been well recognized that the complexity, diversity, and volume of regulations are detrimental to business and also hinder public understanding of government. The means to improve the situation is to understand the issues in depth, and then develop tools that can support the interaction and collaboration among different parties involved. In the proposed distributed information service framework, governmental regulatory information will be made available on-line for use by designers, inspectors and regulatory policy bodies. The infrastructure includes repositories as a base and, more importantly, tools to locate, merge, compare, and analyze the information. This application infrastructure will exploit in an intelligent way the communication and computational resources that are now widely available to the public. New network access, search and analysis tools will help disseminate regulatory data and allow finding and comparing multiple sources of related data. Partial support for this project is provided by the Information Technology and Infrastructure Systems program of NSF's Directorate for Engineering.