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

斯坦福大学数字政府：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和有益。目的是提高公众获取和检索政府规章的能力，并为规章的使用者、制订者和批评者提供支持。众所周知，法规的复杂性、多样性和数量对商业是有害的，也阻碍了公众对政府的理解。改善这种情况的方法是深入了解问题，然后开发能够支持不同参与方之间的交互和协作的工具。在拟议的分布式信息服务框架中，政府管制信息将联机提供，供设计人员、检查人员和管制政策机构使用。基础设施包括作为基础的存储库，更重要的是，包括用于定位、合并、比较和分析信息的工具。这种应用程序基础设施将以一种智能的方式利用现在对公众广泛可用的通信和计算资源。新的网络访问、搜索和分析工具将有助于传播监管数据，并允许查找和比较多个相关数据来源。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项目提供。

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.