SBIR Phase I: Targeted Information Products Built from a Curated Knowledge Base

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目解决了集成高级计算和管理技术的问题。精选的知识资源在基因组学等领域很重要，但在可再生能源等其他领域尚未产生重大影响。精选知识产品的目的是在一个信息分散、用户难以客观收集的领域提供全面、非冗余、简洁和公正的信息。Garbrook建立了一个百科全书式的知识库--高级生物燃料资源，为生物燃料社区组织科学、商业和政策相关的信息。这项提议将开发自动化方法，从这样的资源中生产多种有针对性的信息产品。对于技术、商业和政策信息的许多用户来说，信息环境杂乱无章，令人困惑。除了学术出版物、咨询报告、来自政策组织的白皮书和政府网站外，互联网现在还包含各种时事通讯、行业协会网站、博客和其他媒体报道。这个问题的解决方案不是增加站点，而是为精选知识资源制定新的标准，以减少混乱。Garbrook建议建立技术来自动分割被管理的内容，以建立一个全面的资源，将其转化为适用于社区不同部门的有针对性的知识产品。结合其计算技术和培训代理策展人的能力，Garbrook定位于在未来为与能源和环境相关的主题构建更多的知识产品。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses the problem of integrating advanced computational and curation techniques. Curated knowledge resources are important in fields like genomics, but have not yet made a significant impact in other fields like renewable energy. The purpose of a curated knowledge product is to provide comprehensive, non-redundant, concise, and unbiased information in a field where information is otherwise scattered and hard for users to gather objectively. Garbrook has built an encyclopedic knowledge base, the Advanced Biofuels Resource, to organize scientific, commercial, and policy-related information for the Biofuels community. This proposal will develop automated methods to produce multiple targeted information products from such a resource. For many users of technical, commercial, and policy information, the information landscape is cluttered and confusing. The Internet now contains a wide variety of newsletters, trade association sites, blogs, and other media reports, in addition to scholarly publications, consulting reports, white papers from policy organizations, and government sites. The solution to this problem is not more sites, but a new standard for curated knowledge resources to reduce the clutter. Garbrook proposes to build technology to automatically segment curated matter to establish a comprehensive resource into targeted knowledge products suitable for various sectors of the community. Combining its computational technology and its ability to train agent curators, Garbrook is positioned to build additional knowledge products in the future for topics related to energy and the environment.