IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency

International Atomic Energy Agency

INIS Training Seminar

FUTURE OF INIS

Dobrica SavićHead of INIS Unit

23-27 November 2009Vienna, Austria

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Changing Environment Complexity of the Future Planning Task Elements of the Future Directional Pillars INIS Technological Challenges Conclusions

Presentation Overview

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Characteristics of the environment• The state of world’s economy• Fast pace of steady change

Organizations need to examine• What they do• How they do it

To keep relevance and their role organizations need to• Reposition • Reinvent themselves

Changing Environment

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Common wisdom tells • We need to learn from the past • We need to work hard today • We must plan for tomorrow

Complexity of the task• How to find organization’s inner self?• How to define its goals?• How to plan for the future?• What should be taken into consideration?

Complexity of the Future Planning Task

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Elements to use when defining the future

• Purpose of the organization• What the organization stands for• It expends further than its products.

• Business model• The way we carry out our business• Difference between “us” and the “others”• Redefining and reinventing vs. committing to the existing one

• Tools and means• Used for achieving business goals, making products or delivering services• Require constant change

• Growth• Companies that grow for the sake of growth rarely survive downturn and difficult times • Sustainable growth should be driven by quality, not quantity

Future Definition Elements

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• INIS purpose• Larger than its products• Provide to the world an easy access to nuclear information for peaceful use

• INIS "business" model• A self-governed, not for profit, collaborative system of member states and

international organizations• INIS tools and means

• INIS is inseparable from the information technology it uses• Future tools and means to be outside the ordinary• Creative and innovative in order to achieve desired purpose

• INIS growth• To continue accumulation of world nuclear literature• Focus on quality growth achievable through continuous use of reliable

nuclear information provided by recognized sources• Full texts

Directional Pillars

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Constraints• Increased expectations from information consumers• Aging and fragmented INIS technology• Lack of standardization

Challenges• Consolidating dispersed INIS repositories• Improving access to the INIS database• Standardizing and upgrading INIS input and processing technology• Becoming part of broader information systems (e.g. World Wide Science, Google Scholar, etc.)

INIS Technological Challenges

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• Forty years of INIS existence is a proof of its usefulness to the world of nuclear science and technology

• Current hard work and constant improvements are good signs of its sustainability

• Clear and distinct direction are the only guarantors for its future relevance and leading place in providing the world with reliable nuclear information for peaceful use

Conclusions

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Thank you!