Integrated Project

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The Agriculture Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Beltsville MD intends to negotiate and award on a Sole Source Justification.  A purchase order be one-year firm fixed price awarded to Thomas Baker (Plain Semantics). 

The project integrates assessment to recommend or apply changes to IIB overall business operations and workflows, and state of the art technology. The expected outcomes are to 1) develop quality metrics and increase automation of NAL subject indexing using NALT, and 2) support quality assessment and curation of NALT itself through automation, and 3) through the engagement of subject matter experts, and 4) allow NAL to provide relevant, new state-of-the-art tools and services for the agricultural research and library communities.

Mr. Baker will lead assessment and integration of changes to overall business operations and workflows, and state-of-the-art technology for thesaurus design and curation, and the overall project coordination and communication. (WP1, WP3 of the SOW, with support for WP2)

 The anticipated date of award will be on or about: 08/05/2020.