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70 -- CD-ROM SOFTWARE POC Kimberly A. Kleeb (703) 648-7370 This is not a notice for a solicitation. This is a Request for Information (RFI). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will be assessing commercial solutions for placing large-volume printout and microfiche information onto CD-Recordable (CD-R) media. Companies desiring to participate must have the ability to fully index print-image information and make this information accessible in both fielded and full-text modes from CD-R discs. In addition, this access must be available on a stand-alone CD-ROM- equipped PC, over a LAN from a CD-ROM server, from a 3270 terminal, as well as over the Internet using standard WEB browsers. Security and lockout capabilities must also be available to limit access to the indexed information at both the report and page level. Interested companies are requested to build a demonstration database using a print-image test file named ~DEMOREPT~ (approximately 8 megabytes in size). The compressed self-extracting version of this file can be downloaded from the USGS FTP site (ftp.usgs.gov/pub/rfiproto) as the file named ~DEMO.EXE~ and then executed on a DOS machine to re-create the full DEMOREPT print-image file. The DEMOREPT file consists of a sample print-image file that is to be indexed, placed on a CD-R disc, and made available by the vendor for remote access via the Internet. The file should be indexed two ways: full-text and fielded. The full-text index should allow access to the report based on any character string search term. For example, if the user were to type ~SIMS, LAUREN~ as the search string, the software would display Page 2 of the report and highlight the corresponding search term. The second type of access to the print-image file should be ~fielded~ index. This type of index would allow the user to select a particular field on the report such as ~OFFICE TOTALS:~ and then provide a value to search upon. This fielded search should also be able to accommodate a ~range search~ such that the user, for example, could request to see any ~OFFICE TOTAL:~ that exceeded the value of ~$100,000.~ It would also be valuable if another index field could be established for the ~VOUCHER~ number, such that a search could be made for all pages where the VOUCHER number was equal to ~530084001.~ As soon as the demonstration database is ready for examination, a message to this effect should be emailed to the address of ~cnethawa@usgs.gov~ with a cc to ~kkleeb@usgs.gov~ no later than July 29, 1996. The demonstration must be accessible over the Internet and, an appropriate URL address must be included in the email message. Also, a point of contact (name and phone number) should be included in the email message. Any questions regarding the test file shall be submitted to ~cnethawa@usgs.gov~ with a cc to ~kkleeb@usgs.gov~. Participating vendors are responsible for periodically checking the USGS FTP address for updates and/or additional instructions. Pricing information and corporate literature is not requested and will not be considered as part of this assessment. This request is not a formal solicitation and NO contract will result from this synopsis. Any subsequent solicitation will be synopsized prior to its release. The Government will not pay for demonstration databases provided in response to this synopsis. (0194)

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