Since the last annual report, ADL has continued to work with significant number of partners from the commercial, government, and university sectors. Old partners with whom a significant level of continuing or new activity occurred during the past year include: the Central Imagery Office (CIO) and the Defense Mapping Agency, which merged in November 1996 into the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA); Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI); GEOREF; Hughes; NASA; Oracle; San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC); the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP); Utah State University and the Mojave Database Cooperative; the United States Geological Survey (USGS); the United States Navy NAVO facility at Stennis; the United States Navy NRaD facility at San Diego; new partners with whom significant levels of activity began in the preceding year include GEOREF; Microsoft.
It is clear that these partnerships are not only beneficial to ADL, but are in may senses essential to the success of the project, both in terms of supporting important research activities and in moving towards an operational digital library.
We now summarize interactions with all partners during the preceding year, focusing in particular on partnerships that involved significant levels of activity.