Declassification Productivity Research Center quarterly report {number_sign}7, September 25--December 31, 1997

This report describes the progress achieved by the Declassification Productivity Research Center (DPRC) during the first quarter of its third year of operations. Progress has accelerated as the DPRC has gotten more involved with the federal declassification community, and has found meaningful ways to be of service to DOE and other agencies of the government. Accordingly, there is an excellent project log to present in this report. Moreover, this year the DPRC has received its first funding from agencies other than DOE, to signal a new mode of operation in its relationship to the declassification community at large. The DPRC was established as an independent, world-class research capability and computer facility to support the DOE Declassification Productivity Initiative (DPI). The goal of DPI is to increase the flow of unrestricted government information to the public. To this end, the work involves both basic and applied research in the areas of (1) system-level declassification process analysis and modeling, (2) development of computer systems to automate declassification processes, including text analysis and interpretation, (3) coordination/integration of new technology among into the processes, and (4) development and promulgation of inter-operability and document transfer standards