NIST plans to survey its summer interns to discover their “technological preferences for receiving and integrating content.†The Millennial Generation, as NIST calls the kids born between 1982 and 2000 (after Generation Y, if you're keeping track) are the digital natives that have grown up with information technology. NIST wants to find out how and where these kids get their information, what kind of commercial products and platforms are helpful, and, of course, what they like in collaboration tools. The findings, NIST says, “will impact how digital scientific content is harvested, identified using metadata, stored, accessed, and disseminated.â€
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