THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT IDENTIFIES ALL MAJOR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ORIS PROJECT.

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• Publication Date: September 23, 1988
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:TITLE stitle='ORIS System Requirements Document'
TITLE. ORIS
:TITLE.System Requirements Document
:AUTHOR.Richard N. Leon
:ADDRESS
:ALINE.Office Of Information & Technology
:ALINE .Development Group
:ALINE.Development Division I
:ALINE.Branch II
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:DATE.September 23, 1988
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:TOC.Table Of Contents
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:HO.INTRODUCTION
:Hl .Purpose
The System Requirements Document identifies all major requirements
for the ORIS project.
:FN.ORIS (Officially Released Information System) is a proposed name
for the system and is Latin for "of the mouth." ORIS is intended to
capture what the CIA "says" as other systems capture what the CIA
collects through its "eyes and ears.":eFN
This document will ensure that both Development Group and Management
Group of Office Of Information and Technology
understand and agree on the requirements for ORIS.
:Hl .Scope
This document will identify the requirements for ORIS from
a system perspective. This document will also include the objectives
of the system from a customer perspective. Included in this document
will be the requirements needed to implement the ORIS system in terms
of functional, performance, security, hardware, human engineering,
interface and conversion.
:Hl.References
The following documents are available as references to this document:
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:LI.FORM 930 number 31 F76 100.
:LI.ORIS System Concept Document, Dated 19 May 1987
:LI.DECAL-II User Manual, Dated December 1981
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:HO.OVERVIEW
The ORIS project was begun in mid-1970s by Information Services Division
(ISD) to consider establishing an Agency-wide automated system that would
enable the Agency to know precisely what CIA information has been placed
in the public domain; to give Agency officials the capability to readily
determine what CIA information has been officially released and the
circumstances of the release. The efforts of development of the system
were never initiated because of some managerial disagreements and
insufficient hardware/software supports to meet all the requirements.
Thus, this project became inactive for several years.
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In April of 1987, ISD decided to re-activiate this project because they
felt that the system could be developed with new technological advancements.
:HO.OBJECTIVE
The primary objective of the ORIS is to provide ISD with a user-friendly
system containing information of officially released documents for .
purposes such as research, analysis, etc. puttudt 4
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Currently, the DECAL-II system is an on-line Generalized Information Management
System (GIMS) used by ISD. ISD is responsible for recording
selected documents that have been released, either in declassified or
sanitized form, as a result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Privacy
Act (PA), Executive Order (EO) mandatory review, and manuscript review
requests from the public. ORIS
The requester forwards a request form to the-staff to scan
for any documents in the DECAL-II system which contains a specific keyword
in the MUM subject line. The system returns the document number which p
was assigned and the ISD staff uses this number to locate the specific
microfiche containing the document. The microfiche is then pulled from
microfiche library and hard copies are made and then released to the
requestor.
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Developing the new proposed system to replace the old current system,
DECAL-II, will solve the following problems:
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:LI.Speed up the recording pr ess of newly released documents.
:LI. process or replace it with a better
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:LI.Use full-text search capability for a more accurate query.
:LI.Use the optical disk technology to replace microfiche to improve the
quality and speed up the dissemination process.
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:HO.REQUIREMENTS
:Hl.FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
:H2.DATA ENTRY
The ORIS system must provide the capability to electronically capture
the information on a document in text and
image after feeding a document into the scanner. Both text and image
data files must be indexed for cross reference and text data is
stored on the hard disk and the image is written permanently to the
optical disk.
:H2.QUERY
The system will have full-text, search capability for requester to search/
the documents in the file.
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--- Who should be able to do the search only?
(stand alone - anyone or mainframe - ISD)
:H2.REPORT GENERATION
--- What type of reports are needed? ---
The ORIS system must provide the capability to transmit an electronic
image to a laser printer in order to produce a hard copy of the document
:Hl.PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
:H2. STORAGE CAPABILITY
As of July 1988, the DECAL-II had approximately 18,000 documents and
141,000 pages, at an estimated seven to eight pages per document.
The storage capability of the disk for the ORIS system will vary as a
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function of the density of characters on a page, however the system
must be able to handle more than 250 thousand pages. This should be large
enough for data growth.
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--- What is the initial storage requirement in bytes? -
:H2 .TIMING
The ORIS system must be designed to perform much faster than the current
system in recording, search & retrieval, and dissemination processes.
:H2.BACKUP AND RESTORE
The system will include the procedures to backup the ORIS database and
restore the database if the primary database is corrupted or damp
:P
--- What is the storage requirement for this? ---
:Hl.SECURITY REQUIREMENTS
:H2.SYSTEM CLASSIFICATION
All released documents recorded in the ORIS system will be unclassified,
however the system will be classified Secret because of the presence
of document citations that tend to disclose covert locations that warrant
that level of protection.
:H2.HARDWARE
All hardware that will be operated in the ORIS system must be tempested.
:Hl.HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
:H2. SCANNER
A scanner will be required to read each document and covert it to a
data stream (both text and image) which can be stored on magentic and/or
optical disks.
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--- How many and how fast must the scanner be? ---
:H2.HIGH-RESOLUTION MONITOR
A high-resolution monitor will be required to edit/scan the image.
:P
--- How many? ---
:H2.0PTICAL DISK DRIVE
A optical disk drive will be required for the ORIS system to handle
the high-capacity, high-performance mass image storage.
:P
--- How many drive? ---
:H2.LASER PRINTER
A laser printer will be required to make high contrast quality plain
paper copy and can be distributed to the requester.
:P
--- Any other terminals needed? ---
:P
--- Will this be a pne workstation system?
:Hl.HUMAN ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS
:H2.User Friendly
The ORIS software must be very user friendly and must be implemented for
non-computer type personnel. This new system must allow for single key-stroke
input whenever possible.
:H2.Maneuverability
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Hi. INTERFACE REQUIREMENTS
Currently there will be no interfaces to the ORIS system. The database
will be maintained manually.
:111 .CONVERSION REQUIREMENTS
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All released documents currently stored in the microfiche ibrary wi I be
manually converted to the ORIS system by ISD personnel.
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--- How? Who is responsible? ---
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