A new online collection of NASA photographs and images provides a single point of entry to various photographic databases of six NASA centers. The NASA Image Exchange (NIX) at: nix.nasa.gov, provides an umbrella over existing photo databases at the centers, providing better access to photos for NASA personnel and the general public. Search capabilities of NIX include simple searches, complex searches, and browse searches (prebuilt searches on a number of preselected topics). NIX also provides tips to users on searching, copyright information, and a comments section.
The NIX effort, which was spearheaded by NASA's Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program Office at Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, is a voluntary association of STI, Public Affairs, Web, photographic, graphic, and library personnel from all 10 NASA centers. The STI Program Office is issuing grants to selected NASA centers for the expansion of the capability of NIX.