International identification and 'white and grey literature': Identities, retrieval, reuse and the certainty of knowledge while sharing and connecting information

We consider the usefulness of a dynamic model for cross-sharing and cross-use of data, metadata and identifiers, that allow international agencies to pool or exchange their information collections, avoiding duplications when same data match in more than one archive. Moreover, this model could be easily supported by current techniques for information retrieval via linked data. Obviously the aim would not to create the nth super archive, but to encourage the disseminated allocation of multiple information, that could be found or summarized just when searched by users. Necessary condition is the cooperation among the agencies. The goal of this study is showing which consequence could represent a general improvement of the public information quality level, thanks to the exponential circulation of authoritative data: "lowcost" for agencies, publicly available for everybody, and easy update according to rigorous certified criteria.