FBI National Data Exchange

The FBI National Data Exchange(N-DEx) provides the first implementation of structured search and index capabilities for the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program. All kinds of data (e.g., structured, [[full-text, multimedia) will be available through N-DEx, although searching, matching, and linking will only be possible on well-defined entities (people, vehicles, locations, weapons, phone numbers, etc.), not arbitrary text (full-text data). The initial focus is on structured incident data but will be expanded to other structured data (extracted entity data from full-text documents). N-DEx’s focus is on large agencies and aggregated data sources, such as RICs, but will expand to any law enforcement agency.