Her primary focus in the ALCOM/NIST Heterogeneous Structures Project is network-accessible information description and retrieval. Specific groups of terms in related areas have been developed among the scientists with the growth of the Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) subject domain. A next step in the project is to develop a knowledge organization structure related to liquid crystal research building upon the thesaurus and classification tools in place. The knowledge structure will incorporate the multiple domains represented within the project, the interests and needs of applied and basic research, and will capitalize on distributed information services.