Therefore the GIO has decided to match this trend and provide a data search service. The GIO has selected the Information Times Company, the one most commonly consulted by the American media and scholarly community, to establish the National Situation Data Bank.
新聞局有鑑於此，決定配合這項資訊發展趨勢，提供查詢服務，並選擇一般美國新聞界及學術界較常使用的「資料時報」公司設立「國情資料庫」。