[Purpose/significance]With the rapid development of information and network technology,the importance of open source information is increasing day by day.Nowadays,the competition between countries is the competition of scientific and technological forces.Mastering the scientific and technological frontier is the key to the success of scientific and technological competition.It is also one of the core tasks of information work serving the national scientific and technological strategy.[Method/process] This paper puts forward and expounds the concept and connotation of scientific and technological frontier.Combining with service needs of frontier identification and processing mode of information research,a frontier identification system under open source information is constructed.[Result/conclusion] The paper sets up four-layer structure model of frontier identification system,including data layer,data processing and perception layer,computing and perception layer and description layer,and exposition of the paper focuses on the functional design and technical framework of each level.