The Information Revolution: Impact on Science and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XX

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2. Emergence of an Information Society Facts and Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Information Highways Internet and Web Services

      1. Dealing with the Data Deluge. Visualization and Data Management

         • Nahum Gershon, William Ruh, Brian Dickens, Joshua Levasseur, Joel Winstead

         Pages 3-12

      2. Content-Based Information Retrieval: New Tools for Textual Data, New Problems for Image Data

         • Fionn Murtagh

         Pages 13-20

      3. The World-Wide Web: A Global Source of Data and Information

         • Joel Winstead, Nahum Gershon

         Pages 21-28

      4. Structuring and Visualizing Hyperspace with Hyper-G

         • Frank Kappe

         Pages 29-42

      5. Internet-Web and St Data Management: Harmonization and New Horizons

         • Jacques-Emile Dubois, Belhadri Messabih

         Pages 43-56

      6. Online Electronic Publishing: Developing Infrastructure for the Electronic Reader

         • Barbara E. Kirsop, Andy Edwards, Sidnei Souza

         Pages 57-62

      7. A Workbench for Bibliographic or Factual Data Handling

         • Jacques Ducloy, Jean-Charles Lamirel, Emmanuel Nauer

         Pages 63-70

   3. Obstacles to a Free or Fair Circulation of Scientific Data

      1. A Few Facets of the Kaleidoscope of Scientific Information

         • André Heck

         Pages 71-82

      2. ICSU Policy on Access to Data and Information

         • Michael A. Chinnery

         Pages 83-86

      3. Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data

         • Shelton Alexander, Paul F. Uhlir

         Pages 87-92

      4. Legal and Economic Aspects of Data Production and Transfer

         • George Papapavlou

         Pages 93-100

      5. Guidelines of a European Meteorological Services Policy on Data Exchange

         • Bartolomé Orfila

         Pages 101-106

   4. Distributed Data and Information Networks

      1. Integrated Ground-Based and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Global Studies of Environmental Change

         • Richard J. Olson, Robert S. Turner, Charles T. Garten Jr.

         Pages 107-112

      2. Critical Factors for the Use of Public Databases

         • Arild Jansen, Pål Sorgaard

         Pages 113-122

      3. The NASA Astrophysics Data System: A Heterogeneous Distributed Data Environment

         • Michael J. Kurtz, Guenther Eichhorn, Stephen S. Murray, Carolyn Stern-Grant, Alberto Accomazzi

         Pages 123-130

      4. Computer Networks with Episodic Links and the Use of Portable Computers

         • Jean-Charles Profizi

         Pages 131-140

      5. Dynamic Management of Cooperative Applications for Mobile Systems

         • Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy, Phillipe Darche, Bertil Folliot

         Pages 141-148

3. Worldwide and Regional Information Systems Policies and Programs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-150

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J.-E. Dubois and N. Gershon This book was inspired by the Symposium on "Communications and Computer Aided Systems" held at the 14th International CODATA Conference in September 1994 in Chambery, France. It was conceived and influenced by the discussions at the symposium and most of the contributions were written following the Conference. This is the first comprehensive book, published in one volume, of issues concerning the challenges and the vital impact of the information revolution (including the Internet and the World Wide Web) on science and technology. Topics concerning the impact of the information revolution on science and technology include: • Dramatic improvement in sharing of data and information among scientists and engineers around the world • Collaborations (on-line and off-line) of scientists and engineers separated by distance . • Availability of visual tools and methods to view, understand, search, and share information contained in data • Improvements in data and information browsing, search and access and • New ways of publishing scientific and technological data and information. These changes have dramatically modified the way research and development in science and technology are being carried out. However, to facilitate this information flow nationally and internationally, the science and technology communities need to develop and put in place new standards and policies and resolve some legal issues.

• Communication
• Internet
• Kommunikation
• Sientific Data
• Web Services
• Wissenschaftliche Daten
• bioinformatics
• computer
• databases
• development
• multimedia

• Institut de Topologie et de Dynamique des Systèmes (ITODYS), Université Denis Diderot Paris VII, Paris, France

  Jacques-Emile Dubois

• The MITRE Corporation, McLean, USA

  Nahum Gershon

Policies and ethics