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Symposium on Data, Information and Knowledge: Principles, Methodologies,
Systems and Policies
Dr. Nahum Gershon
MITRE Corporation
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd.
McLean, VA 22102-3481 US
Phone: +1 703 883 7518
Fax: +1 703 883 3615
Theme
I-1: Uncertainty in Knowledge Interpretation and Fuzzy
Data – Dr. A. Gvishiani (Russia)
The major initial data
sets in Earth and environmental sciences are fuzzy by definition.
A similar picture can be observed in a number of other sciences;
the initial data are uncertain. Such data sets become more and
more huge; this increases the fuzziness and uncertainty of extracted
knowledge. Therefore, new mathematical methods of fuzzy logic
and artificial intelligence are becoming more and more important
in data studies and knowledge extraction and interpretation. The
session "Uncertainly in knowledge interpretation and fuzzy
data" will focus on applications of fuzzy logic to knowledge
extraction and interpretation. It will encompass environmental
and Earth science data, as well as all other types of data to
which a fuzzy logic approach is applicable. The goal of the session
is to provide a forum for theoretical and experimental researchers,
data and knowledge base developers and administrators to discuss
fuzzy logic methods and algorithms in their application to data
management and knowledge interpretation.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Comparative Mathematical
Methods of Geophysical Data Handling: Clustering and Fuzzy Clustering
A. Gvishiani, Russia, M. Diament, France, A. Galdeano, France,
S. Agajan, Russia, Sh. Bogoutdinov, Russia, A. Beriozko, Russia.
New Methods to Qualify
Complex Systems Behaviour for Strategic Choices in Uncertainty
and Fuzzy Data
Albert Truyol, France
Pushing Theoretical
Molecular Calculations Closer to Experimental Data: Approximate
but Realistic Estimates of Bond Properties of Alkylamines
E.C. Vauthier, EL Cavalieri, Sfliszar and A. Cosse-Barbi, France
Visualization of Imperfect
Information & Data
Nahum Gershon, USA
Data and Complex Management
Tools: Decision Making Processes in an Heterogeneous Framework
J-P. Caliste, France
Encoding Measurement
Units and Uncertainty in XML Datatypes
R. Dragoset, B.N. Taylor, NIST, F. Olken, J. McCarthy, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
Theme
I-2: Management of Data, Information and Knowledge – Dr.
J. Gravallese and N. Gershon (US)
Management of Data,
Information, and Knowledge Increasing amounts of data and information
and the availability of fast digital network access (e.g., the
World Wide Web) have created a demand for querying, accessing,
and retrieving information and data. There are however some road
blocks to the success of the information highway. They include
- Adequate information
and knowledge management strategies and methodologies which
will support access and retrieval for distributed and heterogeneous
data sources
- Data mining strategies
that work effectively in extracting relevant pieces of information
and knowledge
- Effective visualizations
to enable users to use the information highway easily and efficiently
While computer and
information research and development have created methods for
management of data, information, and knowledge, commercial, defense,
and finance industries and science have developed effective practical
applications of these methods dealing with large amounts of data.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Processes, Tools, &
People in Information and Knowledge Management.
Julie Gravallese, MITRE, USA.
Complex Management
Methodology Based on Qualified Data
How to Trend Specialists in Alternative University Curricula
R Dubois, France, Jean-Pierre Caliste, France, Christian Bourret,
France
Data Management Exercises
With Microclimatic Data- Easy Tool
S. Krishnamurthy, G.B. Pezzatti and J.M. Favre
The Knowledge-based
INI-GraphicsNet
J. Kohlhammer, L. Karle, C. Hornung and J. Hornung
Information Quality
on the World Wide Web
A. Oberweiss, P. Perc, Goethe-University Frankfurt
XML: The Natural Choice
for Knowledge Management
Nandita Kapila. Ministry for Information Technology, India
Round Table Discussion
Julie Gravallese, Dave Snowden, Nahum Gershon
Theme
I-3: Integration of Heterogeneous Databases and Data Warehousing
– Prof. H. Bestougeff (France) and Dr. B. Thuraisingham (US)
Quite frequently in
science and industry, data and information systems are and have
been built independently yielding highly heterogeneous and distributed
systems producing fragmented views of data and information. Heterogeneity
is found at different levels:
- Different data representations
and data models for similar objects.
- Different available
operators to manipulate information units and their relationship
(especially different reasoning strategies and tools found in
various knowledge-based systems).
- Semantic differences
and ambiguities (e.g., different meanings of one term in different
areas or organizations.
- Different user interfaces.
This creates a difficulty
as users need systems that are able to share and exchange information
on a global basis in such a way that it is not necessary to know
the detailed structure of each local data system and learn the
different access methods.
One way to meet this
objective is integration and standardization, emphasizing when
appropriate the information management aspect of the problem.
Subject oriented datawarehouses are, in this context, a particular
solution allowing further knowledge mining processes.
The goal of this Session
is to present and discuss the different approaches to integration
and datawarehousing.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Conceptual MetaCube
Professor Nguyen
A Translator Compiler
for Interoperable Information Systems
Professor Nicolle, France
A Logic-Agent Based
System for Semantic Integration
Professor Sadri, UK
Building Secure Data
Warehouse Schemas from Federated Information Systems
Professor Saltor, Spain
An Implementation of
Database Integration Strategies
Professor Scopim, Brazil
Developing an Active
Data Warehouse System
Professor Shi-Ming Huang, Yu-Chung Hung, Irene Kwan and Yuan-Mao
Hung, China
Poster Sessions
Integration Methodology
for Heterogeneous Databases
Professor Salzano, France
Integration and Metadata
Assisted Inquiry in Public Statistical Information Systems
Professor Anglioni, Italy.
Adaptive Mapping Model
for Data Clustering and Visualization
Professor Lamirel, France
An Architecture for
Data Warehouse Systems Using and Heterogeneous Data Management
System-Heros
Professor Silva, Brazil
Semantic Schemata Integration
in the Mads
Professor Sotnykova
Integration of Keyword
Based Source Search and Structure based Information Retrieval
Professor Suzuki, Japan
A Statistical Based
Model for the Sample Data Production Process of Data Warehouse
Professor Huynh
On Systems Management
in Federated Information Systems
Professor Rodriguez, Spain
Theme
I-4/Theme I-5: Knowledge Discovery Session and Visualization
of Information and Data: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From
Here? – N. Gershon (US)
Increasing amounts of
data and information and the availability of fast digital network
access (e.g., the World Wide Web) have created a demand for querying,
accessing, and retrieving information and data. Information
visualization is an increasingly important research and development
area and is crucial for the success of the information revolution.
Effective visualizations will enable users from all walks of life
to use the information highway easily and efficiently.
The Session on "Visualization
of Information and Data: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From
Here?" will focus on all aspects of visualizing information and
data and how users interact with digital information. It will
foster an exchange of ideas on all aspects of information visualization
and human-information interaction. The goals of the Session are
to bring together some of the most active and well known researchers
and developers in Information Visualization to discuss the following:
- Surveying what is
currently being done in information visualization
- Identifying future
research and development issues and trends in visualization
of information and data and discussing how advances in interactive
computer graphics hardware, mass storage, and data visualization
could be used to visualize information
- Forging research
collaborations.
Submitted abstracts
include:
The Application of
the GeoInsight Approach for Spatio-Temporal Data Mining of Environmental
Data Sets
M. Wachowicz, The Netherlands
Knowledge Discovery
for CODATA: Possibilities and Limitations
Zdzisaw S. Hippe., University of Technology, Poland.
Recognition of Similarities
in Image Databases
Juliusz L. Kulikowski. Polish Academy of Sciences
The Times They Are
A-Changin" Visualization of Dynamic Information using 3D Metaphoric
Worlds
P. Gros, P. Abel, C. Russo Dos Santos, D. Loisel and J.P. Paris,
France
Visual Information
Retrieval for the Web
H. Reiterer and T.M. Mann, Germany
Visualization for
3D Information and Knowledge in Earth Sciences
Jean-Jacques Royer
A Component Based
Visualization Architecture Submitted by
Henning Barthel, Michael Bender, Andreas Divivier, Achim Ebert,
and Hans Hagen (Germany)
Supporting Information
Dialogues by Database Driven Interactive 3D Information-Visualization
Gerald Jäschke, Martin Leissler, Matthias Hemmje (Germany)
Theme
I-6: Innovative Web Design and Applications – O. Signore
(Italy) and H. D. Flack (Switzerland)
The web is defined
by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, and should be perceived by the
users, as a universe of network-accessible information. The web,
at its full potential, can be seen first as a means of human-to-human
communication, and then as a space in which software agents can,
through access to an immense knowledge pool representing society,
science and its problems, become tools for us to work with. We
must assume that the goals of interoperability, and creating an
evolvable technology, are taken for granted and assumed throughout.
The principles of universality of access irrespective of hardware
or software platform, network infrastructure, language, culture,
geographical location, or physical or mental impairment are core
values in web design. The "semantic web" is the challenge of the
next decade.
The session will focus
on how innovative applications can fit in this framework. It will
foster an exchange of ideas on all aspects of all disciplines
that will contribute to make the "semantic web" a reality.
The goals of the session are to ring together some of the most
active and well known researchers and developers in web design
and applications to discuss the following:
- Surveying what is
currently being done in designing applications that make use
of new and innovative web technologies
- Identifying future
research and development issues and trends in web application
design and discussing how advances in research and technology
can help to design and implement innovative applications that
can lead the web to its full potential
- Forging research
collaborations.
Submitted
abstracts include:
Multimedia Presentation
of Scientific Data in the WWW.
Horst Bogel and Robert Spiske, Germany
XML Technologies for
the Representation and Management of Spatiotemporal Information
in Archaeology
F. Grandi and F. Niccolucci,Italy
An Integrated Web
Resource for Crystallography
Brian McMahon, UK
Interoperability Approach
in Designing a Geo-Data Server for Antarctic Data
L. Fortunati, O. Salvetti, A. Galligani, S. Biagioni and C. Carlesi,
Italy
XML in the Documentation
Field: Designing "semantic web" Applications
Giuseppe Fresta, Paola Carrara, Italy
Towards Semantic Web:
User Needs and Available Technologies
Oreste Signore, Italy
Theme
I-7: Data compression techniques and computer telecommunications:
satellite and weather databases – Dr. H. Kroehl (NOAA, US)
Satellites monitoring
the Earth and the Earth's environment are generating huge volumes
of data at an ever-increasing rate. At the same time scientists,
educators and the general public seem to have an insatiable appetite
for environmental data. High speed networks and new protocols
are helping but are still unable to keep up with demand.
This session will focus
on two alternative solutions to large numbers of data transfers
of very large data sets, i.e. data compression techniques and
computer telecommunications. Current techniques allow for large
data compression ratios without a significant loss of information,
especially for environmental satellite imagery. Alternatively,
automatic sharing of data between computer systems can transfer
demand from routes with higher traffic and limited bandwidth to
routes with less traffic and/or greater bandwidth like research
and engineering networks. Talks in this session will demonstrate
techniques to address the problems associated with increasing
demand for rapidly expanding databases over networks with limited
capacity.
The areas to be discussed
include:
- No loss data compression
techniques
- Losey compression
techniques
- Wavelet transform
compression techniques
- Meteorological satellite
imagery and products
- Earth Observing
Satellite (EOS) imagery and products
- Virtual data centers
- High speed research
and engineering networks
- Data management
for remote numerical modeling applications
Theme
I-8: New Methods in Management of Information Flows and
Information Industry – Dr. K. Froitzheim (Germany) and Acad.
Yury Arsky (Russia)
Information
is a valuable commercial good and the flow of information has
to be carefully managed in order to facilitate instant access
and efficient use, provide security and protection of privacy,
and assure adequate compensation for the owner. The Internet and
other advances in the communication technologies such as mobility
create infinte new posibilities to generate information and for
the ubiquitous access to it.
This session
will report advances and try to discuss new opportunities for
the application of emerging technologies and services.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Implementation of New
Methods in Management of Information Flows in CIS Countries by
STACCIS
J. Bonnin, France, A. Beriozko, A. Gvishiani, D. Nechitailenko,
T. Shulyakovskaya, Russia.
Smart Documents for
Web-Enabled Collaboration
Mikael JernLinkoping Sweden.
MultiMedia Information
Systems and Development and the Virtual Organizations Synthesis
Zbigniew, Kierzkowski, Poland
Wireless Communication
for Data Access in Developing Countries
A. Stander, University of Cape Town, S. Rossouw, School of Business
Informatics
Virtual Presence-An
Emerging Internet Service
K. Froitzhein, H. Wolf, Germany
Theme
I-9: The Emergence of Virtual Laboratories: Towards New
Policies and Strategies for Knowledge Handling – Dr. J. Rose
(UNESCO)
The
role of networking multimedia communication tools is becoming
a major, even an essential, part of distributed computing within
countries, disciplines and beyond geographical boundaries. Classification
and taxonomies of communication services must be considered
in a different light, as the concept of Virtual Laboratories
will lead to many diverse ways of linking to perform scientific
activities. The rapid internationalization of world science
and technology can facilitate the integration of numerous aspects
of our civilizations.
UNESCO
and CODATA are joining forces to bring together, in this session
on "Virtual Laboratories and their Emergence", world experts
to help create harmonious collaborations based on "data sharing"
at all levels of acquisition and modeling.
Submitted
abstracts include:
Virtual
Laboratory Strategies for Development
S.M. Radicella, C. Fonda and E. Canessa (International Centre
for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy)
Person
to Experiment Communication in Virtual Laboratories
Konrad Froitzheim (Technical University Freiberg, Germany)
Virtual
Laboratory and Virtual Library - Opportunities for and Challenges
to Africa
G. Olalere Ajayi (Director, Information Technology and Communication
Unit, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)
Presentations
on case studies
International
Virtual Laboratory on Fundamental and Applied Problems of Elasticity
Theory
Y. Murakami, M. Kovalenko, D. Nechitailenko, A. Gvishiani, V.
Strakhov, M. Diament, H. Kroehl (Japan, Russia, France, USA)
Creation
of Virtual Laboratory on Tropical Wood
J. Noah Ngamveng (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université
de Yaoundé I, Cameroon)
The
Progress of Virtual Laboratories in China
Yun-Shen Ma, Jian Miao, Jian-Gen Wu, Liang-Yao Chen, Wei-Heng
Zhong (all of Fudan University, Shanghai), Yan-Dong Zhang, Li-Qing
Shao (both of Ministry of Science and Techology, Beijing) and
Dong-Shen Chen (Ministry of Education, Beijing)
Virtual
laboratories - A Brazilian-French Experience
Henri Dou (CRRM, Université Aix Marseille III, France) and Gilda
Massari Coelho (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia, Brazil)
Round
Table on International Cooperation on Virtual Laboratories
Theme
I-10: Cooperative data activities, data sharing and virtual
telescopes in modern astronomy and astrophysics – Dr. G. Oertel
(US)
This
session will explore different dimensions of virtual astronomy
and how advances in informatics and telecommunications will
change how we look into the sky and understand what we see.
Talks
will include:
- Definition of
a virtual observatory, and goals and objectives for the
astronomy community
- International
perspectives on goals and opportunities for creating a virtual
observatory
- A 21st
century ground-based astronomical facility perspective
Based on new Decade Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics
2000-2010, US Academy of Sciences
- A space-based
astronomical facility perspective
Hubble has revolutionized astronomical science and stretched
data acquisition, transmission, use, and archiving at
the Space Telescope Science Institute and its counterpart,
the European Control Facility. The demands of Hubble's
planned successor, the 8-meter aperture Next Generation
Space Telescope, on data management will exceed those
from Hubble by several orders of magnitude. The extensive
use of the Hubble archive and the ability to also access
other astronomical archives at the Institute and at
the ECF constitutes first steps toward a virtual observatory.
Plans for further development of this international
capability will be described.
- A Chinese
astronomy program perspective
A virtual observatory will be for everybody who has
the technology and infrastructure to use it and contribute
to it. China has aggressive plans for an interdisciplinary
data center and will produce data at the forefront of
astronomy through space missions and through the planned
Schmidt survey telescope which will be the largest such
facility with the largest data acquisition rate on Earth.
The speaker will describe how China might interact with,
use, and contribute to an international virtual observatory.
- Realizing a
virtual observatory: perspective from a funding agency.
A virtual observatory will serve national and international
communities in science, education, and outreach. While it
can be and should be distributed at many diverse locations,
there will be a need for a common architecture and policies
to ensure that the virtual observatory is more than a collection
of individual archives but has its own "look and feel" for
researchers, students, media, and perhaps the public. The
speaker will address issues of leadership, organization,
and funding that arise in realizing the concept.
- Panel discussion:
International and interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges
in a virtual observatory
Submitted abstracts
include:
The Age of Megasurveys:
Towards a Virtual Observatory
Alex Szaley, The John Hopkins Unuversity, Baltimore, MD
A 21st Century
Ground-Based Astronomical Facility Perspective
Matthew Mountain, Director, International Gemini Project,
Hilo, Hawaii
Data Sharing from
the Hubble Deep Field
Steven V. Beckwith, Director, Hubble Space Telescope Science
Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Astronomical Virtual
Observatories: A European Perspective
Piero Benvenuti, ESA/Space Telescope European Coordinating
Facility, Garching bei, Munchen, Germany
Towards a Virtual
Observatory: A NASA Perspective
Joseph H. Bredekamp, NASA Headquarters, Washington, USA
Panel Discussion:
International and Interdisciplinary issues, opportunities
and challenges in building a Virtual Observatory
Session Reporter Ethan Schreier, Hubble Space Telescope Science
Institute, Baltimore, MD
Theme
I-11: Intranet and data tools for Small and Medium Enterprises
(SME) – Prof. Henry Dou (France)
During
the past three years, the development of the information network
(public and private), in combination with the increasing impact
of globalization, have induced a move towards the immaterial
and the virtual.In this framework, people speak of virtutal
companies, e-commerce, intelligent Intranets, etc.
The
impact of the new technologies, as well as the necessary pluri-cultural
approach to research, business and politics, requires enabling
companies and institutions to create a new form of global knowledge.
In this framework, the Intelligence Corporation plays a central
role, and all the methodologies and tools that can help to create
this supra-intelligence are of fundamental importance.
If large
companies possess enough human resources and tools to promote
this intellectual capital, the situation is very different for
SMEs, and the challenge here is important.
The
goal of this Session is to present the latest research and tools
in this field. To promote synergies between or within SMEs,
Intranet tools today have a key role in the development of company
intelligence. In the same way, analysis of large quantities
of information will help SMEs to have a better view of their
near future and the trends in their area of competence.
In this
Session, we want to give a large place to research work on methodologies,
tools, experiments and case studies that will show why and how
new information technologies help to promote knowledge in companies
or institutions. This Session will consist of
invited papers, short papers, posters or demonstrations. A Round
Table will promote a debate on this issue, encourage audience
participation and help reach conclusions.
Submitted
abstracts include:
Competitive
Technical Intelligence in SME's, Good Practices Versus Informational
Tools
Serge Quazotti, Cyril Dubois, Henri Dou, Pere Escorsa (CRPHT)
Corporate
Intellectual Capital : Do we really know to look and how to
measure it ?
Marie Paule Verlaeten, Ministry of Economy, Brussels
Virtual
Places: creating knowledge in the 21st Century
Jean-Marie Dou, University of Provence, France
Teaching
Competitive Intelligence in Brazil for SME's
Gilda Massari Coelho, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia, Brazil
Information
Analysis, Genome Program and " hidden Data "
Luc Quoniam, Violaine Pillet, Ambroise Ingold, Bernard Jacq,
LEPONT-CRRMUIII Marseille
Treatment
of Heterogeneous and Formal Data.
Towards a non metrical analysis of Technology Watch Folder
Valerie Leveillé, Hervé Rostaing, CRRM, Université, Aix-Marseille
III
Theme
I-12: Information Tools and Strategic Context – Prof.
C. Paoli and Pr. B. Dousset (France)
Knowledge
Management and Economic Intelligence have in common various
information tools. One needs to search, structure, archive,
elaborate and synthesize pertinent information for valid decision
making. In general the need is for elaborate information shaped
for various handling strategies. Different mechanisms are employed
to converge on a specific goal in a given environment. A convergence
mechanism or certain synchronous associations are required to
harmonize the overall system so as to create efficient associations
of supplied information and management software.
Today,
information technologies are essential tools for valorization
and evaluation audits in industry. They provide adequate logistics
to improve structural working units. They facilitate the development
of stronger relationships by controlling information flow between
the various actors in the industrial production chain.
In this
Session, the intention is to investigate different types of
relationships used in complex systems connecting databases and
decision making processes in large industries and in administrative
projects.
Submitted
abstracts include:
Data
and Complex Management Tools. Decision Making Processes in an
Heterogeneous Framework
Jean-Pierre Caliste, France
Commentary
of statistical and Semantic Analysis using Watch 4 U and Sampler
R. Eppstein (CS), F. Datchary,(Datchary) C. Paoli (Univ. Marne-la-Valee)
Methodologies
for Detecting and Creating Strategic Information in Multimedia
J. Vasquez and L. Leduc
Theme
I-13: Data and Patent Policy – Dr. B. Marx (France)
Industrial
data can vary widely, going from property rights and patents
to complex information analyses for extracting certain knowledge.
They can be private or more or less public, resulting from various
local, regional, national, European, international strategies,
for example. Access to technical data exists within a frame
work of networks for which norms and standardization exist on
various levels: data, software, informatics languages and, more
recently, that of dynamic graphic data. The nodes of these networks
are centered on patents, certain documentary files, and they
reflect problems of classification and indexing resulting from
a number of agreements on technical standardization shaped,
in turn, by various historical and geographical influences.
The information revolution of the WEB favors the coexistence
of direct networks from/to user with the classical structured
networks and, above all, shortens the working time of information
chains. In these conditions, the present situation is that of
inquiry on all levels, local and global. In this Session we
hope to bring out the problems and to evaluate the strategic
evolution of a near future, already knocking at the door.
Below
is a sampling of suggestions for some desirable research axes
at the present stage.
Policy
Object
- European patents
and the emergence of European Community patents
- Patenting requirements
in new fields (bioinformatics, genetic engineering, nanodevices)
- Software patenting
: safety, protection, limits
Marketing
- Fair access
to information (financial aspects) and to industrial and
patent data
- New user profiles:
Friendly access languages
System Management
- The meaning
of easy access to complex information multi-level retrieval
- Emerging friendly
languages for technical knowledge retrieval : transparency
of coding layers
- Graphics and
imaging tools for interface
- Patent retrieval
with free text search
A round table is
planned on the topic details are given below.
Round
Table on : THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION: Its impact on Patents
and Technical Data Management. This will involve the features
and the management of the future balance between private and
public contributions to forthcoming sources of information from
patents and technological sources. Various aspects to be considered
follow below:
- Nature and characteristics
of new technological information.
- Role of industrial
software for data management.
- Internet induced
changes in technical information: advantages and dangers,
database and data security.
- Navigation access
concepts : FAIR or FREE ACCESS.
- Role of data
quality in warehouses.
- Role of information
brokers.
- Communication
standards and classification agreements.
- Position of
large data/information on line severs: database quality
objectives.
- Role of present
large on line coordinating servers in the developing entropic
- Worldwide system
based on popular navigation tools.
- Control of information
flow between publishers (online) and servers
Theme
I-14: Access to Public Data – Dr. Jean Jacques-Royer
(France)
The
Information Society, transforming many traditional structures
and services, increases the speed and volume of data exchanges,
facilitates their integration and develops active user/data
interactions. It also popularizes and generalizes the need for
information, but imposes different social structures and trades.
The scope of these movements poses problems on both national
and European levels (see the 1999 Green Paper "Information
from the Public Sector: A Key Resource for Europe" [1]).
A recent
French report [2] distinguishes between the economic
and the citizen aspects in this area. It identifies "an
obligation for public bodies, hubs of the present documentation
system, to place data at the disposal of private networks",
an obligation limited by permission for data access, "the citizen’s
rights". Communication growth is anticipated by regulations
that generally ensure the perennial nature of current public
systems and their adaptation to the Information Society.
But
is this sufficient ? Relations between the public and private
sectors remain difficult to define, particularly in research
where information constitutes the basis of universal knowledge
(public data are often universal data). All this favors an evaluation,
discipline by discipline, of recommendations to ensure minimal
access by public bodies ("citizens" rights and perhaps "researchers"
rights). Private computerized editions can lead to a broadening
of private repertories for which the idea of access to "essential"
data has not yet been defined. A free flow of information is
important, but certain abusive "expropriations" must be curtailed.
The
nature of the data must be carefully defined as basic datum
is accompanied by layers of repertory files and/or metadata.
In this context, a complex datum often becomes an object of
co-ownership between several contributors. This must be considered
when exploiting it. Where should one situate the "essential
datum" accessible without financial or other constraints? At
what access level does a consultation "limited to the essential"
stop?
Submitted
abstracts include:
Access
to Public Data and Mechanisms for Data Sharing in South Africa
Heston E. Phillips. South African Data Archive, NRS
Survey
of the Information Resources in Science and Technology in India
on the World Wide Web.
Dr. J.R. Arora. Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Database
Property Rights pose a serious threat to the Integrity of Science-A
Developing Countries Perspective.
G. Thyagarajan, COSTED
Fundamental
Research Preparation of National Sciences and Technology in
China
Ye Yujiang and Shi Huizhong, China
Construction
and Development of Scientific Database of CAS
Xiao Yun, Wu Kai Chao, Li Wangping, Yan Bao Ping
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For
this Session, please refer to the following typology of the
data sectors :
I Data
on active life (meteorology, ecology, mobility, administration
texts, cartography, security, …);
II Industrial, economic and financial data
[3];
III Research and innovation data (crystallography, chemistry,
genetic engineering, pharmacology, earth sciences, botany, …).
References
- [1] Green Paper
on Public Sector Information on the Information Society
(European Commission, 1999, 33p, COM(1998) 585.
- [2] Working
Group on "technologies of Information and New Networks within
the State". Six workshops, one of which was "New Means to
help Distribution of Public Data", Report of the General
Commissariat of the Plan, Paris, La Documentation Française,
1999, 123p.
[3] Distribution of information and Access to I.N.P.I. Data,
B. Marx, Documentaliste, "Science of Information",
1999, Vol. 36, 1.
Round
Table Discussion I-A: Africa regional data issues in the
Internet era
Round
Table Discussion I-B: Data access and intellectual property
rights
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