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P-1 — Hydrozyl Impurities in Quartz Crystals and Their Radiation-Induced Dynamics
Harish Bahadur

P-2 — International Chart of the Nuclides - 2001
T.V. Golashvili

P-3 — Electrical Conduction Mechanism in Potassium Boro-Vanadate Iron Glass System
Harshvadan R. Panchal, Dinesh K. Kanchan

P-4 — Database of Korean Mushrooms
Duck-Hyun Cho, Won-Kyung Cho, Jae-Yon Chung, Hyung-Seon Park, Bu-Young Ahn, Kang-Ryul Shon

P-5 — Reference Database of Korean Insect Diversity
Soo-won Cho, Hyung-Seon Park

P-6 — Cooperative Double Blind Study of Pseudomonads and Related Organisms
Micah Krichevsky, Paul De Vos, Surang Dejsirilert, Deborah Henry, Jorge Lalucat, Edward Moore, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Jane Tang, Sue Whitehead, Hans Yu, Yuguang Zhou

P-7 — Factual Database of Native Flora Seeds in the Korean Peninsula
Hong-Gi Jang, Sang-Uk Chon, Byoung-Sik Pyo, Sun-Min Kim, Sook-Young Lee, Hyung-Seon Park

P-8 — Construction of Antibody Database
Dong-Jun Lee, Chan-Seob Shim, Hyung-Seon Park

P-9 — Database Construction for the Collective List of Descriptions of Bacterial Isolates from Korea
Oh Hyoung Lee, Hyung Dae Koh, Soon Young Park, Hyung-Seon Park, Kye Jun Lee

P-10 — Factual Database of Noctuid Moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Korea
K.T. Park, J.S. Lee, J.Y. Kim, K.J. Lee,

P-11 — The Date Conversion DB Between Luni-Solar and Solar Calendar in Korea
Young Sook Ahn, Bo Sik Han, Kyung Jin Sim, Du Jong Song, Bu Young Ahn,

P-12 — Algorithm "Skeleton, Segments, Trace" (SST) for digitizing the analog geophysical records
A. Burtsev, A.D.-Gvishiani, M.N.-Zhizhin

P-13 — The Mackenzie GEWEX Study Data Archive: An Enhanced Dataset for Climate modelling
Robert W. Crawford

P-14 — Background Radiation Level at Thinbhangle (Nepal)
B. R. Shah, H. Rahaman

P-16 — Multimedia Data Processing and Construction of Database for Ancient Astronomical Heritages of Korea
Yong-Sam Lee, Min-Soo Lee, Sang-Hyuk Kim, Yong-Bok Lee, Bu-Young Ahn

P-17 — Construction of Factual Database Based Virtual Science Museum
Bu-Young Ahn, Hyung-Seon Park, Ji-Young Kim, Kang-Ryul Shon

P-18 — Enabling Collaborative Science Communities Through Data Interoperability
Daniel Crichton, J. Steven Hughes, Gregory Downing, Sudhir Srivastava

P-19 — New Welding Information System on Internet
Mitsunae Fujita, Takayoshi Kasugai, Akira Okada, Junichi Kinugawa

P-20 — An Integrated Web Resource for CERN's Ecosystem Data
Hua Ouyang

P-21 — The Virtual Organization Environment Engineering
Zbigniew Kierzkowski

P-22 — Metadata Standard Research and Development for the Scientific Databases System
Li Jianhui

P-23 — Enabling Collaborative Science Communities Through Data Interoperability
Hua Ouyang

P-24 — Data Base of Research, Science and Technology (dbriptek) in Indonesia
Rukasih Dardjat

P-25 — Establishment and Role of the Database of Scientists and Engineers in CAS
Shuyu Zhao

P-26 — The use of the relative and absolute models to the calibration of Landsat TM data. Application to the semi-arid land of Laghouat (Algeria)
A.Bensaid, Z.Smahi, T. Iftene

P-27 — Provision of the Operating Access to the Legal Information at the Libraries of the Institutions of Higher Education in Uzbekistan
D. R. Yusupov

P-28 — Data Integration in a Data Acquisition System for Material Property Database
Xinyue Huang, Jun Shen, Yongbin Zheng

P-29 — The Computational Methodology of Multiple Data Analysis for Inorganic Origin Oil and Gas--A Case Study in Qiangtang Basin of Tibet
Mingyuan Huo, Song Chen

P-30 — Scientific Database and Its Application System of CAS
Xiao Yun

P-31 — Ensuring sustainability access to data—value based approach
Conrad Sebego

P-32 — ADRES: An online reporting system for veterinary hospitals
P.K. Sidhu, N.K. Dhand

P-33 — PAU_Epi~AID: A relational database for epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data management
N.K. Dhand

P-34 — New CODATA Journal
F. J. Smith

P-35 — A Model for Live Mission Data Systems Using the OAIS Reference Model
Douglas Hughes, Jason Hyon, Sanda Mandutianu, Kathya Zamora

P-36 — Units Markup Language - An XML Schema for Scientific Units
Robert A. Dragoset, Barry N. Taylor, Michael J. McLay

P-1. Hydrozyl Impurities in Quartz Crystals and Their Radiation-Induced Dynamics
Harish Bahadur, National Physical Laboratory, India

In the present day technology, crystalline quartz is used in a variety of electronic devices including crystal oscillator and filters for precision frequency control, clocks for microprocessors, temperature and mass sensors and accelerometers etc. Quartz is grown hydrothermally which results in a variety of hydroxyl defects. Trivalent aluminum is the most pervasive impurity in quartz crystals that substitutionally replaces Si 4+. Other substitutional impurities that a quartz crystal can have are Ge, Fe and Ti etc. The impurity-related point defects get modified when ionizing radiations pass through the bulk of a resonator. The radiation-induced modification of such defects alters of the interatomic forces. This changes the elastic constants and finally the resonance frequency of a crystal resonator. This paper presents our investigations on hydroxyl impurities in a variety of quartz crystals and their radiation-induced dynamics.

We present near infrared absorption measurements (in the region of 3100-3700 cm-1) on quartz crystals to characterize the aluminum- and alkali-related hydroxyl defects in a variety of natural and cultured quartz crystals. Quartz samples were irradiated with electron beam of 1.75 MeV and dose of 2 Mrad at 77 K before and after irradiation at 300 K. While the alkalis in quartz move under irradiation field only if the sample temperature is about or above 200 K, the protons move at all temperatures down to 10 K. Therefore, irradiation at 300 K allows movement of both, protons and alkali ions, thus breaking away the aluminum-alkali centers into a mixture of Al-OH-and Al-hole centers. We have measured the natural quartz crystals with nearly similar Al and widely varying H-levels. For a similar radiation dose at 300 K, contrary to expectation, a lesser number of Al-OH- centers are produced in crystal with higher H-level than the sample with low-H quartz. At the present stage of work, we expect this due to jamming in the kinetics of large number of protons in high-H crystals for steric reasons which prevents them to reach Al-sites after irradiation.

Further, the spectral measurements carried out on a variety of natural and cultured quartz crystals show that besides the conventional growth defect bands in natural as well as cultured material, the presence of a small band at 3595 cm-1 occurs due to the presence of Ti in quartz crystal lattice. Irradiation effects have been reported by irradiating the samples at 77 K before and after 300 K-irradiation .While Ge-doped cultured quartz exhibit the production of some new radiation induced defect bands, the results show that among the two substitutional impurities Ge and Ti in quartz other than the aluminum, the presence of Ti is not as deleterious as Ge. Results have been discussed in terms of fundamental considerations governing the radiation induced defect dynamics of point defects in crystalline quartz.

P-2. International Chart Of The Nuclides - 2001
T.V. Golashvili*, V.M. Kupriyanov, A.A. Lbov, A.P. Demidov, Head Scientific Data Center, Central Research Institute of Management, Economics and Information (Atominform), Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy, Moscow, Russia
V.P. Chechev, Radionuclide Data Center, Khlopin Radium Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Zhao Zhixiang, Zhuang Youxiang, Zhou Chunmei, Huang Xiaolong, China Nuclear Data Center, China Institute of Atomic Energy, China National Nuclear Corporation, Beijing, China
M.S. Antony, Centre de Recherches Nucleaires et Universite Louis Pasteour, Strasbourg, France
Akira Hasegawa, Junichi Katakura, Nuclear Data Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai, Japan

The new Chart of Nuclides has been developed as the updated International Chart of Nuclides-1998¹⁾. It contains brief information on characteristics of all isotopes of 118 chemical elements known by 2002. This Chart of Nuclides is a peculiar "wall guide" on nuclides and intended for being used by wide circle of experts of different level (students, graduate students, engineers, scientific researchers), who would like to have primary true information on stable and radioactive nuclides.

Unlike widespread nuclide charts^2,3,4) that also bring brief information on nuclides, the present Chart of Nuclides contains EVALUATED values of the main characteristics such as mass excess, nuclide percent abundance, cross sections of thermal neutron induced activation for stable and natural long-lived nuclides; mass excess, half-life, decay energy for radioactive nuclides. These values are supplied with the standard deviations. They have been obtained on the basis of the information from database of Head Scientific Data Centre (Atominform, Moscow) and the Radionuclide Data Centre (RDC) at the V.G.Khlopin Radium Institute (St.-Petersburg) including the evaluated data, presented in the ENSDF-2000 international file⁵⁾, Table of Isotopes⁶⁾ and Table of Radioactive Isotopes⁷⁾, as well as their own evaluated data obtained by RDC experts.

The uncertainties of the recommended values are parenthetical and provided with the number of units of the last significant digit of the value: for instance, 40.1(22) means 40.1± 2.2.

Nuclide mass excesses, Δ, are expressed in MeV with Δ(¹²C)=0 and corresponded to data of reference⁸⁾.

Half-life evaluated values (with uncertainties) are presented for radioactive nuclides. Nuclide percentage in natural mixture of isotopes for a given chemical element is mentioned for stable nuclides instead of half-life. Both values, i.e. half-life and abundance of isotopes in natural mixture, are presented for natural long-lived radioactive nuclides.

Basic decay types with percentage of branching, and evaluated values (with uncertainties) of decay energies (Q-values, in keV) obtained on the basis of data^5,8) are presented.

Basic types of radiation (particles and photons) and mean values of radiation energy per decay (keV/decay) obtained on the basis of data⁷⁾ and RDC evaluations are presented. Mean radiation energy per decay <R> is a quantitative characteristic indicating the contribution of the given radiation type to the energy (Q) released in the decay.

Radiation capture cross sections (in barns) induced by thermal neutrons (activation cross section) are presented for the stable and natural long lived nuclides in accordance with reference¹⁰⁾. Also the energies of the most intensive gamma-rays (in keV) are presented.

Nuclides in the chart are arranged as Z-N diagram, where Z is the number of protons in a nucleus, N is the number of neutrons. Z grows on along the vertical from bottom to top; N grows on along the horizontal from left to right. The following information for each radioactive nuclide is contained in the information boxes arranged along the lines:

1. Nuclide symbol with mass number;
2. Mass excess;
3. Spin of ground state of nucleus;
4. Half-life;
5. Decay modes;
6. Decay energy;
7. Average radiation energies;
8. Energies of the most intensive radiation components;
9. Thermal neutron activation cross section.

All the values in the first five lines are arranged in such a way that information on the same characteristic for different nuclides is put along the same horizontal line.

Below the examples of the information box are given for ⁵⁷Co, ¹⁵⁵Eu and ²⁴¹Am.

As for the stable nuclides, the abundance of nuclide in natural mixture of isotopes (percentage) is indicated in the forth line and the thermal neutron activation cross section is indicated in the last line. Below the examples of the stable and natural unstable nuclide information boxes are given for ⁵⁹Co and ⁴⁰K.

As to history, the necessity to develop the international charts of nuclides was discussed in 1994 at International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Gatlinburg, the USA. IAEA international working group had confirmed that there is a necessity to develop the international charts of nuclides. Opinion of more than 200 respondents from national and international organizations as a result of 1994 - 1996 attitude survey was the reason for developing the international charts of nuclides.

References
1) Zhao Zhixiang, Zhuang Youxiag, Zhou Chunmei, Huang Xiaolong (China), M.S.Antony (France); Akira Hasegawa, Junichi Katakura, (Japan); V.P.Chechev, T.V.Golashvili, A.A.Lbov (Russia). International Chart of Nuclides-1998. Scientific Head of the Project: T.V.Golashvili. Atominform, Moscow, 1998.
2) Chart of the Nuclides, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Fifteenth Edition, U.S. Department of Energy, 1996.
3) Chart of the Nuclides, Nuclear Data Center of JAERI, 2000.
4) M.S Antony, Chart of the Nuclides - Strasbourg 1992: Centre de Recherches Nucleaires et Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 1993.
5) Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File-2000 and NUDAT, National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.
6) R.B.Firestone. (Ed.) C.M. Baglin, (CD-Rom Ed.) S.Y. Frank Chu, Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition, 1998 Update, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1998).
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8) G. Audi, A.H. Wapstra, Nucl.Phys. A595 (1995) 409.
9) T.V. Golashvili, V.P. Chechev, A.A. Lbov, Nuclide Guide, Moscow, 1995, Atomniform. P. Raghavan, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 42 (1989) 189.
10) T.S. Bulanova, A.V. Ignatyuk, A.B. Pashchenko, V.I. Plyaskin. Radiation capture of neutrons. Handbook. M.: Ehnergoatomizdat, Moscow, 1986.

P-3. Electrical Conduction Mechanism in Potassium Boro-Vanadate Iron Glass System
Harshvadan R. Panchal and Dinesh K. Kanchan, The M. S. University of Baroda, India

The Electrical Conduction mechanism of xK2O: (100-x-y)[(1+n)V2O5: B2O3]: yFe2O3 where x=0,5, 10 . . 20, y= 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5 and 15 and n = 0.2 to1 in step of 0.2 glasses was explained on the basis of Mott's theory. The dc conductivity measurements of present glass system were carried out in the temperature range of 315-433 K for all different glass compositions. The decrease of the conductivity and increase in activation energy has been observed with the increase of Fe2O3 concentration. Estimated small polaron radius was to be smaller than the atomic site spacing (V-V spacing) and greater than the radius of iron on which the electron is localized. Present glass system exhibit a semiconducting adiabatic hopping due to a small polaron.

P-4. Database of Korean Mushrooms
Duck-Hyun Cho, Won-Kyung Cho and Jae-Yon Chung
Division of Life and Technology, Woosuk University, Korea

Hyung-Seon Park, Bu-Young Ahn and Kang-Ryul Shon
Bio-Resources Informatics Department, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea

Korea has a good environment for development of mushrooms. In summer, there are a lot of rain and high temperatures. Also, it makes possible to grow heavy forests consisting of needle and broad-leaved forests. About 2000 species of mushroom have been studied from basdiomyctes to ascomycetes. Among them, 1,500 species are constructed with database. The mushrooms (higher fungi) are an important part in ecosystem as a decomposer taking responsible for recycling materials. From ancient times, mushrooms have been broadly used in food sources, pharmacy and forests resources. However, many living things have been endangered by environmental pollution and ecological destruction. The higher fungi also are not an exception. This database contains items of mushroom (higher fungi) from Korea according to the classification: species, genus, family, order, class and division; to the application: pharmaceutical purpose, food sources, culture, toxic, anti-cancer; to the ecological resources: symbiosis, rotten tree; to the geographical distribution and to the illustrated literature. Information retrieval system is also available using KRISTAL? for query searches on the Web in URL http://ruby.kisti.re.kr/~mushroom

P-5. Reference Database of Korean Insect Diversity
Soo-won Cho, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Hyung-Seon Park, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea

Unlike most of sciences, the field of taxonomy often requires information on species described for the first time. This means the older the paper is, the more important its significance on species description is while more difficult and more expensive it is to get. The Internet offers many useful reference databases in many fields of sciences, but it is neither easy to find a good reference database on systematic nor enough to find specific names listed in the paper by searching abstracts. We are currently building a new database on Korean land arthropods for the following reasons and advantages. First, it is all written in English for enhancing international usage. Second, it can be searched either by reference or by taxonomy, and each paper lists species names listed, with further useful information such as type information on new species, illustrated species images in the paper, and even GenBank data information. Third, we built it for the Internet search by using php and mySQL. Although the project needs a few more years of work in depth and need regular updates, we believe its utility for insect systematists is very high, especially for a preliminary study for a new taxonomic work.

P-6. Cooperative Double Blind Study of Pseudomonads and Related Organisms
Micah Krichevsky (Presenter), Bionomics International, USA
Paul De Vos, University of Gent, Belgium
Surang Dejsirilert, National Institute of Health, Thailand
Deborah Henry, University of British Columbia, Research Centre, Canada
Jorge Lalucat, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Edward Moore, The Macaulay Research Institute, Scotland, U.K.
Masoumeh Sikaroodi, George Mason University, Prince William Campus, USA
Jane Tang, American Type Culture Collection, USA
Sue Whitehead, Children's & Women's Hospital of BC, Canada
Hans Yu, Health Canada, Biotechnology Section, Canada
Yuguang Zhou, CAS, China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, Institute of Microbiolgy, China

"The identification of an organism and data to substantiate its identity is one of the critical building blocks that form the basis for risk-based assessment of biotechnology substances Commercial claims to the contrary, microorganism identification is far from trivial. Proper use of identification techniques may require rigorous analysis and in some circumstances may still be problematic due to difficulties and limitations of the science, and the nature of microorganisms themselves." Operational Plan for OECD Guidance Document: The use of taxonomy in the risk assessment of micro-organisms (Segal and Yu, 2001).

Sponsored by Health Canada, we initiated an international double blind study of isolates of two bacterial genera important in biotechnology, Pseudomonas and Burkholderia. One goal is databases to support regulatory deliberations. The databases will associate genera, species, pathovars, serovars, difficult to identify isolates, etc. The primary observations describing the groups and relationships comprise the base data. Analyses yield information on: 1) relationships among known species and hard to identify isolates (of both medical and ecological interest), 2) consistency of characteristics overall and within groups, and 3) a median set of characteristics for further analyses.

The study is not a taxonomic study, per se. Rather, it is disclosure of the consistency (or lack thereof) of the ability to identify these bacteria by laboratories with differing missions and expertise. All participating laboratories have extensive experience with their methodologies and the organisms in question. The participating laboratories vary widely in mission and location.
The central coordinating laboratory (CCC) distributes the cultures to the seven laboratories labelled with unique random numbers. The results are collected and analyzed by the Principal Investigator (PI). The CCC and the PI are independent of the data generation. The data are normalized using a standardized controlled vocabulary and imported into a single object-oriented data management system.

The main aims of the study are to:
1. Ascertain ability to identify to "species" or below
2. Find features robust to error and differing methodologies
3. Delineate useful methods of identification protocols

Not among the aims are:
1. Compare (evaluate) laboratories
2. Standardize test procedures

P-7. Factual Database of Native Flora Seeds in the Korean Peninsula
Hong-Gi Jang, Sang-Uk Chon, Byoung-Sik Pyo & Sun-Min Kim
Biotechnology Industrialization Center, Dongshin University, Korea
Sook-Young Lee, The Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, Dongshin University, Korea
Hyung-Seon Park, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea

Each combination of climate, soil and topography has its own characteristic type of plants and each area has its own unique plant species. Korea has a humid, temperate, East Asian monsoonal climate with rainfall heavier in summer than winter, and is geo-morphologically characterized by abundant hills and mountains, which occupy 70 % of its territory. Facing with knowledge-based and technology-oriented society, construction of infrastructure for valuable genetic resources from plant seeds would be the key of biotechnology in the 21st century. Seeds from 600 common plants including weeds, crop plants, and herbs and resources plants were collected in the southwestern part of the Korean Peninsula. Seeds collected were carefully stored in refrigerator until use, investigated morphologically, and photographed. The seeds in database were described with color photographs, their taxonomical position, and morphological characteristics. Korean-English bilingual description of the species included Korean name, family, scientific name, English and Japanese common names, habitat, biotechnological importance, distribution, propagation and characters in eco-physiology and keys of correct identification of each plant part such as leaves, stems, roots, fruits and seeds. In describing plant species, difficulties also arise from the variation that occurs within species, depending on where the plant grows under natural or agricultural conditions. Database was converted from MySQL and constructed using a PHP (http://ruby.kisti.re.kr/~seeds).

Key words: Factual database, native flora seeds, plant genetic resources

P-8. Construction of Antibody Database
Dong-Jun Lee & Chan-Seob Shim, ELPIS-BIOTECH, PaiChai University, Korea
Hyung-Seon Park, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), Korea

A number of genome maps has already been completed, and a working draft of entire human genome project was announced years ago. The proteomics is on going study and priority goes to the functional genomic and analysis. Antibody is the one of key factors in immune system, and the importance has given to the researcher's activities on functional analysis of protein. More than 700,000 antibodies are available for the research up to now and more antibodies will be produced in proportion to the rapid growth of biology. Antibodies play an important role in a variety of research areas including biotechnology, medicine and diagnostics. Antibody database has built and the homepage is available at http://ruby.kisti.re.kr/~antibody/english/index.html. This site contained about 3,000 human oncogenes out of 6,000. Totally up to 430,000 antibodies that human have will be accumulated. At the same time, the antibody data including mouse, rabbit and sheep will be stored, respectively. Besides, the basis of epitope sequence analysis using by bioinformatics will be constructed. The main purpose for the construction of database is to provide possible information for new medicine drug design and immuno-chip development for new protein screening and so on forth. This antibody database will have a great effect on deciding future course of protein research.

P-9: Database Construction for the Collective List of Descriptions of Bacterial Isolates from Korea
Oh Hyoung Lee, Department of Biology, Mokpo National University, Korea
Hyung Dae Koh, Department of Multimedia Engineering, Mokpo National University, Korea
Soon Young Park, Department of Electronics Engineering, Mokpo National University, Korea
Hyung-Seon Park, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea
Kye Jun Lee, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea

Bacteria are commonly used as tools or materials for productions of industrial substances such as antibiotics, specific enzymes or hormones, and hence comprising the base of high-valued biotechnology. For these reasons, bacteria have been the main targets for worldwide biodiversity competitions to pre-occupy them, and the efforts to find out new bacterial strains are still made all over the world. But the chance to isolate and identify a new bacterium is getting more difficult to obtain nowadays, because not only the process is complicated but also there is huge information to know about the existing bacteria to compare with the coming new one. For the challenging treasure hunter the need for easy way to grasp and figure out all these information is, therefore, beyond description. This is the reason why we are undertaking to construct database for the collective list of bacteria so far isolated from Korea. Here we constructed a computer-aided program to make a formal, comprehensive description about a given strain. It includes the name of strain, the information about the isolation process such as the time, source, purpose, and methods, the general descriptions about morphological, physiological, cultural, biochemical, and molecular biological characteristics of the target microbe, its specific role or function in nature, and the literature site that describes about these.

So far, 348 bacterial strains have been described in the database, and they are being displayed through the Internet with the URL, http://ruby.kisti.re.kr/~microb

P-10. Factual Database of Noctuid Moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Korea
K.T. Park, J.S. Lee & J.Y.Kim, Center for Insect Systematics, Kangwon Nat. Univ. Chuncheon, Korea
K.J. Lee, KISTI, Daejeon, Korea

The insect fauna of the Korean peninsula has not been extensively explored, due to lacks of specialists, representing less than 15,000 species. The first attempt for the factual database of insects in Korea was initiated by KISTI, for some well known groups of Lepidoptera from 2000, including butterflies, noctuid moths, and leaf-rollers. The structure of the database was established with 14 fields, representing general specific informations, including images of adult, taxonomic status, specific bibliography, biological information including collecting data and hosts, worldwide distributional, and etc.

From this year, the project will be focused on the noctuids of Korea (about 1,000 known species), with more detailed informations which can be used more effectively to researchers and general users. All the previously known localities will be transferred into GIS system, and some new informations on localities in North Korea will be added. Also illustrations of the genital figures of all available species will be given for the key of the specific identifications. These informations will be also very helpful guidance for the taxonomic and zoogeographical study, not only for Korean but also for foreign researchers.

P-11. The Date Conversion DB Between Luni-Solar and Solar Calendar in Korea
Young Sook Ahn, Bo Sik Han, Kyung Jin Sim & Du Jong Song, Korea Astronomy Observatory, Korea

Bu Young Ahn, KISTI: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea
We arrange Korean ancient calendar with Solar calendar day from Koryeo dynasty to Choseon Dynasty(A.D. 918-1910). In this period, we have two representable history books and several books, and most of information for date are found from them, Koryeo-sa(1) and Choseon Wangjosillok(2), etc. In those books many astronomical data and calendar information data are contained. Most of the Luni-solar dates can be converted to the Gregorian dates straightforwardly. But uncertain data are identified and converted with solar eclipses, historical events and lunar phase - calculation etc.

We find that arranged chronological tables during Koryeo and Choseon Dynasty are somewhat different from those of China and Japan. In addition, we calculate the Solar calendar and Luni-solar calendar during 1900-2050 using DE200 package.

Now we construct the database system with above data, during A.D. 918 - 2050 and many people will get information of the calendar date which they want using our DB system based on Internet.

(1) Koryeo-sa : The annals of Koryeo dynasty(A.D. 918- 1392) in KOREA.
(2) Choseon Wangjosillok: The annals of the Choseon dynasty(A.D. 1392-1910) in KOREA.

P-12. Algorithm "Skeleton, Segments, Trace" (SST) for digitizing the analog geophysical records
A. Burtsev, Center of Geophysical Data Studies and Telematics Applications IPE RAS, Russia
A.D.-Gvishiani, Director of the Center of Geophysical Data Studies and Telematics Applications IPE RAS, Russia
M.N.-Zhizhin, Center of Geophysical Data Studies and Telematics Applications IPE RAS, Russia

There are a lot of essential seismic records had been fixed on analog medium but they cannot be used in automatic analysis procedures, because ones require time series. To solve the problem we have developed mathematical algorithm SST and applied it to create graphic application to transfer analog records to the digital time series. The algorithm combines five stages: image quantization, skeletonizing, segmentation, building trace, and the last one, interpolation retrieved trajectory to correspond it with physical measurement. First stage covered all preliminary image processing to make it ready for skeletonizing. To build image skeleton and retrieve linear structure methods of mathematical morphology or distance transform are used. Then nodes of the skeleton are removed to have a set of primitives. To build trace we select and join linear structure covered the trace of the analog recorder pen (dynamic programming is used to find required primitives and set their order).

P-13. The Mackenzie GEWEX Study Data Archive: An Enhanced Dataset for Climate modelling
Robert W. Crawford, Meteorological Service of Canada, Canada

The Mackenzie GEWEX Study (MAGS) is aimed at improving our understanding and prediction of the role of water and energy cycles in the climatic system in the Mackenzie River basin. The goals of the MAGS Data Management system are to establish, maintain, describe, and promote accessibility and distribution of the data sets necessary to meet the MAGS objectives in the data sparse Mackenzie River basin. These goals are being met by MAGS in a number of ways: through the availability of data and information through the World-Wide Web; through the production of specialized data products; and through the development of policies to govern data exchange and participant interactions.

The MAGS web site is the primary method of providing information on the activities and data collected in the project for its many participants in universities and government offices across Canada as well as for the outside world. Visitors to the site have access to over 300 pages of information describing the objectives, background, status, and clients for the project. In addition, nearly 1 Gb of data collected in the study area is available through the site.

Additional data is available to MAGS participants through the "Participant's Only" section. Selected data sets are available there in near real time. These include satellite imagery and enhanced observations from the MAGS surface sites and buoys. The GOES imagery is received every 12 hours and the AVHRR data is received within 30 minutes of capture. The enhanced data sets from the surface sites are transmitted daily and contain enhanced temporal resolution data (for example, 15 minute pressure measurements) and non-standard measurements (such as soil temperatures).

Special CD-ROM archives of the datasets collected during a specific case studies and about scientifically interesting processes within the basin are also being produced by MAGS. These archives will provide a lasting resource for future climate change studies.
This paper will describe the contents, structure and utility of the MAGS Data Archive in conducting multi-disciplinary climate research.

P-14. Background Radiation Level at Tinbhangle (Nepal)
B. R. Shah, Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal
H.Rahaman, Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal

A radiometric survey was carried out to measure the background radiation level in the Eastern and Central part of Nepal in order to prepare radiation map of Nepal.The paper presents survey data taken with two equipments LB 1200 and GAD-1. The dose rates in air at the most places vary in the region of 13-20uR/h while they were found from 50uR/h to 1mR/h at Tinbhangle location. Moreover, the differential counts recorded for Uranium, Thorium, Potassium and Total Count were found 90-145, 0-10,80-130 and 7000-9000 cps. respectively. This preliminary radiometric survey clearly reveals that the annual exposure at the bed rock of Tinbhangle location is around 800 mR, which is fairly a high value in comparison to other places stated elsewhere. In addition to high doserates , a higher count of uranium among other radionuclides provide the greater possibility of uraniferous rock.

P-16. Multimedia Data Processing and Construction of Database for Ancient Astronomical Heritages of Korea
Yong-Sam LEE and Min-Soo Lee, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Sang-Hyuk Kim, Institute of Classical Korean Science, Korea
Yong-Bok Lee, Seoul National University of Education, Korea
Bu-Young Ahn, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea

We have systematically constructed web site on the heritages and cultural traditions in history of Korean astronomy. The site compose of six chapters on ancient astronomy of Korea which are history, philosophy and thought, instruments, calendar, publications, and astronomers. Most of materials contains a lot of pictures, illustrations, and astronomical records in ancient Korea as a data base. Especially users can understand the function and structure of the astronomical instruments using 3-D animation. It would be learned ancient astronomy for users using multimedia database system. The purpose of site is to introduce the history of astronomy to common user and to offer specific materials for research to expert. And also we present a proto-type of Cyber Virtual Museum which will be complete in 2002.

P-17. Construction of Factual Database Based Virtual Science Museum
Bu-Young Ahn, Hyung-Seon Park, Ji-Young Kim & Kang-Ryul Shon
Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea

KISTI provides the factual information, mostly indigenous data to Korea, through the web since 1994. There are over 25 databases such as biodiversity related data, inherent- domestic mine data, and specialized data includes chemical product/safety and thermo-physical property of Korean Standard material. Those are all classified into three categories to life science, earth science and industrial. Virtual science museum has constructed based upon those databases using VR Panorama technology, and opened to public including professionals who is provided the genuine data. The method applied was firstly, Real and 3D rendering image based VR Panorama; Secondly, VR Object Format; lastly, the Interactive and Immersive Virtual Reality to experience the virtual space. The virtual science museum consists of 5 pavilions in the following 16 themes; Biodiversity pavilion (freshwater fish, coastal fish, mushrooms, insects, domestic plant, indigenous plant, seeds, birds), Fossil pavilion (Korean fossil, fossil animation, period classification), Shellfish pavilion (Korean, World, Rare), Astronomy pavilion (ancient, virtual solar system) and Agriculture pavilion.

P-18. Enabling Collaborative Science Communities Through Data Interoperability
Daniel Crichton and J. Steven Hughes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA
Gregory Downing and Sudhir Srivastava, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA

Advances in computing technologies is providing new opportunities for science research through data sharing. Increasing volumes of data captured in independent data repositories is proving useful to unlock and share within these communities. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been working with both the space science community and the biomedical research community to deploy a data management infrastructure that enables interoperability across geographically disparate data systems located at key research institutions within the United States. In September 2000, JPL and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) signed an interagency agreement to explore infusion of space science data systems architectures into a biomedical research infrastructure. One of the principal findings was the similarity in the approach to building a collaborative data management infrastructure for both communities. A key to building this infrastructure has been the development of an architectural framework named the Object Oriented Data Technology framework (OODT). In particular, the OODT architecture decouples the data architecture from the technology architecture and has been adopted as the underlying architecture to support key scientific networks within both disciplines. OODT's technology architecture is based on XML and messaging services, providing a secure infrastructure for exchanging data across the Internet. Each community has developed a comprehensive data dictionary that has allowed the technology infrastructure of OODT to be driven by the specific semantic implementation. The data dictionary efforts have provided a common language for sharing scientific data sets, and mapping efforts have been conducted at participating institutions to link geographically distributed databases at these institutions together. In addition, both communities have successfully established cross-disciplinary teams consisting of technical, scientific and administrative personnel that have aided in building a solution that is useful to the community. This paper will discuss the technical approaches to building a data sharing architecture along with the similarities between the two scientific communities including a discussion on the technical, policy, and cultural decisions that were made to enable successful deployment and advocacy by the scientific research communities. Finally, it will discuss how the data sharing architecture described supports the collaborative science goals of two key science networks: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Planetary Data System and the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Early Detection Research Network.

P-19. New Welding Information System on Internet
Mitsunae FUJITA, Takayoshi KASUGAI Akira OKADA and Junichi KINUGAWA
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan

In recent years, a rapid advance has been made in the branch of information processing technology using networks and computers. It enables anyone to transmit valuable information through the Internet, and thus, to play an active role in each world. In the technical field of welding, any information of its theories and that of our experiences in the past, when they are organized systematically in a certain database system, and also, when such a system is widely opened to public on the Internet for utilization by many people, can undoubtedly promote successive transfers and development of welding technology.

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has been constructing a new system for predicting microstructures and mechanical properties of welded joins. It combines a database system of continuous cooling transformation diagrams for welding (CCT diagrams) and an expert system for computing weld thermal histories. In addition, this system employs a technique which has been invented in developing another distributed database system named "Data-Free-Way" (http://dfw.nims.go.jp/ or http://inaba.nims.go.jp/) for advanced nuclear materials and those obtained through some programs of welding research at NIMS in the past.

This paper describes the present state of our new system computing weld thermal histories for predicting properties of welded joints using CCT diagrams database, which is now available through the Internet. Some problems with the database in such a system are also referred to.

P-20. An Integrated Web Resource for CERN's Ecosystem Data
Hua Ouyang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China

In order to meet the challenges of understanding and solving the issues on resources and environments at regional or other larger scales, Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) was established in 1988. CERN consists of 29 stations on agriculture, forest, grassland, lake and bay ecosystems, 5 sub-centers on water, soil, atmosphere, biological and aquatic ecosystems and one synthesis center at present. Under the strong supports of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with the efforts of over 700 scientists, technicians and managers, CERN has made significant progresses since then. One of these progress is that an integrated, multi-format, high-quality information system has been implemented on the basis of data standardization, database demands analyzing and database design, also an easily accessed WWW-based system has been developed and put into action in the whole network.

The design process of this application system takes following things into account: (1) It should be developed basing on WWW, so each user on Internet can access CERN's data. (2) The data sources should be rich enough to reflect the whole aspects of CERN's stations (3) Different techniques and solutions will be applied for different data sources and different user communities. The data sources of this information system include research and long-term ecological observation data up to now, as well as multimedia data about stations' nature, landscape, society, and economies, and stations' maps of soil, land use, vegetation and so on, 3D visualization data of stations' landscape. Classified by format, the data involves attribute data, spatial data, text data, image data, sound data, which is individually managed by various kind of software systems, such as Oracle, Arc/info, Visual Foxpro and file systems.

The application system's functions are: (1) data catalog query by keywords or by meta-data. (2) real data browsing through filter conditions. (3) drawing stations' maps and querying attribute data through spatial location. (4) 3D stations' terrain formation and visualization. (5) multimedia realization, including sound play, image loading and viewing, graphic user interface based querying.

Then, how are so many kinds of data being managed and brought into WWW? This paper will give the details involving how to use Oracle products to manage data and develop Web querying pages, how to manage ARC/INFO maps by Oracle DBMS, how to develop JAVA Applet to realize Web GIS functions and multimedia functions.

Nowadays, more and more data are added to this database annually, this system has been accessed by many ecology-related scientific researchers and provided abundant data for scientific researches.

P-21. The Virtual Organization Environment Engineering
Zbigniew Kierzkowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Basic concepts. Elements of virtual organization creation treated as information society technologies - IST determine: A - informational globalization aspects, i.e. methods and techniques of common creation and data resources using in the form of computer files and their network aggregation, B - turbulent surroundings of globalize processes, i.e. rising number
of mutual connections and interactions, C - organizational globalization aspects, i.e. features of properties of appearing virtual organization forming by the entity image of information society organization, D - subjective human participation, in functioning organization determined by factors of processes originated or dependent from human, i.e. dependent from intellectual resources, product of clear symbolic reflection - the most human from human activities forms, the most private from private property forms.

Virtual organization information environment development. Through the virtual organization we understand the set of distributed subjects, represented in the virtual environment and
co-operating with oneself through global information environment for achieving common profits. In the information environment of the virtual organization factors of human participation and future of the organization property are represented by:

co-operation and structural properties and organization functions,
co-operative activities, functional properties and organization tasks,
group work co-ordination and real processes of dynamically activities organization and
information flow management for creation of changing virtual organization configurations.

We use existing information systems i.e. homogeneous, autonomous and isolated environments as well as federations of environments i.e. various environments behavior its autonomy but participating in the realization of determined functions of co-operating subjects. The information environment creates multi-layer architecture, communication of consolidated distributed applications representing real processes (inter-organization, mutual co-dependences etc) of virtual organization participants.

Virtual organization environment modeling. Creating virtual systems depend on globalization of activities organization (X, Y), i.e. on internal and external traditional enterprises organizations changes. Internal changes - X depend on competence growth of virtual organization subjects (organizations of separate enterprises and human activities). External changes - Y depend on integration of separate subjects. One can modeling mutual co-dependence of independent variables X, Y characterizing competences many individual enterprises and their compliance in integration within virtual organizations, conditioning with accessibility to information technologies (Z) - IT. Modeling of information globalization factors and organization globalization factors in spaces of parameter vectors: X, Y, Z allow to diagnose nature of creating virtual organizations as phases of structural transformations of traditional enterprises. Structures of new organizations through factors of the organizational globalization (X, Y) and the information globalization (Z) take features of flexibility and universality. Flexibility is ability to the continuous re-organization. Universality depends on that, the organization models can be used in different subjective domains so in different real socio-technical and economic systems.

Virtual work organization. In virtual organizations the subject and human work forms are changing. The work in the virtual organization distinguishes big degree of co-management.
It is organized around processes. In the virtual environment the process initiates human work activities. One take into consideration the mutual dependence as well as subjective human participation as inter-organizational connections. In bigger degree we take into consideration futures of human behaviors as well as culture of mutual dependences. It is visible new base of functioning (virtual) organization and human work (of virtual work organization), determined as TEAM - Together Everybody Achievement More. Functioning and the work forms in the virtual organization characterize (Z): first - immersion, i.e. degree of surroundings perception intensity as reality, second - navigation, i.e. degree of use know-how of IT tools.

Pattern solutions creation. Considerations refer to data organizations in chosen domains such as access to knowledge, data for science, technology, economic, organization of integrating institutions and enterprises, promotion of development and culture etc. In the virtual organization environment processes of executing particular functions within the organization are represented. The full solution depends on using models of dynamic documents and mechanisms of data management. Dynamic documents and data management mechanisms are models of virtual organization processes. In the virtual organization engineering we use access systems and organized more and more frequently as data and application centers. Run-time communication aspects of creating resources as well as operating data management as main elements of virtual systems engineering are exhibited. Within centers there are realized management mechanisms. Data centers development and synthesis of run-time communication services of data management decides of structural changes of traditional enterprises into virtual organizations. Trends of using solutions concerning communication and interactivity in the access to resources (interactive communication) are appeared. All of it concerns utility features of data centers and the new data organization in the global information environment. They are contribution for designing useable models transforming structurally traditional enterprises in virtual organization structures.

P-22. Metadata Standard Research and Development for the Scientific Databases System
Li Jianhui, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

The project of the Scientific Databases(SDB) has been undertaken by the Chinese Academy of Sciences more than 20 years. By now we have built a large amount of scientific databases, which are distributed, heterogeneous and cover many subjects, including chemistry, physics, geosciences, bioscience and so on. In order to share data among them and manage them effectively, and even to provide information service and knowledge discovery in the near future, we started a big project to research and set up the Scientific databases' metadata standard and built a metadata service system.

The Scientific database's metadata standard includes two pars: a metadata framework and a metadata standard set. The Framework defines the basic semantic and syntax rules which suits for all metadata standards of SDB, which can be seen as the metadata about metadata. The metadata standard set is a multi-level architecture, from SDB standard to subject standard to sub-subject standard, just like an Object-Oriented model.

This paper describes the metadata framework and the structure of the metadata standard set in detail.

P-23. Enabling Collaborative Science Communities Through Data Interoperability
Hua Ouyang, Data Management of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network, CAS, China

Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) has been established to meet the needs of the researches in ecology, environment and resources. It consists of 29 field stations, 5 sub-centers, and 1 synthesis center. One main objective of CERN is to provide soil data, biological data, hydrological data and climate data, which are recorded and collected by field stations, sub-centers and the synthesis center, to the researchers working in CERN and public. Data management is very important for CERN. It relates to how field stations, sub-centers and the synthesis center divide the work and work together to ensure that the high-quality data could be obtained and supplied to the users.

This paper introduces the data management of CERN. The content is listed as follows.

Data type and data flow - How to divide the data type and how the data are organized.
Data submission - When and how field stations and sub-centers submit the data.
Data quality control - Who is responsible for quality control and how to do it.
Data sharing - What the data sharing policy of CERN is mainly about, including data classification, user classification, data limitation and data access, etc.

Also, the future of data management of CERN will be discussed in this paper.

P-24. Data Base of Research, Science and Technology (dbriptek) in Indonesia
Rukasih Dardjat, Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), Indonesia

In 2001, the program of CODATA - ICSU has organized the national database for research, science and technology (DBRIPTEK) in Indonesia.

The Objective of DBRIPTEK will be the facilities of database to get selected information to support policy makers or decision makers, where for analyzing in and the assessment of research project on science and technology policy.

Database was established by cooperation Ministry of state for research science and technology and Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI).

DataBase of research, science and technology (DBRIPTEK) is established for an integrated files from:

Human resources - researchers file
Institutions/University files
Project of research on science and technology file
Publications (Book, journal, article)
Patent

Information storage and retrieval system for each file was created for user friendly and it was designed for input, process and output to make statistic of research on science and technology. It can be operated by using microcomputer, Delphi 5.0 software, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and window NT and Windows 98.

It will be useful for exchange information with in CODATA - ICSU member or other user by online in network system through internet.

P-25. Establishment and Role of the Database of Scientists and Engineers in CAS
Shuyu Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

The Database of Scientists and Engineers in CAS (DSECAS) was established by the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). The using of DSECAS had made active roles in science and technology management and policy decision in China. It had also made a good role in international exchange in science and technology.

It was about 16700 scientists were selected to DSECAS. They were professors, doctor teachers, and famous contribution scientist in middle or younger age from all of the institutes of CAS. The information of the scientists were added in DSECAS, including the most important contribution, major, title, age, sex etc.. The database was set up by Oracle.

WWW was connected to the database for the internet using. Managers of the institutes in different levels could momentarily modify the database through internet. From the momentarily modification, the database was guaranteed exactly and reliably. Users could get their search results by internet. They could get different information about the database according to the user's levels division. The search results could be individual information of each scientist, or the statistical results according to the user's requirement conditions.

Since DSECAS was established, it had been used in many field. It was useful in science and technology management. It was used for the scientist selection of Science and Technology Meeting, and for the government and local government decision. It was also used in the international exchange in science and technology. It was used for UNESCO to select 100 Chinese scientists to be its international experts, and for the government to select scientist to be the exchange visit scientists etc.

P-26. The use of the relative and absolute models to the calibration of Landsat TM data. Application to the semi-arid land of Laghouat (Algeria)
A.Bensaid, Z.Smahi, T. Iftene, National Centre of Spatial Techniques, Algeria

The precise interpretation and exploitation of remote sensing data is undertaken using radiometric and atmospheric corrections applied to satellite images in order to compensate the effects caused by the observation angle, irradiance and atmospheric conditions. However , a correction model is used to this aim. The mathematical equations integrated in this model allow the improvement of the spatial data quality.

In this paper, two radiometric correction models were used :
 relative model [4];
 absolute model [3].

Therefore, a software package using programme C, was performed. It is now available and used to undertake. It was tested on TM LANDSAT 5 which represent a semi-arid zone of Laghouat (Algeria).

P-27. Provision of the Operating Access to the Legal Information at the Libraries of the Institutions of Higher Education in Uzbekistan
D.R. Yusupov, Uzbekistan

The project of creation of thirteen legal information centres (LIC) at the regional libraries was fulfilled. The aim of the project was peoples legal education. Legal information centres are equipped with modern computer technics and have access to Internet. The legal adviser of legal information centre is a specialist of higher qualification, he possesses the latest information technologies. There are all necessary literature for work in the library, and computer information searching system on the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. This project showed a great demand in legal information, necessity of increasing legal culture for all inhabitants, and first of all the most socially vulnerable parts of society, private employers and students.

The following ways of legal information centre activity were set forth v work with local authorities work with Higher Educational Institutions colleges, schools (secondary) and other educational subdivisions, joint work with NGO (non-governmental organizations) and other public organizations, active work with mass media. A great number of legal consultations and activities set on solution of these problems are accumulated now days.

In order to deepen this project we set forth creation of automatic place of legal adviser, which consists of the following basic parts:

Existing informational v searching legal system on the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan ;
Electric copies of books, documents, magazines of legal and social information;
Structured and well v described notes on Internet resources:

a) on legal, juridical and social information (portals, sites, pages);
b) forums v discussions , legal consultations;
c) electronic news-sendings;
d) centres of distant education of legal and social problems;
The basis of inquires itself, consultations and accepted measures, as this legal information centre, so other regional centres. On the basis of these requires collected from the regional LIC, so called Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ v the list of frequently asked questions and answers) will be created. It will let the citizens, who have already applied the LIC get answers for their questions, more correctly draw up theirs inquiries and have definite notion on this centre.

On gathering a great number of inquires an expert system will be created, which will allow to choose consultations on the former questions automatically. The system will let search the information not only under determined inquires, but under the diffuse initial facts. The base of knowledge is formed as productional system with elements of fuzzy logic and technology neural networks, with the help of which decisions in expert system are synthesized.

The main way of solving the problem is fuzzy model compliancy second genus. Expert system lets solve hard formalizing problems, which leading to form (Characteristic event (situation) v Reason v Operation¦, in this occurrence (Inquiry v Legal advice - Result¦. As the jurisprudence concerns to area hard formulizing problems application of expert system with fuzzy logic is the most effective means of acceptance of decisions.

Creation of such automatic legal advisers in LIC and its subdivisions at the libraries of the Institutions of Higher connected with central LIC, will let widen citizen¦s approach to legal information, will make easier lawyer¦s work. The most important thing is to create valuable base of knowledge and consultations. Basing on this system its realization on internet technologies is necessary. Creations of a network of sites regional LIC with expansion of the user audience and new functionalities:

constant renovation of legal basis documents of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
the time-table of their meetings and report on their activity;
consulting in automatic regime v expert system;
Internet v forum;
creation and renovation of frequently asked questions;
individual consultations by e-mail with the legal adviser;

All these measures will let us explain the idea and contents of legal rules to the citizens in details, holding of seminars, trainings, a great support in the problem citizen¦s legal education. At first the system should be established in Higher Educational Institution libraries, in local authorities bodies and so on. All public libraries, Higher Educational Institutions Libraries, Tashkent State Institute of Law, Library Association of Uzbekistan and Ministry of Justice participate in this project.

P-28. Data Integration in a Data Acquisition System for Material Property Database
Xinyue Huang, Jun Shen and Yongbin Zheng, Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, China

The experimental data of material property from testing laboratory are becoming more and more important. They are widely used in the material property model, the material product quality control and engineering designation. However, it is difficult sometimes to collect these data from labs because the computer platforms are very different. During the past a few decades, they developed their own databases or e-files for their daily testing data. The data format, field name or unit for the same property item could be different. In this paper, the authors tried to develop a data integrate system based ASP. From this system, the data from various sources, such as the e-file of EXCEL and databases of DBASE III and FOXpro, are collected and put into the data warehouse designed for material property based on SQL Sever.

P-29. The Computational Methodology of Multiple Data Analysis for Inorganic Origin Oil and Gas--A Case Study in Qiangtang Basin of Tibet
Mingyuan Huo, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and Assistant to Mayor, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, China
Song Chen, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

The comprehensive evaluation system of oil and gas resources is based on the different types of origins of oil and gas resources. According to their origins, oil and gas resources can be classified into inorganic and organic origins. Researches in oil and gas geology show that the gross amount of oil and gas resources in a certain area is equal to the amount of inorganic origin oil and gas resources plus the amount of organic origin oil and gas resources. From some references, there are some recognized methods to compute the amount of organic origin oil and gas resources, but there are no preceding methods applied to compute the amount of inorganic origin oil and gas resources. Taking Qiangtang Basin in Tibet as an example, this paper firstly proposes a method to compute the amount of inorganic origin oil and gas resources. Based on the data sources, rising velocity (RV), the area of deep-seated structure (ADS), the action time of the earth’s crust after massif formation (ATEC), the equivalent of oil and gas (EOG), and the gross dissipation amount of oil and gas (GDAOG),together with the computational model. The result we computed shows that the amount of inorganic origin oil and gas resources in Qiangtang basin covers 40-60 billion tons.

P-30. Scientific Database and Its Application System of CAS
Xiao Yun, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

The Scientific Databases is a large comprehensive scientific information service system built jointly by dozens of subsidiary institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) in the past ten years. It is the first large-scale progrmatic database information system, multi-discipline, multi-type database and available on the Internet. It boasts a multitude of data of China's special resources, offering retrieval service in both concentrated and distributed modes. These valuable scientific resources have greatly enriched the existing domestic and foreign databases. This paper will introduce briefly the project background, current status and the next 5year(2001-2005) plan.

P-31. Ensuring sustainability access to data — value based approach
Conrad Sebego, CSIR/Satellite Applications Centre

One of the most effective ways of collecting primary data quickly is using space borne sensors that cover large areas whilst also providing repetitive geographical coverage. Space borne systems acquire data of the Earth's land, atmosphere and oceans. Satellite derived earth observation data has the potential to support numerous and diverse scientific disciplines, therefore encouraging the sharing, by government, of data reception costs and a concerted effort in focusing research activities in support of government requirements. This is all possible without the developing countries having to carry the major risks of designing, launching and operating a satellite.

Once large databases have been established, more value is realised by extensively mining the data for new techniques resulting in new applications and knowledge. This implies that a data usage policy must be established to govern access to the data, prevent data violations and protect new IP generated by scientists. This paper explores cost effective ways of obtaining primary research data that can be used to create new value by integrating with data from other sources.

The poster emphasises the importance of the value creation chain: i.e. opening the access to raw data with the aim of encouraging generation of new knowledge aligned with government, industrial and indeed scientific challenges.

P-32. ADRES: An online reporting system for veterinary hospitals
P.K. Sidhu and N.K. Dhand, Punjab Agricultural University, India

An animal husbandry department reporting system (ADRES) has been developed for online submission of monthly progress reports of veterinary hospitals. It is a database prepared under Microsoft Access 2000, which has records of all the veterinary hospitals and dispensaries of animal husbandry department, Punjab, India. Every institution has been given a separate ID. The codes for various infectious diseases have been selected according to the codes given by OIE (Office International des Epizooties). In addition to reports about disease occurrence, information can also be recorded for progress of insemination program, animals slaughtered in abattoirs, animals exported to other states and countries, animal welfare camps held and farmer training camps organized etc. Records can be easily compiled on sub-division, district and state basis and reports can be prepared online for submission to Government of India. It is visualized that the system may make the reports submission digital, efficient and accurate. Although, the database has been primarily developed for Punjab State, other states of India and other countries may also easily use it.

P-33. PAU_Epi~AID: A relational database for epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data management
N.K. Dhand, Punjab Agricultural University, India

A veterinary database (Punjab Agricultural University Epidemiological Animal disease Investigation Database, PAU_ Epi~AID) has been developed to meet the requirements of data management during outbreak investigations, monitoring and surveillance, clinical and laboratory investigations. It is based on Microsoft Access 2000 and includes a databank of digitalized information of all states and union territories of India. Information of districts, sub divisions, veterinary institutions and important villages of Punjab (India) has also been incorporated, every unit being represented by an independent numeric code. More than 60 interrelated tables have been prepared for registering information on animal disease outbreaks, farm data viz. housing, feeding, management, past disease history, vaccination history etc. and animal general information, production, reproduction and disease data. Findings of various laboratories such as bacteriology, virology, pathology, parasitology, molecular biology, toxicology, serology etc. can also be documented. Data can be easily entered in simple forms hyper-linked to one another, which allow queries and reports preparation at click of mouse. Flexibility has been provided for additional requirements due to diverse needs. The database may be of immense use in data storage, retrieval and management in epidemiological institutions and veterinary clinics.

P-34. New CODATA Journal
F. J. Smith, The Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland

Earlier this year (2002) CODATA launched its new journal: "Data Science Journal". Details including the aims of the journal and its scope with the first published papers can be consulted on the internet at

http://www.datasciencejournal.org

The first aim of the new journal is that it will be a quality journal , publishing papers about data and databases, but not publishing the data themselves, covering a range of subjects similar to the papers found already at CODATA conferences and workshops. To ensure that the quality of the papers published in the journal meets the standard normally found in other well known international journals, all papers will be refereed by at least two referees. To make the journal available to as wide a range of scientists and engineers as possible in both the developed and developing world, the journal will be primarily an electronic journal accessed over the internet. However, the journal will have the same structure as a printed journal, and after it has been refereed and accepted, each paper will be attributed a set of page numbers with a volume number and year of publishing as in other learned journals. To be successful the first requirement is that the data community of scientists and engineers send data papers to the journal; so I would invite the authors of papers to the Montreal Conference to submit their papers to the journal. Details of how to submit can be found at the above web site.

P-35. A Model for Live Mission Data Systems Using the OAIS Reference Model
Douglas Hughes, Jason Hyon, Sanda Mandutianu, Kathya Zamora
Data Distribution Laboratory, Caltech, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Space sciences are confronted with an overwhelming volume of data. The data rates are increasing, the granularity of registered observations is continuously refining, and computer technology allows producing terabytes of images and catalogs. The inexpensive emerging storage technologies, combined with the availability of high-speed communications, will offer the infrastructure for extremely large data repositories to be accessible on-line. Mission data will be quickly accessible almost immediately after they have been collected from space observations. On-line science will demand new tools and technologies for data access, data analysis, and data discovery. These trends will enhance the archival operational concepts mainly related to the long-term information preservation, placing an equally important emphasis on rapid data production, and dissemination to consumers.

However, archive storage technologies have lagged almost 5 years compared to real-time storage systems due to issues with media longevity and cost efficiency. Thus, there tend to be separate systems for an on-line processing operation and an archival operation. We do not see dramatic changes in this trend due to the nature of archive requirements in the near future. If there could be a combined system, which satisfies requirements from an operational system and archival system, it would be an ideal system that is cost effective and efficient. In this paper, we are proposing to build an efficient storage system to offer both state-of-the-art storage technology and longevity. We propose to develop a storage system, which combines reliable hardware technology with rigorous system operations concepts. We believe that the proposed system will satisfy both real-time processing system and archive system needs. We will discuss architecture, policies and processes, future trends, and operational concepts for both the hardware and software environment.

The assumption of OAIS (Open Archive Information System) is that information needs long-term preservation. Long term is to be concerned with impact of changing technologies, including support for new media and data formats, or with a changing user community. The near-term preservation is concerned with more stringent access modes, a known and potentially narrower designated community and possibly with real time or online requirements. We advocate architecture at the confluence of these requirements. This model will apply to any space mission data system. The current mission data systems are characteristically built for the duration of the mission, with the main purposes of satisfying the mission needs. We are studying the effects of a longer-term perspective on using and preserving the data, and we determine what is the desirable architecture for achieving both goals.

P-36. Units Markup Language - An XML Schema for Scientific Units
Robert A. Dragoset, Barry N. Taylor, and Michael J. McLay, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the universal format for the exchange of structured documents and data over the Internet. XML is a set of rules, guidelines, conventions, for designing text formats for structured data (e.g. spreadsheets, configuration parameters, financial transactions, technical drawings, scientific data, etc.), in a way that produces files that are easy to generate and read (by a computer), that are unambiguous, and that avoid common pitfalls, such as lack of extensibility, lack of support for internationalization/localization, and platform-dependency. To date, the development of markup languages to address the needs of specific communities (e.g. mathematics, chemistry, materials science, etc.) has either not addressed the issue of encoding measurement units information with numeric data or has addressed this issue independently for each markup language. This poster will include a description of UnitsML (Units Markup Language), a proposed XML schema for encoding measurement units in XML consistent with the SI (International System of Units), and several instance documents illustrating practical use of UnitsML. Adoption of this schema will allow for the unambiguous exchange of numerical data over the Internet. In addition, we will discuss the development of a repository of detailed measurement units information.

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