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I. 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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