DSAO has represented for the past 12 years for the countries of The Pacific Rim of Asia (and slightly later for Oceania) a CODATA Task Group held in high esteem for its productivity and effectiveness. Unlike most T.G's it was not content merely to observe and compile but endeavored to bring the less progressive countries into full-fledged membership in the information age! It accomplished its mission very effectively, and kept CODATA apprised of the rapid enhancement of the region's achievement.
It found funding not alone in CODATA itself, but also in convincing the region's National Committees of its worth. Their modus operandi and their success and unusual achievement under their three successive Japanese chairmen are described, as well as their frequent meetings, workshops, and conferences often attended by CODATA officers as well as their hundreds of pages of progress together with database descriptions and database directories in CODATA Special Reports and culminating in a bilingual Resource Handbook of Science and Technology on the Web which---although it enjoyed support from other sources--- was characteristic of the mind-set of the Task Group.
In it's original deliberations on funding of the Task Group the Executive Committee was motivated by curiosity of what (exotic) subjects might be hidden by the language, but were surprised in the end with the worth and valor of the Task Group. Could not a similar indomitable endeavor yield fruit in Africa?
A brief discussion of interesting, recent developments in databases widely used by many disciplines and environmental endeavors---such as thermodynamics, for example---provides insight into typical problems involved in the new millennium vis a vis database generation, creation, and in the concurrent and subsequent effects on data mining.
Proposed as Working Group by Prof. Ofsugi at Executive Committee 1986 and 1987. [Declined]
Third Proposal 1988. Funded as Task Group! Curiosity of Executive Committee and that of Pacific Rim Countries. [Funded]
Has had a 12-year run as a Producing Task Group- bringing the less developed neighbors into "The Information Age" and benefiting in cooperative multi-national database projects.
Edgar F. Westrum, Jr.
Sole Occidental Member
Terms of Reference:
This task Group, established as a Working Group in 1987 and upgraded to a Task Group in 1988, has produced a Directory of East Asian Data Sources and Three Special Reports
The Task Group seeks to be effective in promoting and enhancing the development of reliable databases in its region of concern
The Proceedings of the last recent Task Group Meetings in Korea, Japan, and in India has been published on the Web (http://codata.kordic.re.kr/proceeding/codata.html)
The Task Group plans to organize several meetings for management standardization, and quality control of data in Asia and Oceanic countries. Output of these meetings will also be published in print or on the Web.
Countries
| Asian | Oceanic | Other |
|
China=3 |
Australia=1 |
USA=1 |
| 19 | 8 | 1 |
|
Countries:
Total=11 |
||
Chairman
Prof. Akira Tsugita(Japan)
Vice-Chairman
Prof. Mu Shik Jhon(So.
Korea)
Dr. Richard J. Simpson(Australia)
Prof. SUN Honglie(China)
Honorary Members
Prof. Jiang Chusheng(China)
Prof. M. Kizawa(Japan)
Prof. Mitsuo Tasumi(Japan)
Members
Dr. Rukasih Dardjat(Indonesia)
Prof. S. Fucharoen(Thailand)
Dr. K. Lal(India)
Dr. G.-L Sipin(Philippines)
Prof. E. F. Westrum, Jr.(USA)
Prof. Jen-Leih Wu(Taiwan)
Dr. Z. H. Zaidi(Pakistan)
Consulting Members
Dr. Poonson Atthasampunna(Thailand)
Dr. S. C. Chang(Taiwan)
Dr. Moon Hi Han(Taiwan)
Prof. HU Yaruo(China)
Prof. Y. Itikawa(Japan)
Prof. S. Iwata(Japan)
Dr. Jin Hyung Kim(So.
Korea)
Prof. A. S. Kolaskar(India)
Dr. Takashi Kunisawa(Japan)
Dr. K.-T. Shao(Taiwan)
Dr. Junko Shimura(Japan)
Prof. H. Sugawara(Japan)
Prof. Masahisa Sugiura(Japan)
Dr. Morakot Tanticharoen(Thailand)
Dr. K. Tanabe(Japan)
Executive Committee Liaison
Prof. SUN Honglie(China)
Dr. J. Osugi, 1986-1989 (Japan)
Dr. M. Tasumi, 1989-1995 (Japan)
D r. A. Tsugita, 1996-
(Japan)
From:……..East Asian Countries
To:………..Asian-Oceanic Countries
Blue Book
DIRECTORY-Data Sources in
Asian-Oceanic Countries
Yaruo Hu and Edgar F. Westrum, Jr.
(1994)
Red Book
Data Activities and Database
Developments in China, Japan,
and Korea
Yaruo Hu and Edgar F. Westrum,
Jr. (1989)
Red Book
Database Developments in
Asian-Oceanic Countries
Yaruo Hu and Edgar F. Westrum,
Jr. (1994)
Resource Handbook of Science &
Technology on the Web
By Hu Yaruo, Yiao Yun & Zhang Hui
...stimulated by DSAO but independently produced through People's Post & Telecommunications Publishing House...
Contents:
Ten Categories:
Sponsors: Academia Sinica (Taipei) CODATA/ICSU, National Research Instate of Chinese Medicine & Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Life Science Research Promotion Program, National Science Council, Taipei
Special Events: Visits to Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Visits to Earthquake Sites in Wu-Feng and Nan-Tou Orears; Poster Session, Banquet, Etc.
Participants:
About 106.
Natural Systems
"Databases for Volcanic Hazard
Mitigation" {USA}
"Evaluation of Earthquake
Potential and Databases" {Japan}
"A status Report of Data
Bank for Atmospheric Research" {Taiwan}
"Taiwan Earthquake Rapid
Information Release System" {Taiwan}
"Resource Satellite Data
in Eastern Asia" {Taiwan}
"Groundwater Monitoring
Network in Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"National Center for
Ocean Research Databank in Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"Databases Enhancement
and Networking in Africa" {Senegal}
"Strong-Motion Seismology
in Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"Integration and Applications
of Continuous GPS Data in Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"Using Dynamic Web Technology
for the Development of Chi-Chi Earthquake Reconnaissance Database" {Taiwan}
"Principles and Basic
Approaches in Development of Wildlife Resources Databases and Inventories in
Ukraine" {Ukraine}
"The Plant Biodiversity
and its Economic Importance in Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"Biodiversity Conservation
in India: Issues and Imperatives" {India}
"CRUSTACEA DECAPODA:
Problem Choices Implemented from the Literature. A Worldwide Bibliography from
Andalusia" {Spain}
"A Korean Ethno-Economic
Database" {Korea}
"Microbial Populations
of Power Plants in Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"Greenhouse Gases Emission
from Agricultural Production" {Taiwan}
Medicinal
"Application of Biotechnological
Tools in Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Genetic Resources"
{Taiwan}
"Recent Discovery of
New Drug Candidates from Medicinal Plants" {USA}
"Introduction of the
Chinese-Medicine Database" {Taiwan}
"Collection of Medicinal
Plants Sited at the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute of Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"A Medicinal Plant Database
of Papua New Guinea II" {Japan}
Microbiological Science
"The State of the Art and Epitome
of Methods in Proteome Research" {Japan}
"Bioinformatics in Understanding
Biocomplexity" {USA}
"Development of the Microbial
Strain Databases of CCRC/FIRDI in Taiwan" {Taiwan}
"Using Plant Genetic
Resources Database to Establish a Mungbean Core Collection" {Taiwan}
"Current Status of Animal
Cell Bank in Taiwan" {Taiwan}