14. CODATA 1994: Chambéry, France

Jacques-Emile Dubois, Nahum Gershon (Eds.): The Information Revolution: Impact on Science and Technology. Papers from CODATA Conf. 1994, 18-22 September 1994, Chambéry, France. Springer, 1996, ISBN 3-540-60855-9

Part One: Emergence of an Information Society: Facts and Challenges

Information Highways: Internet and Web Service

Nahum D. Gershon, William Ruh, Brian Dickens, Joshua LeVasseur: Information Highways: Internet and Web Services. 3-12
Fionn Murtagh: Content-Based Information Retrival: New Tools for Textual Data, New Problems for Image Data. 13-20
Joel Winstead, Nahum D. Gershon: The World-Wide Web: A Global Source of Data and Information. 21-28
Frank Kappe: Structuring and Visualizing Hyperspace with Hyper-G. 29-42
Jacques-Emile Dubois, Belhadri Messabih: Internet-Web and ST Data Management: Harmonization and New Horizons. 43-56
Barbara E. Kirsop, Andy Edwards, Sidnei Souza: Onnline Electronic Publishing: Developing Infrastructure for the Electronic Reader. 57-62
Jacques Ducloy, Jean-Charles Lamirel, Emmanuel Nauer: A Workbench for Bibliographic or Factual Data Handling. 63-70

Obstacles to a Free or Fair Circulation of Scientific Data

André Heck: A Few Facets of the Kaleidoscope of Scientific Information. 71-82
Michael A. Chinnery: ICSU Policy on Access to Data and Information. 83-86
Shelton Alexander, Paul F. Uhlir: Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data. 87-92
George Papapavlou: Legal and Economic Aspects of Data Production and Transfer. 93-100
Bartolomé Orfila: Guidelines of a European Meteorological Services Policy on Data Exchange. 101-106

Distributed Data and Information Networks

Richard J. Olson, Robert S. Turner, Charles T. Garten Jr.: Integrated Ground-Based and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Global Studies of Environmental Change. 107-112
Arild Jansen, Pål Sørgaard: Critical Factors for the Use of Public Databases. 113-122
Michael J. Kurtz, Günther Eichhorn, Stephen S. Murray, Carolyn Stern-Grant, Alberto Accomazzi: The NASA Astrophysics Data System: A Heterogeneous Distributed Data Environment. 123-130
Jean-Charles Profizi: Computer Networks with Episodic Links and the Use of Portable Computers. 131-140
Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy, Phillipe Darche, Bertil Folliot: Dynamic Management of Cooperative Applications for Mobile Systems. 141-148

Part Two: Worldwide and Regional Information Systems, Policies and Programs

UNESCO Policy, Worldwide Networks, Regional Exchange Equity

Adnan Badran: UNESCO Policy on Data Exchange: Grave Disparities in Scientific Data Access. 151-162
Steve F. Rossouw: Networking Africa's Scientific and Technical Information Resources. 163-170
Lamine Abdat, Belhadri Messabih: New Technologies (Multimedia - Hypertext - Hypermedia) Potential Use in Developing Countries. 171-178
Abdoulaye Gaye: Barriers to International Technology Transfer. 179-182
Zhihong Xu: The Development of a Scientific Research data Network System in China. 183-188

Numerical, Textual and Image Databases

Eberhard R. Hilf, Bernd Diekmann, Heinrich Stamerjohanns, Jacob Curdes: Integrated Information Management for Physics. 189-196
Ekkehard Fluck, Henry V. Kehiaian: Numerical Databases - Can We Afford Them? 197-202
Valdiodio Ndiaye: Teaching Biology by Video Images Assisted by Computer: Embryological Labroratories. 203-210
Zhihong Xu: The State of Chinese Materials Databases. 211-216

Case Study: Worldwide Bioinformatics Distributed Databases

M. L. Harrie Lalieu: Bioinformatics - Pulling the European Strings Together. 217-222
Akira Tsugita: Bioinformatics in East Asia. 223-226
Lois D. Blaine: Bioinformatics in the United States: Recent Trends from a Microbiological Perspective. 227-238
Marcella Attimonelli, D. Calo, A. Depascali, M. Porzio, F. Tanzariello, M. Vitale, Cecilia Saccone: MmtDB: The Metazoa Mitochonrial DNA Variants Specialized Database. 239-248
Lunjiang Ling, Junko Shimura, Hideaki Sugawara, Akira Tsugita: Epitope Data Bank. 249-254
Katsuhisa Horimoto, Kunio Oshima, Akira Tsugita, Jinya Otsuka: Protein Superfamily Database (Prosup). 255-262
Ashok S. Kolaskar, Prashant S. Naik: Concerted Use of Multiple Databases for Taxonomic Insights. 263-270