Welcoming the guests

Moin Moin

As Managing Director of ISN Oldenburg GmbH AN of the CvO, I would like to open our first annual workshop.

We would like to thank the university and BIS for their hospitality and for making the lecture theatre available.

I. The aim of the workshop

is to introduce you:

1. What is the mission of the Institute,
2. What do we do?
3. Who we work with,
4. How do the guest speakers see the future of scientific information management,
5. and how they see the possible role and contribution of an Institute as small as ours.

II Programme of the workshop

Three sessions, three perspectives on the future

1. that of the information service providers,
2. that of our partners abroad,
3. that of our academic colleagues.

The invited speakers will each give an introduction
and some members of staff will give a brief insight into the related work at the Institute.

These public presentations of personal ideas are intended to stimulate the subsequent internal technical discussions at the Institute.

III The mission of the ISN

To research and develop services that serve the information and communication of scientists and make their work more efficient.
[The engine room of the big players' ships.

Natural partners are

1. Development partners at home and abroad (IWI, VT, MSU,..)
2. the local information infrastructure facilities, such as our BIS
3. the national libraries, such as TIB, SUB,
4. national and international specialist organisations such as EPS, DGM, IuK
5. national initiatives such as DINI.
6. the international standardisation bodies such as the DC, W3C of the WWW.

IV. Vision

1. Information and communication in the sciences is most effective when it is organised online at
   , openly, without direct access barriers and conveniently for scientists.
2. The realisation will be based on a professional division of labour and
3. and by means of distributed information sources. This requires a need for
4. Development of tools for new forms of scientific information and communication, such as forms of information and communication, such as
   1. Management of complete materials, programme codes, measurement data,
   2. direct communication,
   3. condensation of knowledge for future convenient direct use,
   4. graduated refereeing after dissemination via the net,...], and above all
   5. a professional division of labour between
      1. the scientists as producers and users,
      2. the information infrastructure organisations,
      3. the bridges to the commercial service providers, such as OFFICE,
      4. and the technical collaborators (planning, development of services and tools) such as the ISN.

V. Some lines of work

1. Online in-house document management for individual scientific Institutes and libraries
2. Online document systems for institutions with distributed locations
3. Development and operation of Internet portals for the sciences and their specialised fields
4. Development of authoring tools for the use of metadata
5. Organisation and implementation of training courses
6. Representation of the interests of scientific organisations from Germany in international standardisation committees (DC, OAi and above all W3C)

VI. projects at the Institute

1. Software for workflow in university presses .
   I would like to welcome Hans-Joachim Wätjen, head of the Ol. Library and Information System BIS, which for us is an essential part of the supporting infrastructure for the ISN, and for whom the ISN is developing the workflow for the DFG project GAP (German Academic Publishers).
2. Subject-specific portals in co-operation with scientific societies
   Here I would like to welcome Mr Martin Bömeke from the TIB Hannover, for whom we are working on the DFG project Virtual Physics Portal.
3. The networking of the globally distributed document databases of the scientific institutes is a major challenge. Here I would like to welcome Dr Neuroth from the SUB Göttingen and announce the arrival of Ed Fox, VT, USA, with whom we are collaborating on the NSF and DFG-funded project Open Archive Distributed for Physicists and Graduates
4. The development of tools for verification according to international standards
   Here I would like to welcome Dr Judith Plümer from the IWI (Institute for Scientific Information, OS), who also works for the IMU (International Mathematical Union). We also did research with her until February in the BMBF project Global-Info: CARMEN.
5. Tools for eLearning at universities for the collection and verification of learning modules.
   Here I would like to welcome Prof Schecker, the project leader of Physik Multimedial, a BMBF project involving five universities in northern Germany.
6. Collaboration in national and international committees
   Here I would like to welcome my colleague Peter Diepold from the DGfE, board member of DINI (German Initiative for Network Information) and project leader of the DFG Dissertions Online programme, which has been so successful throughout Germany

VII The embedding of the ISN at the university

The ISN is a scientific Institute with the typical characteristics:

• We only do what we find intellectually interesting
• have no industrial contracts and do not advertise to industry,
  However, I would like to welcome representatives from industry, Mr Marcus Blöchinger from SAP, Dr Peter Borrmann from IBM and Gesine Hilf from BAAN Deutschland GmbH .
• My thanks go to the employees of the ISN, who not only stand for the performance and expertise of the Institute, but also share the risks as shareholders of the GmbH
• My thanks go to our partner at the university, the Department of Physics, with whom we are carrying out a number of joint R&D projects. Here I would like to welcome the members of my former department who are present, such as my closest subject colleague Alexander Rauh.
• The work of the ISN is made possible by the funding organisations: BMBF, DFG, DFN and the state of Lower Saxony.
• Finally, I would like to extend a special welcome to the President of our university, Prof Dr Siegfried Grubitzsch. He saw the development potential of an Institute AN of the University early on through co-operation and, together with his competent staff, paved the way.

I am delighted that he will now be welcoming you himself.