Message 1/156  From Eberhard Hilf                   Mar 28, 99 08:36:00 pm +0100


Subject: Elmau Daten
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 20:36:00 +0100 (NFT)

1. Full title of talk:
   Integration of Research Institutes into the
future world-wide network
of scientific information

2. Abstract:
First, a brief personal sketch of what the future world-wide
network
of scientific information may be, is given.
It is argued that only systems which are redundant
(multiple copies of documents), distributed
not dependent on the fate of individual institutes),
complete (cover all research institutions worldwide),
specific (contain only scientific information),
unique (tranparent and coherent with regard to different
fields in science), and most efficient for actual research
(easy access to information on demand) will survive.

Present experiments and projects are briefly mentioned.

More specifically a scenario for research institutes such as
the MPI is discussed, also with regard to differences
to Departments at Universtities.

Finally, several projects and collections are presented which
point in this direction:

1. ) the prototype of document management system of the AWI
(Alfred Wegener Institut fuer Polar-und Meeresforschung)
1. ) the prototype of document management system of the AWI
(Alfred Wegener Institut fuer Polar-und Meeresforschung)
(which includes Dublin Core metadata, and contains electronic
automatic upload and management components).
(Not yet on service).

2.) The Worldwide Network of all Physics Institutions
(Departments, Research Institutes, etc., in total about 1.500).
maintained by the European Physical Society.

3.) A worldwide distributed Database for scientific documents
in physics.

4.) New developments in the central Database for scientific
documents (LANL eprint Archive and its mirrors).
Germany has now a fully operable upload station allowing additional
formats (such as even WORD), and several internal mirrors.

5.) Linking the central and the distributed document networks
wnd the publishers, as well as other databases.
A service (MetapPhys) is demonstrated.

6.) Business models of a research institute
for Journals of Publishers (commercial and others).
Comparisons are presented of experiments to maximize the
amount of retrieved scientific informaiton asked fo a
specific project using different information channels.
(Journals vs. Search engines plus email contact to authors,
Web-sites of research institutes ..).

Finally the present status of international and of
interdisciplinary  actions to aim at one coherent system is
informed upon.
More specifically, Mathematics and Physics have a perfect
working relationship due to their very similar requirements and habits,
and due to the activities of the IuK Initiative  of Information and
Communication of the learned societies in Germany.


3. ) Eberhard R. Hilf, Prof. Dr. Dr.
4.) AG Theoretische Physik III
(Atomare und molekulare Cluster)
Fachbereich Physik
Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet