The Information Revolution: Impact on Science and Technology

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Dealing with the Data Deluge. Visualization and Data Management....Pages 3-12
Content-Based Information Retrieval: New Tools for Textual Data, New Problems for Image Data....Pages 13-20
The World-Wide Web: A Global Source of Data and Information....Pages 21-28
Structuring and Visualizing Hyperspace with Hyper-G....Pages 29-42
Internet-Web and St Data Management: Harmonization and New Horizons....Pages 43-56
Online Electronic Publishing: Developing Infrastructure for the Electronic Reader....Pages 57-62
A Workbench for Bibliographic or Factual Data Handling....Pages 63-70
A Few Facets of the Kaleidoscope of Scientific Information....Pages 71-82
ICSU Policy on Access to Data and Information....Pages 83-86
Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data....Pages 87-92
Legal and Economic Aspects of Data Production and Transfer....Pages 93-100
Guidelines of a European Meteorological Services Policy on Data Exchange....Pages 101-106
Integrated Ground-Based and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Global Studies of Environmental Change....Pages 107-112
Critical Factors for the Use of Public Databases....Pages 113-122
The NASA Astrophysics Data System: A Heterogeneous Distributed Data Environment....Pages 123-130
Computer Networks with Episodic Links and the Use of Portable Computers....Pages 131-140
Dynamic Management of Cooperative Applications for Mobile Systems....Pages 141-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-150
Unesco Policy on Data Exchange: Grave Disparities in Scientific Data Access....Pages 151-162
Networking Africa’s Scientific and Technical Information Resources....Pages 163-170
New Technologies (Multimedia — Hypertext — Hypermedia) Potential Use in Developing Countries....Pages 171-178
Front Matter....Pages 149-150
Barriers to International Technology Transfer....Pages 179-182
The Development of a Scientific Research Data Network System in China....Pages 183-188
Integrated Information Management for Physics....Pages 189-196
Numerical Databases-Can We Afford Them?....Pages 197-202
Teaching Biology by Video Images Assisted by Computer: Embryological Laboratories....Pages 203-210
The State of Chinese Materials Databases....Pages 211-216
Bioinformatics — Pulling the European Strings Together....Pages 217-222
Bioinformatics in East Asia....Pages 223-226
Bioinformatics in the United States: Recent Trends from a Microbiological Perspective....Pages 227-238
MmtDB: The Metazoa Mitochondrial DNA Variants Specialized Database....Pages 239-248
Epitope Data Bank....Pages 249-254
Protein Superfamily Database (Prosup)....Pages 255-262
Concerted Use of Multiple Databases for Taxonomic Insights....Pages 263-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-273