The information revolution : impact on science and technology

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The information revolution : impact on science and technology

J.E. Dubois, N. Gershon, eds

(Data and knowledge in a changing world)

Springer-Verlag , CODATA, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The series Data and Knowledge in a Changing World covers the quality and accessability of quantitative and qualitative data, classical and ground-breaking methods by which numeric and symbolic data are acquired, analyzed, and managed. The current volume is devoted to the impact of Internet and WWW communication of data.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Emergence of an information society - facts and challenges: information highways - Internet and Web services
  • obstacles to a free or fair circulation of scientific data
  • distributed data and information networks. Part 2 Worldwide and regional information systems, policies and programs: UNESCO policy, worldwide networks, regional exchange equity
  • numerical, textual and image databases
  • case study - worldwide bioinformatics distributed databases.

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