ERIC ED354888: European Association of Information Services (EUSIDIC) Annual Conference (Porto, Portugal, October 13-15, 1992). Programme and Summary Presentations.

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ABSTRACT
This newsletter issue reports on the 1992 EUSIDIC
annual conference. The conference program is included, and conference
presentations from five sessions, entitled "Technology Trends,"
"Images and Imagination," "New Techniques, New Problems," "Commercial
Changes," "New Audiences for Information," and "The Image Invasion,"
are summarized. The newsletter also presents a history of the
25-year-old IDC-KTHB, a Swedish information organization. (KRN)
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NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION
OF INFORMATION SERVICES
In this issue
Annual Conference
Conference Programme
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Session Summaries
25 years of IDC -KTHB
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Three (short) reviews
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Editor: Barry Mahon
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Members of EUSIDIC Council 1992
Tel: [phone]
Pierre Buffet, Chairman
Questel, S.A., France
Tel: [phone]
Rosa de la Vieeca, Vice Chairman
ICYT, Spain
Tel: [phone]
Helena Basilier, Vice Chairman
Kone, Finland
Tel: [phone]
Mickey Risseeuw, Treasurer
International Translations Centre, The Netherlands
Tel: [phone]
Peter Clague,
Former Director of Inspec
Tel: [phone]
Helen Henderson,
IME, U.K.
Tel: [phone]
Bernward Jenschke
HZ, Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: [phone]
Nigel Oxbrow, Vice Chairman
I t-PL, U.K.
Tel: [phone]
Marino Saksida,
ESA-IRS, Italy
Tel: [phone]
Leo Waaiiers
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Co-opted:
Tel: [phone]
Anne Girard
Institut Francais du Petro le, France
Tel: [phone]
Arnoud de Kemp
Springer Venag, Germany
Services
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This publication copyright © 1992 EUSIDIC. No part of this publication may be
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Annual Conference 1992
a question Or would like more
The 1992 Annual Conference
was held in Porto. Portugal
information you may make et.-1-
from October 13 to 15 1992.
tact with them directly.
Over 140 delegates enjoyed
three days of stimulating dis-
cussion and listened to a se-
ries of presentations which
covered a whole range of top-
ics in the information sector.
The weather was clement
during the conference
but
for those who thought to spend
a few days in Portugal after
the event the weathcr was not
so kind. on the Friday after the
Pavin.:. attention:
conference finished the rains
Tomas Baiget & Rosa de la Fiesta
ho were
came! Those of vou
not able to he present may
therefore feel pleased that you
were spared that. even thou2h
you missed a 000d confer-
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ence.
What follows is a resume of
for which
the presentations
the Editor is uateful to the
session Chairmen forthe notes
which helped in the compila-
tion.
Informal Conversation:
We are ()hen asked jrom jr O
Robin Oliphant of the FT & Nigel Oxbrow of
the proceedint; s of Eusidi
TFPL
conlerences and there is a
The secretariat would like to take this opportunity to thank all
policy not to produce pro-
those who helped to make Porto a success. The feedback was
ceedino - so that the presen-
universally positive for which we are grateful (and relieved!).
tations may he as inlOrmal as
The help, both moral and physical, provided by our Portuguese
the speakers wish and to avoid
friends was invaluable and much appreciated as were the efforts
pressure on the speakers who
of the members of the Conference Committee under Chairman
are normally very busy peo-
Anne Girard.
ple. As a compromise, we have
decided this year to include
the telephone or fax numbers
oldie speakers, so if .rote have
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Programme
Image information projects and products in the
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,tlititelval'
field of agriculture
Dr Manuel Domingues, Ministerio da Agricultura,
Chairman: Pierre Buffet, Questel, France
Images and Imagination
foun-
New Information Handling Technologies
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Chadwyck-Healey
dation for an Information Economy
Ltd., Fax: [phone]
Nick Farmer, Chemical Abstracts Service,
Columbus, Ohio, Fax:[phone]
The smart card and applications in information
services
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Tim Baker, Gemplus, France, Fax: [phone]
Chairman: Nigel Oxbrow, 11-PL
Merging Information from different media and
sources, providing a common interface.
Hugh Look, Longman Cartermill, Fax: + 44 344
Natdral Language in Document Analysis and In-
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formation Access
The next level of Document Communication
Bill Black, UMIST , Manchester, UK, Fax: +44
200 3099
Christina Liberman, Manager of Channel Develop-
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ment, Abobe Systems, Europe, Fax: +31 20
Digital Geographic Databases - the technical and
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administrative issues
Heinz Priemer. European GIS Co-Ordinator, IBM
Fax: [phone]
Chairman: Helena Basilier, Kone, Finland
Intellectual property protection and digitised in-
formation
SIGANIS - a multimedia information system for
nature reserves in Portugal
P.H. Van Wiechen, Elsevier, NL, Fax: [phone]
3706
Ana Luisa T Gomes, Centro Nacional e Informacao
Geografica, Fax: [phone]
(European) Public Lending Right, its impact on
publishing.
The RAMA Project, Remote Access for Museum
Archives
Emanuella Giaverra, Director, EBLIDA,
Fax: [phone]
James Hemsley, Brameur, Aldershot, UK,
Fax: [phone]
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Newspapers on CD-ROM
SessionikCominercial Changes.
Justin Arundale, The Independent, UK,
Chairman: Helen Henderson
Fax: + 44 71 956 1555
The marketing of CD-ROMs: different needs,
Understanding the patterns of Japanese informa-
different methods
tion
Art Elias, Information Management, Philadelphia.
Mindy Kotler, Japan Information Access Project,
USA, Fax: [phone]
Washington DC, Fax: [phone]
Bela Hatvany, SilverPlatter, London, UK
Marketing Scientific Information to and from Ja-
Fax: + 44 81 995 5159
pan
Randall Marcinko, Dynamic Information Corp.,
Betty Unruh, Chemical Abstracts Service.
USA, Fax: [phone]
Columbus, USA. Fax: + 1 614 447 3713
The Tripartite Agreement between the EPO, JPO
and USPTO, its impact on patent information.
ge.ssiorr6:,The image invasion
Robert Bare, European Patent Office, The Hague,
,
NL, Fax: [phone]
A round table discussion featuring:
The mechanics of co-operation for an international
information marketplace
Peter Clague, Inspec
Nick Farmer, Chemical Abstracts, USA
Denise Lohner, CEA
Heinz Ochsner, Radio Suisse
Richard Harris, Predicasts, USA
Arnoud de Kemp, Springer Verlag, Germany
Thursday 15,0etober
Diane Hoffmann, BIOSIS, USA
Session St NewAUdiences for informanoir:
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Chairman: Arnoud de Kemp, Springer Verlag,
The role of Multimedia in developing new learning
environments
Stephen Heppel, Anglia Polytechnic University,
Tel: [phone]
UK
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The Adobe product is not unique
overall message was that we will
Session 1
there are already similar prod-
have as we have come to expect
ucts available from a number of
almost. more power. more speed.
vendors, but given the penetra-
more capacity in smaller and
The first session was under the
tion of the Postscript software of
smaller packages. Nick painted a
Chairmanship of Pierre Buffet,
which this product is a develop-
picture where the individual in-
Chairman of Eusidic and con-
ment and with which it is totally
formation user will have at their
sisted of presentations from Nick
compatible, then its future seems
Farmer of Chemical Abstracts,
disposal a work station with more
assured. However. Postscript is
or less infinite capacity thanks to
Tim Baker of Gemplus, France.
Hugh Look of Longman
not a standard. so compatibility
local and remote networking.
Christina
with, for example. SGML has to
and
Cartermill
which will have many times more
he a problem.
capacity than today. will be con-
Liberman of Adobe. Europe.
nected via broad
The session was designed as a
band networks to
scene setter on new technolo-
`hosts' which will
carry enormous
gies. Whilst it might seem invidi-
quantities of data
ous to pick out one paper there is
no doubt that Christina Liberman
and offer a tenfold
improvement in
caused the biggest stir. She pre-
sented in a very professional man-
price/pertbrmanee
compared to to-
ner a new product which Adobe
day's processor
the originators of the Postscript
for printing) will
language
and transmit data
launch in early 1993. code named
and graphics more
Carousel. The product which will
or less instantly to
retail at about S300 enables a
the user.
publisher to create a text with
He was sanguine
style layout. colour etc. on One
about the capacity
machine with one software and
formation
of the
ensure that it can he read and
producers and dis-
even edited if necessary of any
tributors to keep
other machine with any other
their products in
relevant software. The effect will
step with the tech-
he that. for example. a publisher
nology. but he pre-
dicted that software would he
can create a newsletter mother
Close questioning:
publication, distribute it on any
developed to improve database
Leo Waaijers. TU Delft
production and editing.
medium w ith the Adobe product
and it can he read in its original
Nick Farmer started the session
style and presentation by any user
with a masterful survey of the
regardless of their equipment. It
upcoming technologies and their
also moans that documents can
affect on the information pro-
be created by multiple authors in
ducer. distributor and user. He
networks witInut regard to the
covered all aspects, hardware.
hardware and software available
software and transmission. The
to the individual authors.
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itto the application.
Tim Baker followed with a re-
This would require
view of the "Smart Card'' and its
more 'run time
application in information related
availability of fa-
environments. lie took a broad
miliar software
view of information since the card
built in to informa-
is designed as a mass market
products,
tion
product and classified its use
word processors.
undera numberof headings. most
spreadsheets.
of which were concerned with
graphics
control of one kind or another
packages.etc.
(see Peter Van Wiechens presen-
Hugh predicted
tation later for one specific ex-
that processing Ian-
ample;. One of the worries asso-
twages like SGML
ciated with the greater availabil-
would have to he
ity of documents via facilities like
utilised to
the Internet is that their validity is
I3orut Justin. representing our member in
a) reduce the inter-
not control led. Tim offered some
Slovenia
mediate processing
tantalising glimpses of how the
in changing from
card could be used in network
one medium to an-
environments to exercise version
other and
control on documents, as a means
b) smooth the tran-
of authorising or prohibiting ed-
sitions from origi-
iting. Similarly payment systems
nal author through
can he initiated via the card as can
publisher to end
'simple' access control. He talked
medium.
also about 'rechargeable' cards
Given that many
which could be filled up with new
r
'money. or authorisations and
publishers have not
yet seriously in-
multiple user versions with more
than one password.
volved themselves
ith SGML this
Tim was followed by Hugh Look
could prove pain-
who talked about the design of
ful!
user interfaces in the world of
Bill Black from UMIST
multiple media. He indicated that
with downward pressure on
prices for all types of information
products the design of interfaces
had to he efficient and reusable
between products. He predicted
that more and more users would
want to manipulate data inside
not export it to.
the application
say. a spreadsheet and re-import
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Sir Charles Chadwyck Healey
Domingues did not allow himself'
Session 2 Images and Imagina-
contented himself' with words,
enough time to show us more.
tion
not pictures. when describing the
future for graphics based sys-
Dr James Hemsley made muse-
The session Chairman was Helena
tems. He asked whether the way
much
ums and their treasures very
Basilier of Kone, retiring vice
ahead was democracy or over-
alive for everybody. He described
Chairman of Eusidic.
lo!xl - would the availability of
the project RAMA designed to
the new media mean that more
make the facilities of museums
The session opened the door to
people could access more infor-
available to everybody as well as
the fascinating world of images
mation by more means or were
more specialised material to ar-
and the role of images as infor-
they just going to be swamped?
chivists, researchers, journalists.
mation transfer agents. We had
The options available for image
educators, art dealers and mu-
the opportunity to hear our two
based information systems were
seum staff. The Muse4 d'Orsay
Portuguese colleagues describe
infinite but there were problems.
will implement the pilot installa-
two exciting projects in their
One was copyright. Sir Charles
tion followed by museums in
domains, both concerned, for
expressed the opinion that the
Spain and Germany in 1994. The
different reasons. with nature.
issue had to he solved satisfacto-
system is not intended to replace
rily before there could be signifi-
visiting museums, which Dr
Luisa Gomes from the National
cant progress for commercial
Hemsley discovered was an ac-
Centre for Geographical Infor-
developers. The associated prob-
tivity well observed by the audi-
mation illustrated the work they
lems of electronic 'leakage' and
ence, but could be used for 'pre
have done to build and develop a
corruption could also delay
visiting' or by researchers com-
data base on the facilities of the
progress. However, he was of
paring collections of items of the
nature reserves in Portugal. The
the opinion that especially CD-
same artist or period. When asked
database contains thematic maps.
ROM was already offering sig-
from the audience why Italy was
of roads. waterways, flora and
nificant opportunities.
not included Dr Hemsley an-
fauna at the national. regional
swered that they had their own
and local level. It was developed
Since Image Management is the
projects of a similar nature.
develop-
as a result of software
topic of the next Sprint; Meeting
ment work carried Out under an
the next instalment will he there!
Esprit project and illustrates well
how skills are passed on through
these projects.
Dr Manuel Domi flaws gave us a
lecture on the management as-
pects of the creation of the data-
base of the Ministry of Agricul-
ture where he is the Director with
responsibility for IT. After the
MINIM
presentation he illustrated the
output. a detailed image hank
which help, field workers to in-
terpret disease development in
Encouraging us to visit museums:
plants and to take appropriate
Dr James Hemsley
remedial measures. It is a pity Dr
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Session 3
Emanuella Giaverra the newly
The session was led off' by Bill
This session which was managed
by Nigel Oxbrow of THU pro-
Black from UMIST of Manches-
appointed Director of EBLIDA
duced what was probably the
ter UK who gave us a report on
the European Bureau of Library.
the state of the art of context
major discussion point of the
Information and Documentation
whole conference, the proposal
Associations. described the sta-
analysis as a means of identifying
document content. Bill did not
tus of a proposed EEC directive
from Elsevier to introduce. if the
on Public Lending Right. The
present research is successful, a
try to oversell the concept. some-
proposal would mean that all
means of controlling reading of
thing he said had happened in the
lending would have to he re-
texts. Peter Van Wiechen of El-
past, but was realistic about the
sevier described the work being
corded for the purposes of rec-
prospects which in his view were
good for well structured text.
ompensing authors if required.
done under an Esprit (EEC Spon-
The power of modern computing
Emanuella described the present
sored) project called CITED. The
objective is to create a software
status of the proposal which was
was obviously helping to improve
the yield and slow but steady
package controlled by a -smart
that the European Parliament has
progress could he expected.
card" which would authorise us-
agreed a text which is now under
Bill was followed by Heinz
study by the Commission. She
age of documents. The primary
Priemer of IBM Europe. who
went on to describe the analysis
application is clearly in products
like Adonis. Elsevier's optical
discussed Geographical Informa-
being undertaken by Directorate
disk based collection of journal
General 3 on the whole issue of
tion Systems and their potential.
material. As might he expected
Heinz was also sanguine about
Moral Rights ofcreators of intel-
the progress which he said was
the proposal gave rise to signifi-
lectual works and what propos-
steady but that standards issues
cant reaction from the documen-
als may he in the pipeline to har-
were slowing development de-
tat ion mangers present who
monise the EEC position.
spite the fact that much digital
wanted to know whether they
data existed already and was he-
would he expected to manage
ing augmented rap-
this facility and what effect it
idly. He was of the
would have on journal prices.
opinion that the
Peter Van Wiechen was quite
specialised mar-
open about the policy issues. the
kets, utilities. mili-
publishers wanted to control us-
tary and public
age but he was unwilling to dis-
sector generally
cuss details of how it would he
would grow rap-
implemented.
idly but that other
markets. tourism.
By comparison. the other papers
marketing. general
in the session were nothing like
public might be
as controversial but nonetheless
slow because the
they gave important insights into
standards needed
developments which will un-
to be accepted and
doubtedly have effects on infor-
the anpl icat ion de-
mation Management in the fu-
Sir Charles Chadwyck-i-lealey
veloped.
ture.
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