Workshop:
International Workshop on Information Infrastructure
(CODATA)

The manageability of complex information systems for multidisciplinary cooperation and its use in decision support depends on basic methods and techniques that cover application layers like

• access and interoperability
• documentation of information models
• validation procedures and quality control
• financial and legal aspects (including copyright)
• enabling cooperation on information
• archiving
• education

This workshop brings together experts from fields that offer knowledge and techniques for the above mentioned aspects and those who are interested in knowledge transfer of best practice into other disciplines.

CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council of Science, www.codata.org) supports these cross-discipline aspects that are fundamental for open access and for qualified use of reliable data.

The workshop is organized as an adjunct to the International Symposium on "Sustainability in the Information Society" because it is expected that there is a fruitful exchange of interest as already experienced in previous cooperations between CODATA and the "Informatics in Environmental Protection" expert committee of the German Informatics Society.

This Workshop at ETH Zurich is planned to start on Friday, Oct. 12, 11 h and to close on Saturday Oct. 13, 16 h.

Besides presentation and discussion of papers the workshop is intended to collect recommendations for state-of-the-art best practice as well as to provide a research and development perspective for national and international action.

The workshop thus contributes to the fundaments of the Information Society.

For further information and submission of abstracts contact the workshop convener:

Horst Kremers, Berlin
P.O. Box 20 05 48
D- 13515 Berlin, Germany
FON/FAX +49 30 3728587