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The French National Institutefor Transport and Safety Research

ACCESSING TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES WORLDWIDE

St-Petersburg Conference, Florida, USA01.07.29/01.08.01

FUTURE OF INFORMATION ACCESS

EUROPEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE PERSPECTIVE


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Information access : obstacles and challenges for information users for information producers

Some solutions to meet users’need from the internet technology side from document formatting techniques

Back to present situation of information access in Europe and worldwide

Conclusion : some avenues to approach a sustainable information access


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SOME OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES for INFORMATION USERS

Incompatibilities of documents versions

Cost of information access

No connection to the internet available or of bad quality

Insufficient computers stock (mainly in developing countries)


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SOME CHALLENGES for PROVIDERS

Offer compatible documents versions or retro-conversion solutions

Make the users aware of the necessity to turn to XML use

Reduce the cost of information access (approach free access solutions in research area)

Propose to host internet sites with a minimum charge

Participate in the NGO actions to have developing countries benefiting from developed countries unused computers


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SOME SOLUTIONS TO MEET USER’S NEED

from THE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY SIDE

Intermediation, a framework for the development of the future internet

A – Prior to intermediation A producer An operator A kiosk A final user

User Information producer

On line services

Service Kiosk


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SOME SOLUTIONS TO MEET USER’S NEED

from THE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY SIDE - cntd

B - Thanks to intermediation A symmetry between users and producers A standard format (HTML, XML) for the data storage Dedicated systems (internet server, search engines with specific architecture)

for the data processing New service for information aggregation, filtering and formatting

User

Producer

On line service

Kiosk

IP network

(Connectivity)

Service


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SOME SOLUTIONS TO MEET USER’S NEED from DOCUMENT FORMATTING TECHNIQUES

XML and the codification of bibliographic information

XML and the bibliographical notice representation (MARC format)

XML and the bibliographical information representation

XML engineering : why to use this standard ?


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BACK TO PRESENT SITUATION OF INFORMATION ACCESS

IN EUROPE OR WORLDWIDE

TransportTransport related sites :

ITRD : available from Silverplatter CD-ROM or paying servers as EINS (www2.eins.org) and STN easy (http://stneasy.fiz-karlsruhe.de)

IRTAD, German BAST Institute (www.bast.de/irtad/) : international data on road accidents

ECMT, The European Conference of Ministers of Transport, associated with OECD (www.oecd.org/cem)

INRETS French partners institutional sites => SNCF, RATP and French Ministry of Equipment and Transport

(www.equipement.gouv.fr) services such as SETRA, CERTU EINS server => PASCAL, PSYCINFO, INSPEC (www2.eins.org)


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IN EUROPE OR WORLDWIDE - cntd

General or scientific orientedGeneral or scientific oriented sites :

BNF (FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRARY), INRETS partner, with its shared catalogue CCFr (www.bnf.fr)

RLG (RESEARCH LIBRARY GROUP, www.rlg.org) => RLIN base (Research Libraries Information Network) => 160 important research libraries, American ones such as Columbia University, Harvard, Yale, New York Public Library), Canadian, African, Australian and European ones (England, Scotland, Spain, Wales, Switzerland, France)

OECD (www.oecd.org) EU site (www.europa.eu.int), CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics), Library program CERNLIB (important

collection in computer sciences => wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/)


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IN EUROPE OR WORLDWIDE - cntd

Some sites offering free access to full text documents or usually paying data bases :

BNF for its virtual library GALLICA (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) French university of Lyons for dissertations (“Cyberthèses” programme) ELSEVIER site for selected journals or data bases (1,200 journals and navigation across

30 million records with links to 10 million journal files (www.ScienceDirect.com) ISI Web of Science (free temporary access to selected Current Contents

(http://sunweb.isinet.com) CNRS/INIST gateway (Connect Sciences http://connectsciences.inist.fr) for selected data

bases or journals as well


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SOME AVENUES TO APPROACH A SUSTAINABLE INFORMATION ACCESS

Enable a greater use of the Internet and the supplying of full text documents, especially in research organizations worldwide

Develop and generalize the information retrieval tools based upon A.I. technology using semantic and natural language approach

Think global, in contemplating larger cooperation between European organizations ITRD taking part in knowledge management mainstream under the aegis of EU Transport Research Board ITRD joining the OECD project to co-operate with the World Bank for the conception of a global

development gateway (D.Symmes/J. Christensen, ITRD operational committee, Paris, October 23rd, 2000)


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For any further information :

INRETS site : http://www.inrets.fr

[email protected]

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