1998 NSF Information and Data Management Program Workshop: Research Agenda for the 21st Century

1998年3月29日至31日在华盛顿举行的美国国家科学基金会信息和数据管理计划研讨会，其目的是将目前由美国国家科学基金会信息和数据管理计划（IDM）资助的研究人员，以及选定的行业和政府邀请者聚集在一起，以便合作：(1)确定在数据和信息综合管理方面取得进展的根本问题；(2)明确可能取得重大突破的领域；(3)确定应对当前和未来挑战所需的研究基础设施。本次研讨会旨在促进来自不同社区的研究人员之间的交流和未来的合作，包括数据库研究、信息检索、多模式信息管理和分布式（网络或无线）异构（通过大容量存储的掌上电脑）系统。此外，研讨会提供了一个机会来检查当前的研究工作，并了解更多关于由IDM计划资助的研究人员的成功。讲习班会议记录将包括关于1997财政年度内由工发组织资助的所有项目的报告。讲习班的研究结果将在一份报告中提出，该报告将有助于制订信息和数据管理方面的未来研究方向，并将建议学术界和工业界有希望的研究方式，以期促进创新和技术转让。讲习班的材料将以硬拷贝和电子形式在工发组织网站上广泛散发，以便向广大读者介绍工发组织方案的成功和今后的研究方向。

The NSF Information and Data Management Program Workshop, held in Washington, D.C. on March 29-31, 1998, has the objective to bring together the researchers currently funded by the Information and Data Management Program (IDM) of the National Science Foundation, along with selected industry and government invitees in order to cooperatively (1) identify the problems that are fundamental in making progress towards the integrated management of data and information; (2) specify areas where major breakthroughs appear possible; and (3) identify research infrastructures needed to meet current and future challenges. This workshop aims at enabling communication and future collaboration among researchers from the different communities involved in the IDM, including database research, information retrieval, multi-modal information management, and distributed (networked or wireless) heterogeneous (palmtop through mass storage) systems. Further, the workshop provides an opportunity to examine the current research efforts and to learn more about successes of the researchers funded by the IDM program. The workshop proceedings will include reports on all projects funded by IDM during the fiscal year 1997. The findings of the workshop will be presented in a report that will help in formulating future directions of research in information and data management and will suggest promising modalities of research in academia and industry with an aim to foster innovation as well as technology transfer. The workshop material will be widely disseminated in both hard copy and electronic form on the IDM Web site, in order to inform wide audience about the IDM program successes and future research directions.