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

NSF信息和数据管理计划研讨会于1998年3月29-31日在华盛顿特区举行，目的是将目前由国家科学基金会信息和数据管理计划(IDM)资助的研究人员与选定的行业和政府受邀者聚集在一起，以便(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)确定可能出现重大突破的领域；以及(3)确定应对当前和未来挑战所需的研究基础设施。这次讲习班的目的是促进参与国际数据管理的不同社区的研究人员之间的交流和今后的协作，包括数据库研究、信息检索、多模式信息管理和分布式(联网或无线)异质(掌上电脑通过大容量存储)系统。此外，研讨会还提供了一个机会，以检查当前的研究工作，并更多地了解由IDM计划资助的研究人员的成功。讲习班的会议记录将包括关于1997年财政年度由国际开发署资助的所有项目的报告。讲习班的结论将在一份报告中提出，该报告将有助于制定今后在信息和数据管理方面的研究方向，并将提出学术界和工业界有希望的研究模式，目的是促进创新和技术转让。讲习班材料将在国际数据管理网站上以硬拷贝和电子形式广泛传播，以便让广大受众了解国际数据管理方案的成功情况和今后的研究方向。

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.