Conference on the History of Science Information Systems

这项建议要求提供支持，使美国和国际学者和研究生能够参加科学史信息系统会议，并扩大会议讨论的传播和影响。科学史是一个久负盛名的学术领域，但研究科学信息系统的演化是一个相对较新的话题，随着信息革命的展开，其重要性迅速增加。这次会议是第一次专门讨论科学信息系统的历史和遗产的大规模活动。它建立在两个具有里程碑意义的会议的基础上，并扩展了这两个会议。第一次是英国皇家学会1948年在伦敦召开的科学信息会议，第二次是1958年由国家科学基金会主办的国际科学信息会议。本次活动将在美国信息科学学会(ASIS)年会之前并与之同时举行。

This proposal request support to enable American and International scholars and graduate students to participate in the Conference on the History of Science Information Systems, as well as to broaden the dissemination and impact of the conference discussions. The history of science is a well established scholarly field, but study of the evolution of scientific information systems is a relatively new topic, rapidly gaining in importance as the information revolution unfolds. This conference is the first event of significant scale solely devoted to the history and heritage of science information systems. It builds on and extends two landmark conferences. The first of these is the Scientific Information Conference convened by the Royal Society in London in 1948, and the second, the 1958 International Conference on Science Information, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The present event is to be held immmediately preceding and in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS).