Universal Publications Database - based on Australian work

[Tom Worthington]

Media release <URL:http://www.acs.org.au/news/global.htm> "Computer
Societies Agree on International Cooperation - 24 November 1996, Cambridge
UK - The world's leading computer societies have agreed to investigate ways
of making their publications and research outcomes globally accessible..."

What it doesn't say in the media release is that I showed Australian work 
<URL:http://www.acs.org.au/president/1996/epubs/welcome.html#cite2n> at the
meeting. As a result I got "volunteered" to write the white paper on
"Universal Publications Database" by the end of April, with Roger Johnson
(CEPIS), Bernard Rous (ACM) and Joe DeBlasi (ACM).

This would be an index to all published material from participating computer
societies around the world. What I had in mind was to use the approach
developed for government material
<URL:http://www.adfa.oz.au/DOD/imsc/imsctg/workshop/>. Suggestions comments
and assistance welcome.


Tom Worthington <tomw@acslink.net.au> President, Australian Computer
Society, GPO Box 446, Canberra ACT 2601 http://www.acslink.net.au/~tomw,
Fax: +61 6 2496419
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In UK 12-27 Nov. Phone: 0374 171238 International: +44 374 171238
"IS Radical Change" 3-4 Dec: <URL:http://www.acs.org.au/nsw/events/conf1996/>
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ps: "Cambridge live from a Double Decker Bus":
http://www.acs.org.au/president/1996/epubs/uk.htm