The series Data and Knowledge in a Changing World covers the quality and accessability of quantitative and qualitative data, classical and ground-breaking methods by which numeric and symbolic data are acquired, analyzed, and managed. The current volume is devoted to the impact of Internet and WWW communication of data.
Part 1 Emergence of an information society - facts and challenges:
information highways - Internet and Web services; obstacles to a free or fair
circulation of scientific data; distributed data and information networks.
Part 2 Worldwide and regional information systems, policies and programs:
UNESCO policy, worldwide networks, regional exchange equity; numerical,
textual and image databases; case study - worldwide bioinformatics
distributed databases.
