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1. ACCESSING TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES WORLDWIDESt-Petersburg Conference, Florida, USA01.07.29/01.08.01FUTURE OF INFORMATION ACCESSEUROPEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE PERSPECTIVE Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS • Information access : obstacles and challenges • for information users • for information producers • Some solutions to meet users’need • from the internet technology side • from document formatting techniques • Back to present situation of information access in Europe and worldwide • Conclusion : some avenues to approach a sustainable information access Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

3. SOME OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES forINFORMATION USERS • Incompatibilities of documents versions • Cost of information access • No connection to the internet available or of bad quality • Insufficient computers stock (mainly in developing countries) Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

4. SOME CHALLENGES for PROVIDERS • Offer compatible documents versions or retro-conversion solutions • Make the users aware of the necessity to turn to XML use • Reduce the cost of information access (approach free access solutions in research area) • Propose to host internet sites with a minimum charge • Participate in the NGO actions to have developing countries benefiting from developed countries unused computers Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

5. SOME SOLUTIONS TO MEET USER’S NEED from THE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY SIDE • Intermediation, a framework for the development of the future internet A – Prior to intermediation • A producer • An operator • A kiosk • A final user Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

6. On line service Service IP network Producer (Connectivity) Kiosk User SOME SOLUTIONS TO MEET USER’S NEED from THE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY SIDE - cntd • B - Thanks to intermediation • A symmetry between users and producers • A standard format (HTML, XML) for the data storage • Dedicated systems (internet server, search engines with specific architecture) for the data processing • New service for information aggregation, filtering and formatting Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

7. SOME SOLUTIONS TO MEET USER’S NEED from DOCUMENT FORMATTING TECHNIQUES • XML and the codification of bibliographic information • XML and the bibliographical noticerepresentation (MARC format) • XML and the bibliographical information representation • XML engineering : why to use this standard ? Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

8. BACK TO PRESENT SITUATION OF INFORMATION ACCESS IN EUROPE OR WORLDWIDE • Transport related sites : • ITRD : available from Silverplatter CD-ROM or paying servers as EINS (www2.eins.org) and STN easy (http://stneasy.fiz-karlsruhe.de) • IRTAD, German BAST Institute (www.bast.de/irtad/) : international data on road accidents • ECMT, The European Conference of Ministers of Transport, associated with OECD (www.oecd.org/cem) • INRETS French partners institutional sites => SNCF, RATP and French Ministry of Equipment and Transport (www.equipement.gouv.fr) services such as SETRA, CERTU • EINS server => PASCAL, PSYCINFO, INSPEC (www2.eins.org) Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

9. BACK TO PRESENT SITUATION OF INFORMATION ACCESS IN EUROPE OR WORLDWIDE - cntd • General or scientific oriented sites : • BNF (FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRARY), INRETS partner, with its shared catalogue CCFr (www.bnf.fr) • RLG (RESEARCH LIBRARY GROUP, www.rlg.org) => RLIN base (Research Libraries Information Network) => 160 important research libraries, Americanones such as Columbia University, Harvard, Yale, New York Public Library), Canadian, African, Australianand European ones (England, Scotland, Spain, Wales, Switzerland, France) • OECD (www.oecd.org) • EU site (www.europa.eu.int), • CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics), Library program CERNLIB (important collection in computer sciences => wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/) Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

10. BACK TO PRESENT SITUATION OF INFORMATION ACCESS IN EUROPE OR WORLDWIDE - cntd • Some sites offering free access to full text documents or usually paying data bases : • BNF for its virtual library GALLICA (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) • French university of Lyons for dissertations (“Cyberthèses” programme) • ELSEVIER site for selected journals or data bases (1,200 journals and navigation across 30 million records with links to 10 million journal files (www.ScienceDirect.com) • ISI Web of Science (free temporary access to selected Current Contents (http://sunweb.isinet.com) • CNRS/INIST gateway (Connect Sciences http://connectsciences.inist.fr) for selected data bases or journals as well Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

11. SOME AVENUES TO APPROACH A SUSTAINABLE INFORMATION ACCESS • Enable a greater use of the Internet and the supplying of full text documents, especially in research organizations worldwide • Develop and generalize the information retrieval tools based upon A.I. technology using semantic and natural language approach • Think global, in contemplating larger cooperation between European organizations • ITRDtaking part in knowledge management mainstream under the aegis of EU Transport Research Board • ITRDjoining the OECD project to co-operate with the World Bank for the conception of a global development gateway (D.Symmes/J. Christensen, ITRD operational committee, Paris, October 23rd, 2000) Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01

12. For any further information :INRETS site : http://www.inrets.franne.pretet@inrets.fr Anne Prétet - St-Petersburg Conference 01.07.29 - 01.08.01