Background Information and Readings

• 1999 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop, IDM99  
  March 7-9, 1999, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
  NSF IDM'99 Proceedings, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Wesley W. Chu and Edward A. Fox, editors.
  
• 1998 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop, IDM98
  March 29-31, 1998, Washington D.C.
  NSF IDM98 Proceedings, Judith Klavans and Panos Chrysanthis, editors.
  
• Peter Buneman, David Maier, and Jennifer Widom, "Where was your data yesterday, and where will it go tomorrow?  Data Annotation and Provenance for Scientific Applications", A white paper, Feb. 2000. Available at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~peter/dapsa.pdf (in pdf format) and http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~peter/dapsa.ps.gz (gzip-compressed postscript format).
  
• Brodie, Michael L.,  The B2B E-commerce Revolution: Convergence, Chaos, and Holistic
  Computing, a chapter in Information System Engineering: State of the Art and
  Research Themes, S. Brinkkemper, E. Lindencrona, and A. Sølvberg
  (eds.), Springer-Verlag Ltd., London. June 2000. NSF IDM 2000 presentation slides at B2BSlides (in pdf).
  
• IDM/DBES and IIS/IRIS Workshop Reports
  
• The KDI/KN Workshop Reports
  
• Additional "infrastructure" items that require pre-workshop preparation: See the current IIS and IDM Web Pages at
  • http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm_home.html
  • http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/
    
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) Interim Report to the President, August 1998. http://www.hpcc.gov/ac/interim/
  
• Computing Research: Driving Information Technology and the Information Industry Forward. Computing Research Association. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra
  
• NSF Planning Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments: Digital Libraries. http://www.si.umich.edu/SantaFe
  
• NSF Workshop on Human-Centered Systems: Information, Interactivity, and Intelligence.
  February 17-19, 1997, Arlington, VA
  Human-centered information systems are a "motto" for our division
  
• J. Gray. Database Systems: A Textbook Case of Research Paying Off.
  http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra/database.html
  
• P. Bernstein, M. Brodie, S. Ceri, et. al, The Asilomar Report on Database Research, August 1998 Also available in: Postscript and PDF
  
• A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker and J. D. Ullman
  Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities Into the 21st Century.
  Report of the Lagunita II NSF Workshop on the Future of Database Systems Research, May 1995.
  http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/issues/9603/lagunita.ps
  
• A. Silberschatz and S. Zdonik.
  Database Systems -- Breaking out of the Box.
  Report of the CRA/NSF Sponsored Workshop on Stategic Directions in Computing Database Management Systems Working Group. October 1996.
  http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/issues/9709/stratdir.ps
  
• H. Schorr and S. Salvatore.
  "Towards the Digital Government of the 21st Century", report prepared from the Workshop on Research and Development Opportunities in Federal Information Services http://www.isi.edu/nsf
  
• The CRA Workshop at MIT.
  
• Lagunita Reports:
  • 1990: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~hector/lagi.ps
  • 1995: http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/papers/lagii.ps
    
• Funding a Revolution, Government Support for Computer Research, National Academy Press, 1999, p. 20 (Fig. 1.1). (On the Web at http://www.cstb.org ,  direct URL http://bob.nap.edu/html/far/ch1_f1.html). 

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