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“Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.”  To carry out its diverse responsibilities, NCBI, among other things:  * fosters scientific communication by sponsoring meetings, workshops, and lecture series  * develops, distributes, supports, and coordinates access to a variety of databases and software for the scientific and medical communities  * develops and promotes standards for databases, data deposition and exchange, and biological nomenclature - Hilmar Lapp

The mission of the Board on Research Data and Information isto improve the stewardship, policy, and use of digital data andinformation for science and the broader society. The Office of International Scientific and Technical Information Programs (ISTIP) does not seem to exist any longer. - Hilmar Lapp

Developed by the NSF's Ocean Sciences Division - Hilmar Lapp

“The International Council for Science (ICSU) is a non-governmental organization representing a global membership that includes both national scientific bodies (107 members) and international scientific unions (29 members).”  * Funds World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and CODATA * Maintaining and Advancing the CF Standard for Earth System Science Community Data, by Bryan Lawrence: Maintaining and Advancing the CF Standard for Earth System Science Community Data * Climate & Forecast (CF): “Scientific Data and Information”, A report of the (ICSU) CSPR (Committee on Scientific Planning and Review) Assessment Panel, December 2004 - Hilmar Lapp

“offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information.”  Current Projects:  *Physics Project: This project aims to establish a unified finding list of terms used in physics and to mount it on the ICSTI Web site, with pointers to equivalent classification codes in the main classification schemes currently used, which are available free of charge on the Web. *Legal Aspects of Information Transfer: As an ongoing activity, ICSTI monitors current legal issues of importance for its members and provides a forum for exchange of information and ideas. - Hilmar Lapp

Do you have the book, or read it yet? I am considering buying it but have found the Beautiful Code book (same concept, I suppose) less useful than I had hoped. - Hilmar Lapp

I am extremely jealous actually. I'm assuming my copy is sitting on my desk at work - which I won't get to until Monday and everyone else has had their copy for weeks! Many of the chapters are also available online under CC-BY but if you want to get the whole lot I would obviously recommend the book in either physical or online form. None of the authors are getting payments BTW all of... more... - Cameron Neylon

paulo DOT nuin AT gmail DOT com, thanks a lot - pn

Sorry, I haven't tried Google for this article, lazy Sunday. I got a couple of links from different sites to the paper but never checked Google. - pn