Dear Stevan Attached a little report which appeared in today Science section of the Neue Zuercher Zeitung: http://www.nzz.ch/2004/10/20/ft/page-article9XKLV.html about http://www.oai.unizh.ch/symposium/program.html
I am sorry, I couldn't make it. There was a second meeting in Bern on Biodiversity Issues, which has in fact a lot to do with the open access initiative. This meeting though was organized by life science, and not medical science, two branches of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.... Something, which bothers me and doesn't show up in most of the discussion of open access, is the construction of search tools across digital publications (and potentially millions of pages of legacy information). In the end, this will be the real issue, not just reading another publication face to face. What do you think about that? It seems, that the big publishing houses are already thinking about that, and that they developed such facilities. This of course is one of the most important tools, for data mining, extraction, or just finding the right piece of information. It also means, that we look beyond selfarchived pdf documents to searchable documents with some mark up of their logic content included. Any ideas? All the best, and thanks for all your efforts re open access Donat Dr. Donat Agosti Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Institution Email: ago...@amnh.org Web: http://anbase.org CV: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/agosticv_2003.html Dalmaziquai 45 3005 Bern Switzerland +41-31-351 7152