Background Resources

• NSF/CISE Experimental Activities Program
• Al Gore, The Digital Earth: Understanding Our Planet in the 21st Century,
  Jan. 31, 1998
• Computing Research: Driving Information Technology  and the Information Industry Forward. Computing Research Association. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra)
• J. Gray. Database Systems: A Textbook Case of Research Paying Off.
• Lagunita NSF Workshops:
• 1990: NSF Invitational Workshop on the Future of Database Systems Research held in Palo Alto, California, February 22-23, 1990, entitled "DATABASE SYSTEMS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES"
  Report: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~hector/lagi.ps
• 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.cise.nsf.gov/iis/db21.html)
  Reports: http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/papers/lagii.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.
• 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
• NSF Planning Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments: Digital Libraries
• 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)
• The CRA Workshop at MIT.
• IDM/DBES and IIS/IRIS Workshop Reports
• The KDI/KN Workshop Reports
• Workshop On Distributed Heterogeneous Knowledge Networks           
• Workshop On Knowledge Networking Processes
• Human Dimensions of Knowledge Networking: Access, Usability, Impact
• Standards for the Interchange of Digital Information (http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/standards.html)
• Digital Preservation (http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/preserve.html)
• 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/
• Teaming with Life: Investing in Science to Understand and Use America's Living Capital