The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 Conference

Published for the American Society of Information Science and Technology and the Chemical Heritage Foundation by InfoToday. Contents: Scientific and technological information systems in their many contexts / W. Boyd Rayward. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. What is information theory a theory of? Boundary work among information theorists and information scientists in the United States and Great Britain during the Cold War / Ronald R. Kline The science of the unknowable: Stafford Beer's cybernetic informatics / Andrew Pickering Histories, heritages, and the past: The case of Emanuel Goldberg / Michael K. Buckland Reprogramming the Hippocratic oath: a historical examination of early medical informatics and privacy / Jeffrey R. Yost. Organizing and Managing Information. The material culture of scientific and technical information systems in the United States: patent models to computers / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell "A veritable bucket of facts": origins of the data base management system, 1960-1980 / Thomas Haigh The technical report and its impact on post-World War II information systems: two case studies / Jana Varlejs Abstracts and indexes to branded full text: what's in a name? / Eunice M. Roe Medical science and medical informatics: the Visible Human Project, 1986-2000 / Simon Baatz Remembering and forgetting: exploring the role of the record in the conduct of scientific research / Kalpana Shankar Predecessors of scientific indexing structures in the domain of religion / Bella Hass Weinberg. Chemical Informatics. Introduction of computers in chemical structure information systems, or what is not recorded in the annals / Michael F. Lynch Chemical complexity and molecular topology: the DARC concepts and applications / Jacques-Emile Dubois Learning the lessons of the past / Robert Fugmann Indexing and index editing at Chemical Abstracts before the registry system / Charles H. Davis Exploring the evolutionary relationship between computers and mass spectrometry / Michael A. Grayson The entrance of informatics into combinatorial chemistry / Richard Pommier Swanson. National developments in information systems and services. Implications of nationalism in the development of the scientific information infrastructure in North America in the decades leading up to World War II / Bertrum H. MacDonald The genesis of NASA RECON / William Mitchell Weaving webs of significance: the classification research study group in the United States and Canada / Kathryn La Barre Red information science: J.D. Bernal and the nationalization of scientific information in Britain from 1930 to 1949 / Dave Muddiman Information science as a facet of the history of British science: the origins of the Classification Research Group / Alexander Justice Technical libraries in British industrial and commercial enterprises before 1950 / Alistair Black Indexes at the Government Code and Cipher School, Bletchley Park, 1940-1945 Finnish information services for technology during the first half of the Twentieth Century / Ilkka Makinen Libraries and documentation in Germany: a long-lasting conflict / Marlies Ockenfield and Hansjoachim Samulowitz Erich Pietsch: international connections of a German pioneer in information science / Thomas Hapke Comparison of the coverage of patents in Beilstein's Handbook of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Abstracts before, during, and after World War II / Helen Schofield Drops in the ocean: the development of scientific and technological information services in Australia / Michael Middleton. Developments in international information systems and services. Recent developments in electronic access to the data of science / Brian Vickery Intergovernmental cooperation for mission-oriented information systems: a memoir / John E. Woolston The FAO and the building of national agricultural information and documentation systems from 1966 to 1988 / Michel J. Menou L'Homme qui voulait classer le monde (The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World), a film by Francoise Levie / W. Boyd Rayward