At 6:07 PM -0000 6/25/97, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> The First International Workshop on
>
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> Cooperative Research Information Systems in Physics:
> CRISP97
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> Aug. 31 - Sept. 4, 1997, Oldenburg, Germany
>
> Sponsored and supported by:
> - The European Physical Society (EPS)
> - Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
> - Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Wissenschaft,
> Forschung und Technologie (BMBF)
>
>Scope of the workshop:
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> The purpose of the workshop is to bring together physicists,
> computer scientists, and other experts to discuss issues
> related to cooperative scientific information systems.
> Internet and electronic communication methods have greatly
> affected the way scienceis published and distributed, and
> the importance of these issues will increase in the future.
> It is therefore very important for the scientists, publishers,
> and computer experts to meet and map their needs and discuss
> the directions for the future development of electronic
> communication in sciences.
One issue that immediately comes to mind, most pertinent in the areas of
science, but in other areas as well, are questions of validity. Is there
any way to verify that a webpage contains scientific accuracy, or not?
Couldn't a mischievous physics student, say, make a page claiming that
matter can go faster than the speed of light if you wrap it up in tinfoil
first (or a less obvious lie)?
In other words, is their any way to have a page that claims (in its
metadata, for example) that it is a factual paper about HAARP (you know,
that weird high-frequency radio transmitter in Alaska that will be used by
the FBI and CIA in a giant conspiracy to affect weather patterns in the
mid-west) when in fact it the paper is nothing more than a paranoid ranting
(conviently summarized in the preceding parentheses)?
Most articles instructing people on getting information off the web that
they shouldn't trust what they read because anyone can go online and
publish just about anything. Is there any way or should there be any way
to ensure that a document really *is* what it says it is.
I suppose this goes in the same category as boring websites that put "sex,
free, hot, fun, great, warez" as keywords just to get more people to their
site.
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