Agenda:
Friday, October 2:
9.00: Registration and coffee/tea
9.30: Welcome by Walter Niedermayer
9.45: Introduction to the Meeting. Reflections on the objectives of the EuroCRIS Platform by Mr Jostein Helland Hauge, Secretary of EuroCRIS (Power Point Presentation)
10.00: Denmark’s Electronic Library. Introduction by Søren Hovmand (Power Point Presentation). Discussion.
10.30: Relations between institutional and national current research information systems. The case of the Netherlands by Marga van Meel
11.00 Break
11.15 The dream of ELECTRA (ELECTronic Research Assistant) by Jostein Helland Hauge
11.45: The Code of Good (CRIS) Practice. Quo vadis? Introduction by Eric Canterella. Discussion.
12.15: CRIS in the USA by Huntington Williams
12.45: What do we want to achieve by the CRIS 2000 Conference in Helsinki? Introduction by Sinikka Koskiala.
13.00: Lunch
14.00: The Icelandic CRIS database. Presentation by Thorvaldur Finnbjörnsson. Power Point Presentation.
14.30: Is there a need for separate actions to stimulate CRIS co-operation with the Central and Eastern European Countries? Exchange of information on current initiatives. Discussion
15.00: Our legal context: Discussion of ownership and copyright legislation / regulations in relation to the CRIS work area. Norway (Power Point Presentation) and France (Power Point Presentation).
16.00: Closing of day 1
18.15: Bus from the library building first to the Vienna Prater and then to a dinner at Schloß Cobenzl.
Saturday, October 3:
9.00: The new Austrian CRIS database by Franz Holzer
9.30: CRIS as a source for tracking science publication patterns by Fulvio Naldi (Power Point Presentation)
10.00: Can we seriously hold the view that a CRIS is a mediation tool in its own right for users of research and research results? by Franz Holzer. Discussion of mediation and marketing strategies.
10.30: Break
11.00: Reports on new developments in the CRIS field in member states. Short contributions by Platform participants.
12.00: Round table on the relevance and future activities of the EuroCRIS Platform (Proposal for an Electronic Journal on CRIS by Fulvio Naldis Power Point Presentation). Offers from members to run the Secretariat of EuroCRIS.
13.30: Closing of the Vienna Platform Meeting
