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Interuniversity Communications Council (ENCOM), the Fall, 1972 Conference of Errom Focused On DOCUMENT RESUME EE 073 696 EM 010 883 TITLE Networks and Eisciplines; Proceedings of the ECUCCM Fall Conference (Ann Arbor, Michican, October 11-131 1972), INSTITulioN Interuniversity Communications Council (ENCOM), Princeton, N, J. PU CATE 73 tCTE 204p, AVAIIABLE PROMEDUCOM, P. 0. BOA 364, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 ($5.00 members, $6,00 nonmembers) EC1S PRICE MF-$0,65 HC-$9,87 DESCRIPTORS *Computers; Computer Science; *Conference Reports; Data Eases; Higher Education; *Information Networks; Interagency Cooperation: #Interinstitutional Cooperation; *Networks IDENTIFIERS EDUCCM AESITACT The Fall, 1972 conference of ERrOM focused on problems, potentials, and current activities related to the development of interinstitutional cooperation through computer networking, In these proceedings, a number of representative networking attempts were presented, discipline-oriented workshops discussed possibilities in a number of different fields, more general findings about networking progress were reported, the impact of networking was discussed, and panel discussions attempted to provide an overview. (PH) etworks and Disciplines 1973 EDUCOM Int runiversity Communications Council, Inc.. oNetworksand Disciplines PROCEEDINGS of the EDUCOM FALL CONFERENCE October 11, 12, 13, 197& Ann Arbor, Michigan EDUCOM The Inter-universityCommunications Council, Inc, S upAriiMENI OF 1:1)w:A fiONe* vvfIF AFFE OfFir( OFfiiit;AFIFA : ON) i) HOM ()FM; :r4 t1!Vri %: OVA Aiiii !"I-9 '41 Hrh"titil c)! rno Afy,tr, v(11 C_o rd. rands VC 01)A E4I' (11-u,ANizArioN5 oqpAtNi, oNflL; i ENiEN!,,4 OTRUF) LIFDiFOTA)N FuPTHEp,RIrviODLACTkir"., (101tri,DF sVOLV RE.C1Flik 7.MNP4 be obtained Further information andadditional copies of this book may The price front EDUCOM, P.O. Box 364,Princeton, New Jersey 08540. per copy is S5.00for members and $6.00 tononmembers o':EDUCOM. ©1973 EDUCOM, The Interuniversity CommunicationsCouncil, Inc, Printed in the United States of America table ofcontents FOREWORD .ey ..... 3: . INTRODUCTION Thoinan Krt/ ... .. ...... £..3 ...... } I. NETWORKING ACTIVITIES IN THEDISCIPLINES NETWORKS ANI) DISCIPLINES: A POINT OF VIEW Thomas- Kurtz . ,. NETWORKING AND CHEMISTRY Peter Lykos . ..... .. 12 TIIE Co/NCoReL STUDY Walter A. Sedelow. J . , ... 20 NETWORKS IN ECONOMICS Safford Berg . -4 . ,,--t44- ... TE5F:i ... LIBRARY NETWORKS Frederick Kilgour .. 38 NM-WORKS FOR MUSEUMS AND RELATEDDISCIPLINES Robert Chenhall ... .. 42 MICROSECONDS AND MULTI=MONTHS: TURNAROUND TIME IN SOCIAL RESEARCH Janie Davis 49 II. DISCIPLINE ORIENTED WORKSHOPS MUSEUMS AND RELATED DISCIPLINES Chairman Robert Chenhall in COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN CHEMISTY Chairman Harris Shull 59 NETWORKS FOR LANGUAGES AND THEHUMANITIES Cochairmen Sally Yeates Sedelow and Walter A, Sedelovi.-Ir. 61 iii COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN ECCECONOMICS Chairman George Sadowsky 66 LIBRARY NETWORKS Chairman Frederick Kilgour ..... z............ 71 NETWORKS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Chairman Richard I_ HoiTerberi III. NETWORK DEVELOPMENTS AND DATA BASES CURRENT TRENDS IN MACHINE-READABLE DATA BASES K. Leon Montgomery 81 NSF NETWORK INITIATIVE D. Don Aufenkamp . 88 AN OVERVIEW OF THE MERIT COMPUTER NETWORK Bertram Herzog 0 0. SCIENCE INFORMATION IN A CHANGING WORLD Edward Weiss .. .. ...... IV. IMPACT OF NETWORKING: BANQUET ADDRESS AND WORKSHOPS SOCIAL INFORMATION. THE TECHNOLOGY, THE NEED AND THE CHALLENGE . Edwin B. Parker .. .. .. 103 PAYING FOR EXCHANGED RESOURCES Chairman Bertram Herzog, 111 THE MERIT COMPUTER NETWORK lROM THE USER'S POINT OF VIEW Chairman Eric Aupperle . ...... I 16 ASSISTANCE FOR FACULTY USERS: DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER-RELATED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Chairman Karl Zinn ...... ..... .. .. 175 ASSISTANCE FOR. FACULTY USERS: EXCHANGE OF INSTRUCTION-RELATED COMPUTER. PROGRAMS Chairman Karl Zinn .. .. 134 CONTRACTING FOR COMPUTER RESOURCES Chairman Harry Rowell .... .... ........ 139 V. MAJOR ISSUES ANDCONCLUSIONS: PANEL DISCUSSIONS CONINION TI IFNI ES AND CONSENSUS. REPORT Al) DISCUSSION OFW/MKSIIOPS Nloderaior NEn-titi Greenberger = 143 NETWORKS AND COMPUTERCENTERS: COOPERATION OR CONFLICI? Panel CIUMM.111 Ger:ird Weer I SO SUPPLEMENTS Unntorence Participants . .. ... .... ... 185 Appendix A 200 Appendix B '0' Appendix C Ios foreword The development of interinstitutionalcooperation throng!) computer networking has 101112, beenagoal of EDUCOM. With thetot:1111010p, available today, thosepurposes and goals for EDUCOM whichwere outline(' in the book, EnUisik.-T, in 1967are capable of being achieved, Progress toward their achievement isbeing made and the fruits of real cooperiition appeiir attainableonce organizittionid and polittc,d barriers can be overcome, The Fall 1972 Council Meetingand Conference. the fifth inseries or conferences focusingon computer networkingfor higher education, evidenced a striking consensusamong computer Users in higher education that the technology for computer networkingis in hand. Representatives of various disciplines includingchemistry, economics and social sciences cited many specific examples ofapplications of computingin their disciplines which were availableto be shared, expressed confidence that the technology which would permitsharing was also available and described a few cases in which sharingwas already taking place, The obstacles which most speakers foresawto widespread sharing of computer resources inalldisciplines were primarily organizational, politicaland economic. Over 250 persons attended the three-dayconference which was held atthe Chrysler Center for Continuing EngineeringEducation on the campus of the University of Michiganin Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Michigan Interuniversity Committeeon Information Systems (MICIS), which has sponsored the developmentof the MERIT network, actedas host for the meeting, The conference followedthe format developed in recent EDUCOM meetings of plenary sessionsalternating with small group discussions. The major speech atthe banquet heldin conjunction with the conference provided a change ofpace for conferees, Dr. Edwin H. Parker, Professor of Communications at StanfordUniversity, spoke on "Social Information: The Technology, The Needand the Challenge," He outlined his view of the possible and the probablefutures for cable television, especially as related to higher education andchallenged organizations like EDUCOM to help make possible the levelof expenditure which will be necessary to move our society to the kind of educationsystem which can be provided by means of cable television. Panel presentations and speeches -givenduring the conference have been edited by the speakers andare collected in the following pages. Summaries of the group discussionswere drafted by a recorder in each group and have been edited for publication by thegroup chairman. 1 Ftn11101infOrlilir 71 concerningany of thesystems orsuggesiions describod by speakers can best he obtained by writing directly tothe author of thepresentation. Names ',Indaddressos or allconference' partHpants aro listed in Mc back ol this volume.. Many thanks arc duo to the Program Chairman: Tom Kurtz, andthe menthers or his proQram committee for the excellent programwhich they developed. A great deal of credit for the success of the conk re nce is a lso duo to each participant in the plenary sessicins and the workshops. introduction As the higher education community moves towarda posture of closer eooperation many discipline groups iogical !etwo/&,y have come into heine_ The EDUCON-1 1972 Fall Council Meeting presentedas examples several of these interinstitutionalgroups. Itis asserted that such groups, :icting in concert. c:in justify some sort of 11.01Work litilitV0)11110eting nOt only the institutions they represent but also most of the othersas well: The conference %va rganized about several panel presentationson currentnetworkingactivitiesinsixdisciplinaryareasand onthe ti1:110-01.-111C-311innetworking and data bases. These presentationsare colleeted in the following pages: Peter Lyl-os outlines specificexamples of the use of networks inchemistry:a luge data batik with complex molecular structures.accessedbyremoteterminals,witha three- dimensionalimagecapability a collectionof programscarefully constructed for general use permitting quanium/chemicalcalculations from remote terminals backed up by lint phone counseling:and a small college remote job entry station with graphicsaugmentation accessing a large-scale computer. Walter Sedelow: discussing networkingactivitieF, related to languages and humanities. describes the Ce/NcoReLStady. He concentrates on some of the conclusions emerging from the exploration of a very wide range of types of language research which might be involved in networking. Some of the current independent networking effortswhich are underway to serve the approximately 40:000 professional economists in the United States are outlined by Sanford Berg. Most Of these activities are presently based in a variety of scientific societies: research institutes, tiovernment agencies and universities. Dr: Berg notes especially thc lack of coordinating mechanisms for the independent efforts. FrederickKilgour desciihes various online computer applications for libraries:MEDLINE. a remote subject retrieval system based at the National Library of Medicine; Basis-70 operated by the Battelle Memorial Institute: and internallibrary online applications for acquisitions, cataloging and circulationat the New England Library Information Network, Stanford University, TheOhio State University, and the Ohio College Library Center. Theuses of computing in museums and
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