History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems

Past Presidents of ASIS&T

Roger K Summit
Summit was called "father of online systems" by Saul Herner. Lilley-Trice consider him a valuable contributor to the creation, management and expansion of DIALOG. According to Bellardo and Bourne, Summit was a major figure in the online retrieval industry. Summit foresaw the need/desire to give the public access to online systems. He realized that this could become a business (Bellardo & Bourne). He was the designer and product manager for the DIALOG online information retrieval system at its inception in the early 1960's and continued successively as Manager, President and CEO until his retirement in 1991.

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

W. Boyd Rayward and Mary Ellen Bowden, Editors

ASIS&T Monograph Series. Published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Chemical Heritage Foundation by Information Today, Inc., Medford, New Jersey, 2004.

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Contents

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i		Front Matter (title pages, copyright page, dedication, table of contents, acknowledgements, contributors)
1		Scientific and Technological Information Systems in Their Many Contexts W. Boyd Rayward

		INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
15		What Is Information Theory a Theory Of? Boundary Work among Information Theorists and Information Scientists in the United States and Britain during the Cold War Ronald R. Kline
29		The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Informatics Andrew Pickering
39		Histories, Heritages, and the Past: The Case of Emanuel Goldberg Michael K. Buckland
46		Reprogramming the Hippocratic Oath: A Historical Examination of Early Medical Informatics and Privacy Jeffrey R. Yost

		ORGANIZING AND MANAGING INFORMATION
59		The Material Culture of Scientific and Technical Information Systems in the United States: Patent Models to Computers Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
73		“A Veritable Bucket of Facts”: Origins of the Data Base Management System, 1960–1980 Thomas Haigh
89		The Technical Report and Its Impact on Post–World War II Information Systems: Two Case Studies Jana Varlejs
100		Abstracts and Indexes to Branded Full Text: What’s in a Name? Eunice M. Roe
110		Medical Science and Medical Informatics: The Visible Human Project, 1986–2000 Simon Baatz
118		Remembering and Forgetting: Exploring the Role of the Record in the Conduct of Scientific Research Kalpana Shankar
126		Predecessors of Scientific Indexing Structures in the Domain of Religion Bella Hass Weinberg

		CHEMICAL INFORMATICS
137		Introduction of Computers in Chemical Structure Information Systems, or What Is Not Recorded in the Annals Michael F. Lynch
149		Chemical Complexity and Molecular Topology: The DARC Concepts and Applications Jacques-Emile Dubois
168		Learning the Lessons of the Past Robert Fugmann
182		Indexing and Index Editing at Chemical Abstracts before the Registry System Charles H. Davis
190		Exploring the Evolutionary Relationship between Computers and Mass Spectrometry Michael A. Grayson
203		The Entrance of Informatics into Combinatorial Chemistry Richard Pommier Swanson

		NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES
215		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
228		The Genesis of NASA RECON William Mitchell
246		Weaving Webs of Significance: The Classification Research Study Group in the United States and Canada Kathryn La Barre
258		Red Information Science: J. D. Bernal and the Nationalization of Scientific Information in Britain from 1930 to 1949 Dave Muddiman
267		Information Science as a Facet of the History of British Science: The Origins of the Classification Research Group Alexander Justice
281		Technical Libraries in British Industrial and Commercial Enterprises before 1950 Alistair Black
291		Indexes at the Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park, 1940–1945 Rodney M. Brunt
300		Finnish Information Services for Technology during the First Half of the Twentieth Century Ilkka Mäkinen
310		Libraries and Documentation in Germany: A Long-Lasting Conflict Marlies Ockenfeld and Hansjoachim Samulowitz
327		Erich Pietsch: International Connections of a German Pioneer in Information Science Thomas Hapke
339		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
353		Drops in the Ocean: The Development of Scientific and Technological Information Services in Australia Michael Middleton

		DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES
363		Recent Developments in Electronic Access to the Data of Science Brian Vickery
373		Intergovernmental Cooperation for Mission-Oriented Information Systems: A Memoir John E. Woolston
391		The FAO and the Building of National Agricultural Information and Documentation Systems from 1966 to 1988 Michel J. Menou
406		L’Homme qui voulait classer le monde (The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World), a film by Françoise Levie W. Boyd Rayward

409		Index

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