Friday, February 22, 2008

1980
The Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and other organizations merge to form the Royal Society of Chemistry in Great Britain.
NSF awards grant to Fritz Machlup to study "Information Science: An Analysis of Methodological Issues and Interdisciplinary Relationships." Report is issued in 1984 (Altman, 1993).
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-511, is passed. Designates the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as major agency to coordinate federal information. Establishes the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in OMB (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
The ACS publication, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, is made available in full text on an experimental basis on the (BRS) Bibliographic Retrieval Service online system.
Gmelin Handbuch begins transition from German to English.
1981
First successfully marketed IBM personal computer, the IBM PC.
1982
Fachgruppe Chemie-Information is founded within the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker.
Great Britain's Chemical Structure Association is established.
Chemical Abstracts issues a collective index for 1977-1981.
1983
Division of Chemical Information and Computer Science is founded within the Chemical Society of Japan.
CA File, the most complete online equivalent of CA, is introduced.
U.S. National Science Foundationincorporates ARPANET into its new INTERNET (interactive network) (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
1984
CAS ONLINE is incorporated, along with non-CAS databases, into Scientific and Technical Network (STN) International, a joint operation of CAS, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, and Fachinformationzentrum Karlsruhe.
Journal of Biological Chemistry becomes first journal to ask authors to reference an electronic database, in this case of nucleotide sequences.
1986
NSFNET (National Science Foundaton Network) is established. Implements a high-speed data communications network to link the National Supercomputing Centers and their networks (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
NSF Division of Information Science becomes the Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Altman, 1993).
1987
First International Conference on Chemical Structures held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
Teleosophy System (early precursor project for multimedia browsing on distributed file servers) begins at Bell Labs by Schatz (Schatz, 1997).
1988
National Center for Biotechnology Information founded to oversee the information components of the Human Genome Project.
1989
First International Conference on Chemical Information held in Montreux, Switzerland.
Tetrahedron Computer Methodology, edited by W. Todd Wipke, becomes the first journal published in electronic form only, available on floppy disks.
March: Tim Berners-Lee (CERN) prepares internal paper titled "Information Management: A Proposal," describing a proposed information system for CERN. W3C history considers this an important document in the development of the Web. (Contains interesting similarities to proposals by IST professionals for information services.)
1980
The Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and other organizations merge to form the Royal Society of Chemistry in Great Britain.
NSF awards grant to Fritz Machlup to study "Information Science: An Analysis of Methodological Issues and Interdisciplinary Relationships." Report is issued in 1984 (Altman, 1993).
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-511, is passed. Designates the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as major agency to coordinate federal information. Establishes the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in OMB (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
The ACS publication, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, is made available in full text on an experimental basis on the (BRS) Bibliographic Retrieval Service online system.
Gmelin Handbuch begins transition from German to English.
1981
First successfully marketed IBM personal computer, the IBM PC.
1982
Fachgruppe Chemie-Information is founded within the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker.
Great Britain's Chemical Structure Association is established.
Chemical Abstracts issues a collective index for 1977-1981.
1983
Division of Chemical Information and Computer Science is founded within the Chemical Society of Japan.
CA File, the most complete online equivalent of CA, is introduced.
U.S. National Science Foundationincorporates ARPANET into its new INTERNET (interactive network) (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
1984
CAS ONLINE is incorporated, along with non-CAS databases, into Scientific and Technical Network (STN) International, a joint operation of CAS, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, and Fachinformationzentrum Karlsruhe.
Journal of Biological Chemistry becomes first journal to ask authors to reference an electronic database, in this case of nucleotide sequences.
1986
NSFNET (National Science Foundaton Network) is established. Implements a high-speed data communications network to link the National Supercomputing Centers and their networks (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
NSF Division of Information Science becomes the Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Altman, 1993).
1987
First International Conference on Chemical Structures held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
Teleosophy System (early precursor project for multimedia browsing on distributed file servers) begins at Bell Labs by Schatz (Schatz, 1997).
1988
National Center for Biotechnology Information founded to oversee the information components of the Human Genome Project.
1989
First International Conference on Chemical Information held in Montreux, Switzerland.
Tetrahedron Computer Methodology, edited by W. Todd Wipke, becomes the first journal published in electronic form only, available on floppy disks.
March: Tim Berners-Lee (CERN) prepares internal paper titled "Information Management: A Proposal," describing a proposed information system for CERN. W3C history considers this an important document in the development of the Web. (Contains interesting similarities to proposals by IST professionals for information services.)
1980
The Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and other organizations merge to form the Royal Society of Chemistry in Great Britain.
NSF awards grant to Fritz Machlup to study "Information Science: An Analysis of Methodological Issues and Interdisciplinary Relationships." Report is issued in 1984 (Altman, 1993).
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-511, is passed. Designates the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as major agency to coordinate federal information. Establishes the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in OMB (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
The ACS publication, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, is made available in full text on an experimental basis on the (BRS) Bibliographic Retrieval Service online system.
Gmelin Handbuch begins transition from German to English.
1981
First successfully marketed IBM personal computer, the IBM PC.
1982
Fachgruppe Chemie-Information is founded within the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker.
Great Britain's Chemical Structure Association is established.
Chemical Abstracts issues a collective index for 1977-1981.
1983
Division of Chemical Information and Computer Science is founded within the Chemical Society of Japan.
CA File, the most complete online equivalent of CA, is introduced.
U.S. National Science Foundationincorporates ARPANET into its new INTERNET (interactive network) (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
1984
CAS ONLINE is incorporated, along with non-CAS databases, into Scientific and Technical Network (STN) International, a joint operation of CAS, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, and Fachinformationzentrum Karlsruhe.
Journal of Biological Chemistry becomes first journal to ask authors to reference an electronic database, in this case of nucleotide sequences.
1986
NSFNET (National Science Foundaton Network) is established. Implements a high-speed data communications network to link the National Supercomputing Centers and their networks (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
NSF Division of Information Science becomes the Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Altman, 1993).
1987
First International Conference on Chemical Structures held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
Teleosophy System (early precursor project for multimedia browsing on distributed file servers) begins at Bell Labs by Schatz (Schatz, 1997).
1988
National Center for Biotechnology Information founded to oversee the information components of the Human Genome Project.
1989
First International Conference on Chemical Information held in Montreux, Switzerland.
Tetrahedron Computer Methodology, edited by W. Todd Wipke, becomes the first journal published in electronic form only, available on floppy disks.
March: Tim Berners-Lee (CERN) prepares internal paper titled "Information Management: A Proposal," describing a proposed information system for CERN. W3C history considers this an important document in the development of the Web. (Contains interesting similarities to proposals by IST professionals for information services.)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008