Date

To obtain a copy of the workshop report visit the web site at:
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/euus/index.html.
Copies of the report in various formats are linked at the bottom of the web

page.

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to forward the report from the EU-US Workshop on Large
Scientific Databases, Sept 8-10 1999, Annapolis, MD.

I would appreciate hearing from you about future steps you may be
interested in taking in response to the recommended research areas and
forms of collaboration.

I would encourage you to visit the workshop site
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/euus/index.html, and in addition to the final
report, read also the background information about the workshop (About
link), Position Papers submitted by the workshop participants, and examine
Links providing pointers to relevant information sources. I'd also like to
ask you to suggest additional URLs to relevant material to the workshop
organizer Roy Williams roy [at] cacr.caltech.edu.

I would also like to encourage you to disseminate the workshop report to
your research communities, as the recommendations touch upon most areas
supported by NSF, and the success of carrying out the suggested research
and activities depends critically upon a close collaboration between domain
and computer/information technology scientists, engineers and educators in
the US and EC.

Thank you,

Maria Zemankova, Ph.D.
Program Director, Information and Data Management (IDM)
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115
Arlington, VA 22230

email: mzemanko [at] nsf.gov
Phone: 703-306-1926
Fax: 703-306-0599
URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm