The scientific conference "INTERNET AND MODERN SOCIETY - 2002"

COMMON INFORMATION SPACE. REGION CULTURE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT ON MATERIALS OF ST.PETERSBURG AND PSKOV AREA

P.A. Grinfeld, T.E. Mersadykova

"Alt-Soft" - information and telecommunication technologies
St.Petersburg

Effective management and open community creation are depending on cultural level of society and on interactive communication field quality: verified and actual information, true links. Common information space developement is aimed at:

• the inner men and harmonic community developement, world outlook developement for all categories of people;
• universal public access to the infomation recources;
• cultural values informational safekeeping.

The essence of the concept is in use of two Internet-technologies. One is old: HTML-pages dynamic generation from the professional data-bases covering all spheres of activity and information sources. The second is new: use of an authoritative file of subject headings for the horizontal links established initially when cataloguing the objects (monuments, museum expositions, cultural actions). It means connection to the not-library information to exchange protocol z39.50.

Common information space is based on the Internet/Intranet as basic communication technologies and on professional data-bases as a source of actual content. Such data-bases were developed by Alt-Soft company for the poster of cultural events of St.Petersburg (www.billboard.spb.ru) and for Pskov's museum collections and historical monuments (www.opskove.ru). The second base of concept development is a technology of corporate cataloguing of libraries and authoritative files.

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