György Rózsa: Information: from claims to needs (Joint edition published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kultura Hungarian Foreign Trading Company. Budapest, 1988)
II. International relations in the field of scientific information
124 2. For current detailed information on the centre's activities with special respect to the ECSS1D Projects, see Vienna Centre Newsletter. 3. The idea and experiment in international co-operation among social science information institutions has existed over the past thirty years, and several bodies have been involved in it. In this respect, special mention should be made of the International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation, which has played a pioneer role. Cf. Rózsa and Földi, op. cit. 4. Cf. Meyriat, and Rózsa and Földi, op. cit. 5. To mention just a few FID (International Federation for Documentation) is a world-wide and general organization for documentation with only a certain interest in SSID; IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) similar to FID; IFDO (International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Sciences); MISON (the SSDI organization of the Academies of Sciences of the socialist countries). 6. For addresses see.ECSSID Bulletin , Vol. 2, No. 1, 1980, pp. 26-27. 7. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USSR, Yugoslavia; also participating were Unesco, the Vienna Centre, United Nations Library at Geneva, International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation (ICSSID), International Federation of Documentation (FID), and International Social Information System (MISON) of the socialist countries. 8. The conference papers were initially published in Russian and English versions by INION, and later as a special issue of Information Processing and Management, Vol. 14, No. 3/4, 1978, Oxford, Pergamon Press. 9. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia; and Unesco, FID ICSSID, IFDO, IFLA, INFOTERM and MISON. 10. Social Integration of Ethnic Minorities Including Migrant Workers, Bonn, IZ. (Until 1987 5 vols, were published by the WG 2.) 11. Imre Molnár, Establishing the model of INTERCONCEPT, International Terminological Information Network (INTERMIN) in Social Sciences, General Survey and Project. Project manager: György Rózsa, Budapest, 1980, p. 112 (Unesco Contract No. 3671. IDS/32 270314). 12. The programme included: (a) a survey of social science data bases available in Europe or in some parts of Europe whether from European or overseas origin; (b) current policies of European countries referring to data bases in general, and specifically to social science data bases: their creation, financing, exploitation...; (c) an analysis of existing social science data bases: structure, coverage, service provided, condition of on-line and off-line access (from a technical as well as from an economic point of view), indexing and retrieval tools; (d) multidisciplinary data bases outside social science: their use for the social science; (e) specific characters of data bases in the social science and humanities: the role of national factors: political, legal, ideological, economic...; (0 linguistic barriers; progress being made towards common indexing languages and command languages; (g) networking: status and problems of West European networks; (h) networks in the USSR and the CMEA countries;
