International Directory Network—Russian Branch

Abstract

The prospects of the WDC system development, its increasingly important role in space and earth science and continuing efforts to perfect it in every way are, to a great extent, associated with the initiatives and participation of its creators in setting up globally distributed information-retrieval systems. The CEOS International Directory Network project is at the moment deeply and crucially involved in these activities. The network recently launched an extension to Russia through the Russian IDN Cooperating Node managed by the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Three main fields of activity are considered: (i) improvements of the users-IDN information resources links, (ii) plans for creating a GEONET information- computer network by joint efforts of the RAS Department for Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Mining, which is viewed as an IDN prospective component part, and (iii) improvement of the on-line information system GOLDIS, Version 2, which is now a division of the IDN catering to Russian users of IDN resources.