SPECIAL THEME:

• Metadata: An Overview and some Issues by Keith G Jeffery
• KINE - A Knowledge INtegration Environment by Patrizia Asirelli
• GEN.LIB - An Approach to Object Persistence by Jaroslav Pokorny
• SARI - A System for Semantical Information Retrieval by Kuldar Taveter
• Semantic Querying of Scientific Data through a Context Meta-data Database by Epaminondas Kapetanios and Moira C. Norrie
• Intelligent Mediation of Cultural Information Sources by Bernd Amann, Vassilis Christophides, Irini Fundulaki, Michel Scholl and Anne-Marie Vercoustre
• Intelligent Event Notification based on Active Database and Fuzzy Triggers by Antoni Wolski
• Digital Media Warehouse Systems - Querying a National Multimedia Database by Martin Kersten
• The MIRO-Web by Peter Fankhauser
• Contents and Use of a Healthcare Domain Reference Data Model by Erich Leisch
• On-line Information Services for Trade Fairs and Congresses based on Multimedia Databases by Thomas Klement, Thomas Risse, Matthias Hemmje, Martin Leissler and Matthias Malsy
• ERGO: European Research Gateways Online and CERIF: Computerised Exchange of Research Information Format by Keith G Jeffery
• XML and the World-Wide Web Consortium Leverage Action Project by Brian Matthews
• WebStore - A Web-based Secure Multimedia Document Store by Thomas Gringel
• Concept Index: Social Knowledge Construction from Documents by Keiichi Nakata, Angi Voss, Marcus Juhnke and Thomas Kreifelts
• An Object-Oriented Database Model for Business Entities and Processes by Michele Missikoff and Roberto Pizzicannella

• EURO-GRAPHICS’98 - Discovering New Realities by David Duce and Joaquim Jorge
• HLCL'98 and EXPRESS’98 by Uwe Nestmann and Ilaria.Castellani

• INRIA - Gérard Huet...
• INRIA - Jean-Pierre Merlet...
• CNUCE-CNR - The Michelangelo prize...
• INRIA - Serge Abiteboul...
• Sir James Lighthill...
• INRIA - Olivier Faugeras...

• by Franco Malerba, Member of the European Parliament

• ERCIM will be Alpha Test User of Managed Bandwidth Services in TEN-155 by Siegfried Dickhoven
• Slovak Consortium joins ERCIM by Gabriela Andrejkova and Branislav Rovan
• ERCIM offers Post-Doctoral Fellowships
• Second European Conference On Research and Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries by Christos Nikolaou
• Seventh DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce by Petros Kavassalis
• Sixth DELOS Workshop dedicated to Preservation of Digital Information by José Borbinha and Lex Sijtsma
• ERCIM Sponsorship for Conferences and Workshops

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations by Edward A. Fox
• SCORE - Scene COmplexity REduction for Real-Time 3D Environments by Boris Groth, Juan Carlos Escudero and Roberto Scopigno
• Dynamic Updating of Software Components in TINA-based Systems by Marcin Solarski
• The Coordination Language Manifold by Farhad Arbab

• Sharing Expertise Worldwide: Where does the Desktop end? by David Duce
• Factoring Record starts Attack on RSA Code by Henk Nieland
• Two Information Brokering Service Environments undergo Pilot Tests by Roland Klemke and Alexander Sigel
• EUROMAP - The Language of Tomorrow’s Information by Cinzia Giachetti
• CharToon - A JAVA-based Animation System by Paul ten Hagen
• GMD and Hitachi to develop new Active Network Architecture by Stefan Covaci
• BSCW Groupware System now Commercially Available by Wolfgang Appelt