Cooperative research information systems in Physics is the title of the meeting, - we think that cooperation of scientists, providers, publishers and database hosts is the most professional way to approach the task of searching for new and efficient and professional services for physics information managing.

Thus you might expect questions such as 'how much is cooperation of different players necessary and encouraged by your propositions presented?'

Imagine looking at your entry on the Workshop server http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/conferences/crisp97/ how much is this giving links to your work, products, services, ideas? If not yet, please give us the necessary information, better, a link to a page which gives these informations. Thus the reader can surf through the oeuvre of all participants and can think and plan on cooperations.

The style of the workshop will be a physics workshop. Thus we expect that the participants have heard the last talks of most speakers at other related meetings, or have used the crisp-server to get informed before. Thus speakers will transfer new ideas, thoughts, plans for open full level discussion skipping review parts. We will respond to in that all times allocated for topics are meant to include ¹/₃ of discussion time, that is: after ²/₃ of the time the chairman will switch to the discussion assuming that the speaker has provoked and stirred up the audience so much that he is well prepared to put into the discussion the highlights of his further material. This also means that the participants are expected to be prepared to put in their thoughts actively into the discussion, including one-transparency-bites.

For the server each participant is encouraged to send addenda/comments or links to further material to any topic/contribution. The speakers are expected to review their topic in a way accessible through their entry to the server. The resulting network on the net will be already a step in the what we think necessary communication between us all.