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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING 
INTERNATIONALE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR PHOTOGRAMMETRIE UND FERNERKUNDUNG 
SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE DE PHOTOGRAMMETRIE ET DE TELEDETECTION 
COMMISSION VI 
Economics, Professional Aspects, Education, Periodicals, Terminology, Bibliography, History, International Exchange of Information 
Working Group VI -6 : Periodicals 
o. T IL I N X _ 903 
1. The scope of this Outline is to prepare sessions at our Symposium, 22 - 25 
September 1982 in Mainz, on the topic 
The Role of Periodicals Facing the Year 2000. 
It is a cooperative venture with the ISP Publications Policy Committee. 
2. We anticipate to have the following Invited Papers (appr. 20 minutes each): 
2.1 Basic treatment of the theme 
"The Role of Periodicals in Scientific Communication Facing 
the Year 2000 Including Trends to Achieve that Function". 
This subject can be covered with a broad view not necessarily bound to 
our professional field. We plan to have different papers on the theme 
with emphasis on 
2.1.1 worldwide aspects, 
2.1.2 european aspects, 
2.1.3 other aspects (proposals are welcome). 
2.2 Treatment of our professional field for regions on the theme 
" Present State of Periodicals and other Series Publications on 
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in ... with an Outlook 
into the Next Decade ", 
one paper each covering Africa, North America, Latin America, 
Asia / Pacific and Europe. 
2.3 The future of 'Photogrammetria' as official organ of ISP. 
2.4 Policies for, and implementation of an ISP Bulletin. 
3. Some few ideas on the basic treatment : 
+ The number of scientific - technical periodicals (presently some 300 000) 
is continuously increasing, whereas the willingness of people to read 
decreases. 
* Industrialized countries are overflowed with printed material. Yet, 
the capacity of readers is exhausted. 
+ Increasingly, previous publications are often not referenced and 
considered when preparing a new paper. That is a waste of efforts. 
+ What is the use of publishing if the content is not read nor digested ? 
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Secretary 1980-1984 President 1980-1984 : Adress 
DIPL. ING. H. KANTELHARDT PROF. DR. J. HOTHMER COMMISSION VI ISP 
Landesvermessungsamt Fachhochschule RheinlandstraBe 19 
Wiesbaden Mainz D 6231 Schwalbach 
Tel. 06121 535343 Tel. 06196 3581 FR Germany