registration form

hotel list (pdf)

09.00 Check in of the participants

10.15 Welcome and meeting opening

Lucia Bianco, ELISAD Chair

and Director of the National Institute of Public Health

Mgr. Josef Radimecki

(Including 10mn sharing with the participants)

11,00 Coffee break

11,30 PHARE: Future of the collaboration with Eastern and Central European countries (to be confirmed)

Andrea Mitchell, SALIS, USA

(Including 10mn sharing with the participants)

Paula Walters, CCSA, Canada

(Including 10mn sharing with the participants)

13.00 Lunch at the Institute

and dissemination of the participants in four different rooms

Reporter: Andrea Mitchell, SALIS, USA

A crucial issue for those who commit themselves in the field of documentation and information on drugs and alcohol, is the relationship between information and political choices. The most widely-known information, the one that affects political choices, is often disconnected from scientific criteria but is often influenced by ideologies. Both public and private investments for those who work in the field of information and documentation on drug addiction and alcoholism are increasingly small, given the crisis of the welfare state which affects most European countries.

- to stimulate a discussion based on the different experiences of the various documen- tation and information centres attending the seminar;

- to identify both technical and ethical elements that - starting from the participants’ experiences - are fundamental in order to build useful and effective information and documentation initiatives;

- to specify the role played in the documentation and information field by governmental agencies, NGOs and the European Community.

 

14.45 Workshop 2: Building a website and linking

In this workshop, we will look at some techniques of building a website.

Because it is not necessary any more to know a great deal about HTML or other programming language we will not focus on this technical part. Instead we will look at the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) -methodes of creating simple websites. We can see how Netscape Composer works and Microsoft Frontpage. This workshop will answer the question on how to make a page, fill it with text and put in some nice graphics, making links to other pages on the same website and making links to other Internet sites.

Next we will spend some time looking at the different online publishing styles and some of the do's and don'ts of creating a webpage.

We will discuss the need to acquire the skill to produce a webpage (is it like typing a skill that everybody should have?), the need to implement the latest techniques that uses futuristic plug-ins (is it necesaary to use the latest findings in dynamic html and animated graphics?) and the need to find the content that will give substance to our website (why are so many website reluctant to go in depth with their information?)

 

The objective of the ELISAD subject gateway has been identified at the 11^th ELISAD annual meeting at Lisbon in November 1999.

It may provide to all members a significant and concrete information service. It appear also that many members are already involved in various projects aiming to track and evaluate appropriate information sources on the web and are willing to communicate their experience to others.

The Elisad gateway project enables us to share knowledge and methodologies on this issue. This workshop will provide the opportunity to report on the experimental stage of the gateway carried out by some Elisad members, and also to work concretely with the participants, on the basis of these first results, in order to enlarge and strengthen the project.

 

Reporter: someone among the participants?

After some general considerations on the objectives, the different types of electronical journals and the ones still existing in the field of AOD, the workshop will be centered on the Elisad Journal.

What kind of information is really useful for the Elisad members? For a wider range of AOD specialists working at a European level? Which useful information is not found easily in other AOD journals? What should be the added value of the Elisad Journal? What articles should we publish in 2001? Which kinds of links in the Journal are useful ? Who wants to participate actively in the editorial committee?

After these discussions, we will be to put together, on a computer, the December issue of the Elisad Journal.

Participants are requested to bring news from their countries of European interest (in Word, on a diskette, with pictures in .tif or .jpg format) as well as printed exemples of other electronical journals in the field of AOD or near.

Our common editing work will go through all the technical steps: from Word files to the lay-out on XPress and to the final PDF file.

16.00 Questions on this report