Interview Dusoulier (2000) Rayward/INIST

Interview with Nathalie Dusoulier by W. Boyd Rayward in 2000

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Interview with Nathalie Dusoulier by W. Boyd Rayward in 2000

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Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST)

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Rayward

I think that’s interesting, because my sense is that INIST, Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique, has a rather different focus.

Dusoulier

Now. But that was not the purpose of its creation. The purpose was to become a European center, in fact. We can have a look at it.

The goal was: “La confirmation de transfer à Nancy. Où la préparation de l’organigramme du futur institut. Afin que celui-ci paisse répondre aux impératifs d’innovation, de productivité, de commercialisation. Tout en évoluant avec les techniques nouvelles.”

Commercialization

Rayward

So this is, in a sense, the new bit, the commercialization?

Dusoulier

The commercialization goal is new. This is why we thought — la création d’une filiale de commercialisation. So that we could better sell what we were doing. You know, the goal was la création d’un INIST en ordre de constituer un pôle national, de production et de diffusion de l’information scientifique et technique spécialisé à l’intention de la recherche dans les entreprises.

Rayward

That’s new, too, isn’t it—the entreprises? The businesses.

Dusoulier

It is new. You know, these are physical science, science for engineers. Informatique documentaire indispensable au fonctionnement de tous les centres de documentation modernes.

Rayward

So, those are the organizations within France that are cooperating with INIST?

Dusoulier

Yes. This is cooperation with Bibliothèque de France. This is the beginning of research in bibliometry. The first steps to the digitalization. We have organized a close cooperation with a number of centers to try to solve the problems related to the digitalization of documents.

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Rayward

These are the international centers?

Dusoulier

International centers and also Centre Scientifique et technique du Bâtiment in France, Fachinformationszentrum in Karlsruhe [Germany], VINITI [All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information], Wissenchaft für Mathematik, Informationzentrum Sozialwissenschaften in Bonn, Swedoc in Sweden, EGO, Consiplio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Italy, Konin Klijke Bibliotheck in the Netherlands, and Japinfo in Japan. We had a very close relationship with all of them.

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