Numerical Data Advisory Board annual report, 1988--1989

摘要

The objective of the Numerical Data Advisory Board (NDAB) and its committees and panels is improvement in the quality, reliability, accessibility, dissemination, utilization, and management of data. NDAB seeks to promote an appreciation of the importance of evaluated data to scientists, engineers, and others who require reliable numerical data for research and for decision making. Delivery of numerical data to the research community is a newly added emphasis of NDAB's program. The Numerical Data Advisory Board is an interdisciplinary board, with representation form physics, chemistry, engineering, statistics, biosciences, geosciences, and interdisciplinary sciences. Because the goals of NDAB and the goals of CODATA overlap in several ways, NDAB meetings are held in conjunction with meetings of the US National Committee for CODATA (USNC/CODATA), thus informally broadening the representation from each of the disciplines. Lists of members of NDAB and its committees and panels are given in Attachment A.