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ital-5786	Silberstein, Stephen	Technical Communications	1973-12-01	12	.pdf	application/pdf	7027	352	55	More specifi- cally, the study will: • Characterize typical data base pub- lishing activities in terms of markets, products, sales strategies, methods of data base collection, distribution, etc.; • Identify the current and expected roles of private industry sectors, gov- ernment, and professional associa- tions; • Analyze existing and latent markets for data base publishing ventures and estimate market growth over the next five years; • Describe criteria for analyzing the economics of data base publishing services and pricing them; • Review hardware, software, and de- velopments likely to affect the indus- try in the next five years, including emergence of lower-cost switched data networks; • Describe the probable impacts of Technical Communications 267 public policy and regulatory devel- opments, including copyright legis- lation, patentability of software, and concern over protection of confiden- tiality of personal information, and • Characterize the reasons for past failures of certain data base publish- ing ventures and propose strategies for successful involvement. A file conversion is a messy, difficult and essentially unproductive task, no matter how well done, because it merely transforms existing data into an- other form and in so doing exposes, for all to see, the many ancient errors which we do not want to see.	cache/ital-5786.pdf	txt/ital-5786.txt