Report on the 18^th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD)

The annual series of the British National Conference on Databases has been a forum for UK database practitioners and a focus for database research since 1981. In recent years, interest in this conference series has extended well beyond the UK.BNCOD 2001, the 18th conference in the series, was held at the CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) from 9th -11th July 2001. RAL hosts national large-scale facilities for advanced scientific research. The Information Technology Department collaborates with the Laboratory's data centres that manage terabytes of data in remote sensing, high-energy physics and astronomy.BNCOD 2001 included scientific papers, invited talks, a panel and a poster session. The BNCOD Programme Committee, chaired by Professor Carole Goble of Manchester University, selected for presentation at the meeting eleven papers, about one third of those papers submitted. Contributors were drawn from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Canada and USA, as well as the UK. The audience of 60 attendees was chiefly drawn from the UK database community. The Proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and are available online at: http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2097.htm.