I've a feeling that it's also reflected in Asia. But I'm also quite sure that it will disappear and that Asian countries that move in that direction will grow in health. Such a move needs to be done thoughtfully and carefully, listening to the reactions. You shouldn't leap into copying the American model but all of us need to make information as widely available as possible. SilverPlatter has been a pacesetter as far as standards are concerned.
Standards are what created the industry.
In early 1985, SilverPlatter invited many organisations to agree on a common standard which eventually became High Sierra, ISO 9360. This was the standard on which the industry developed. What we're concentrating on now, is the standard between the information and the user interface, the search engine which retrieves information and the way that information interacts with the user. What this means is that anyone who's got a user interface which complies with DXS, can use anyone's database which uses a retrieval engine based on the standard. In turn, this will create a user interface industry, people who build Chinese language interfaces, hospital interfaces or Vietnamese language interfaces, and the publishers will wrap the data up with the right search engine and distribute it.