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AIDA
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AIDA - Associazione Italiana per la Documentazione Avanzata
[Italian
Association for Advanced Documentation] - was founded in Rome
in 1983
as a non-profit body to contribute to the definition, knowledge and
development
of documentation and information science as a cultural area, and to
strengthen
the profession of Italian "documentalist" (information specialist) as a
highly specialised activity. AIDA is member of
ECIA
(European Council of Information Associations) and accepts
its ethical
code of I&D professionals,
Ethical
Principles for Information and Documentation Professionals,
and the
ECIA
Statement
on
Intellectual Property and Copyright. As well as other
European associations,
AIDA is associated partner of the
DECIDoc/CERTIDoc
projects, with the aim to develop a European certification of
information
professionals' competencies. AIDA regurarly holds the "Sessione
italiana"
[Italian Session] at the
London
IOLIM dating from its foundation, by bi-lateral contacts with
similar
Italian and European associations. AIDA publishes the international
quarterly
on information sciences "
AIDAinformazioni",
both in print and in electronic version, the free electronic newsletter
"
AIDAlampi"
as well
as
occasional
publications
including manuals, monographs, and proceedings of national conferences,
seminars and workshops.