Towards Informatics 2

What is informatics? First it must be confessed that it seemed to form an excellent conference label. In this respect it may be compared with linguistic confections, like Infochem and Infofair. Too many meetings are burdened with over‐long titles peppered with prepositions—was it a conference on…, or a symposium in…? Further, informatics appears to be acceptable in a wide variety of European languages: it could be argued that its adoption for the Co‐ordinate Indexing Group's annual conference was their modest contribution to European unity.