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Surf the 'Net for News on Noise

George C. Maling Jr, NNI Managing Editor and William W. Lang, NNI Feature Editor

AUTHORS' NOTE:This page was originally published in print form in the 1999 December issue of Noise/News International, beginning on page 201. The original title was "Noise on the 'Net." It has been marked up with html tags and placed on the Internet with live links to the URLs given in the original article. It will be continuously updated as new information becomes available and links change. The reason for the change in title is explained in the Acknowledgement at the bottom of the page.

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Since 1992, the explosive growth of the Internet and particularly the widespread use of hypertext transfer protocol to make available pages marked up with hypertext markup language (html) has made very significant changes on how everyone with access to the Internet obtains information. Professionals in noise control engineering can now routinely obtain information worldwide with a few clicks of the "mouse." The ability to create pages with relatively little effort and post those pages on the Internet has greatly improved the ways that professionals can communicate. In this article, we have included the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for many pages on the Internet.

The availability of many search engines and the ability to structure queries to those engines has made retrieval of information much easier than could have been imagined eight years ago. In 1999 October, searching for noise using the Webcrawler search engine yielded 13384 "hits", and the Alta Vista search engine search resulted in 1,356,490 "hits." More sophisticated searches with the ability to accept Boolean logic statements can narrow down the number of hits for a particular area related to noise. One particularly useful site is the Yahoo search engine. From that home page, one can go to Science and then to Acoustics and find many links to sites related to noise control, including consultants, universities, and companies. Nevertheless, there is a need for guidance through the large amount of information on noise available on the Internet. In 1945, the American engineer, Vannevar Bush, introduced the concept of the memex, a machine not unlike today's personal computer with a CD-ROM attached and with access to the internet. One of the important concepts that he described was that of trails. He visualized a very large amount of information on science and technology becoming available, and suggested that persons knowledgable in a particular field should prepare trails through the information to guide others and to save them effort in the discovery process.

We have prepared this article to produce a reasonably comprehensive account of information related to noise control available on the Internet.We will be most grateful to our colleagues if they can inform us of new pages of interest, dead links, etc., and we will attempt to keep the version of this article on the Internet as up-to-date as possible.

The article is broadly divided by International and Regional Resources in a number of key areas, and National Resources by country. The name of the Member Society of International INCE is included even though there may be no home page for that society.

There are many sites listed in this article for commerical sites and consultants. The authors, the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA and International INCE bear no responsibility for the information on those pages. There are undoubtedly sites that have been overlooked, but the authors have included all information available to them at the time this article was written.

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International and Regional Resources
International Resources

Associations

  • The home page of International INCE contains several links of interest. Links to conferences sponsored by International INCE are provided. There is a directory of the Member Societies of International INCE that lists each Member Society. For each Member Society that has published a Member Society Profile there is a link to that Member Society in the directory. To date, 29 Member Societies have profiles.

    In the National Resources listing below, links to Member Society Profiles have been established where available.

  • There is a link to the home page of the International Commission on Acoustics.

  • Malcolm Crocker maintains a site for the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration.
  • SCVN is the Scientific Committee on Vibration and Noise, one of the 32 committees of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). The committee diffuses information about vibration and noise hazards in the workplace, and their prevention.
  • Home page of the International Labor Organization.

Standards

  • There are two primary international standards organizations that produce standards related to noise. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) covers acoustics in Technical Committee 43 (TC 43), and noise is covered by Subcommittee 1 (TC43 SC1). From the home page above, one can link to the ISO standards catalog where a search engine is available to find standards related to acoustics and noise.
  • The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the second international organization concerned with standards in acoustics. Instruments for noise measurement are covered by Technical Committee 29 (TC 29).

Publications

Regional Resources

Associations

Governmental Organizations

  • The European Union, DG III, provides a list of references to harmonized standards in the context of the "New Approach" Directives.
  • A Green Paper on Future Noise Policy has been published by the European Union to guide future noise policy in the Union.
  • The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) is responsible for the following:
    • implementation of voluntary technical harmonization in Europe in conjunction with worldwide bodies and European partners; and
    • development of procedures for mutual recognition and conformity assessment to standards.

    CEN has not placed a catalog of its standards on the web.

  • The European Information System for Occupational Safety and Health has a page of interest. The first applications to be available as expert systems will be related to the assessment of noise- induced hearing loss and the selection of hearing protectors.
  • ECMA, formerly the European Computer Manufacturers Association, has standards and technical reports on noise from information technology and telecommunications equipment. There is no charge for the documents.

Publications

  • A section of the CERN World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWWVL) is devoted to engineering. This portion is maintained by NASA/GSFC Assurance Technologies, and includes a section on Acoustics and Vibration Engineering. This page contains additional links to a number of sites that will be of interest to noise control engineers.

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National Resources

For convenience, we have divided links to national resources by country so that a person can more easily find links to information within his or her country.

RESOURCES BY COUNTRY:

Australia

Associations

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