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Milstead, Jessica L.; Berger, Mary C. – Information Services and Use, 1993
Describes the development of a thesaurus for indexing the databases of Engineering Information, Inc., that improved the former precoordinate indexing vocabulary with postcoordinate descriptors and an appropriate set of thesaurus relationships. Problems of incompatibility with old indexing are addressed, and the use of an outside consultant versus…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Consultants, Databases, Engineering