Information Retrieval of More than Text.

Buckland, Michael K.

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ERIC Number: EJ433328

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Publication Date: 1991

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Information Retrieval of More than Text.

Buckland, Michael K.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v42 n8 p586-88 Sep 1991

Raises fundamental questions about the scope of information science and information retrieval, and illustrates how it has evolved over the last 60 years. The work of European documentalists is described, the terminology of multimedia is examined, and image handling is discussed as a method of focusing on representations other than text. (12 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Documentation, Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Technology

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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