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Peer reviewedMcDonald, David R. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1985
This article examines the role of authority control in an online environment. Topics covered include a definition of authority control, the relationship between authority control and catalogs, current school of thought regarding the need for authority control, and other models of data administration. Twenty-three references are cited. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Information Processing, Information Systems
Peer reviewedWalker, Donald E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981
Reviews developments in research on information storage and retrieval, question-answering and natural language interface online systems, and the processes of synthesis and interpretation in intelligent behavior. Problem formulation, information requests, and knowledge representation are discussed in relation to the design and use of retrieval…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Databases, Information Processing
Download full textLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC. – 1984
The Program Session of the April 1984 meeting of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) was devoted to discussion of electronic information delivery systems. Recent developments in six areas were covered: (1) electronic manuscript generation and transmission; (2) online full-text searching and retrieval; (3) online database…
Descriptors: Databases, Delivery Systems, Electronic Equipment, Information Dissemination
