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Gershenfeld, Nancy – Online, 1995
Discusses client-server architecture in dumb terminals, personal computers, local area networks, and graphical user interfaces. Focuses on functions offered by client personal computers: individualized environments; flexibility in running operating systems; advanced operating system features; multiuser environments; and centralized data…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Computer Software
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Rowe, Neil C.; Guglielmo, Eugene J. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discusses the use of natural language processing to help organize multimedia data. The MARIE system, which uses captions to embody the classificatory information and heuristic advice necessary to search a database of photographs, is explained. Advantages include improved speed of access and the ability for improved user interaction. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Captions, Database Design, Database Management Systems
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Paris, C. Gregory – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1997
Organized from the viewpoint of information retrieval theory, this review addresses issues of chemical information representation, comparison and matching, and retrieval strategies. Additional topics include similarity and clustering, visualization, and molecular diversity. Trends in research and application are identified, and gaps in the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Database Design
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Hebbeler, Kathleen M. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1991
This article describes data requirements in Public Law 99-457; discusses issues confronting states as they develop data systems, such as the problems of comprehensiveness, incompatibility, and confidentiality; examines data on numbers of infants and toddlers receiving early intervention services; and explores applications of a national database on…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Data Collection, Database Design, Databases
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Neuman, Delia – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1993
This article reports results of a case study of text-based online and CD-ROM databases that identified design characteristics that are important to high school students' use for higher-level learning as well as for information access and retrieval. Implications for the design of databases are suggested. (Contains 62 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Database Design
Murphy, Catherine – 1992
Computerized systems have dramatically altered the way that information can be organized, published, searched and retrieved. This paper: (1) examines the components of subject access in online systems; (2) identifies the potential for subject access enhancements, such as enriching the contents of the database and improving user-system interaction,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Database Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Sommers, Dixie – 2000
To prepare young people and adults for labor market success, career-technical education (CTE) practitioners must know how to find and use work force information. Recent federal legislation, including the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, underscores the importance of work force education. The nationwide work force information system makes data on…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education, Career Information Systems
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