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Download full textCouncil on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1981
This publication specifies a set of general and technical requirements that must be met by the proposed Name Authority File Service in order to create an integrated, consistent name authority file for a nationwide library and information services network. Contributions from selected institutions operating online to a single computer-based system…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Networks, Information Systems, Library Networks
Simmons, Peter, Ed.; Hopkinson, Alan, Ed. – 1988
This report provides the specifications for a bibliographic format which is a detailed and structured method for recording a number of mandatory and optional data elements in a computer-readable bibliographic record for exchange purposes between two or more computer-based systems. The specifications are designed to permit local designers to devise…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Bibliographic Utilities, Computer Networks
Peer reviewedBuckley, Joseph James – Special Libraries, 1983
Examines the capabilities, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility of the Stanford Public Information Retrieval System (SPIRES), an online information retrieval system producing a variety of printed products, and notes its use in the Title I Evaluation Clearinghouse, advantages of SPIRES, programing, and availability. Eleven references and a five-item…
Descriptors: Automation, Clearinghouses, Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
Written in response to a request to review the implementation of the Department of Agriculture's Electronic Dissemination of Information (EDI) system, this fact sheet discusses the performance of the contractor operating the system and the role of EDI in the Department of Agriculture's overall public dissemination activities. A letter from the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Contracts, Costs, Formative Evaluation
Joint Committee on Printing, Washington, DC. – 1985
An open forum was held to let concerned parties comment on the report, "Provision of Federal Government Publications in Electronic Format to Depository Libraries," and to solicit suggestions for possible pilot projects that could test the feasibility of the proposal. More than 150 agency representatives, congressional staffers,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Depository Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1983
This second-year project report describes the current status and future planned development of the Florida Information Resource Network (FIRN), an evolving statewide system which will make possible the electronic movement of educational data between Florida's public schools, school districts, colleges, universities, the Department of Education…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1982
In response to a legislative proviso, this project report presents an introductory development plan for the Florida Information Resource Network (FIRN), which is designed to connect Florida's public schools, school districts, Department of Education (DOE), and Legislature as part of a statewide online interactive educational data retrieval and…
Descriptors: Charts, Computers, Data Collection, Databases
