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Peer reviewedBills, Linda G.; Helgerson, Linda W. – Library Hi Tech, 1988
Reports information gathered from eight vendors on the preparation of bibliographic data for CD-ROM public access catalogs: (1) sources of bibliographic records; (2) duplicate record handling; (3) holdings and location information; (4) maintaining the database; (5) authority control; (7) record corrections; (7) extraction of subsets; (8)…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Comparative Analysis, Database Design
Peer reviewedCarpenter, Michael – Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 1988
Describes variations in current bibliographic databases in such areas as database organization, contents, authority control, and uses. The discussion covers the implications of these factors, optical disk technologies, and the Linked Systems Project for the future of national bibliographic databases. (nine references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Database Design, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedMoffat, Alistair; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1994
Describes an approximate document ranking process that uses a compact array of in-memory, low-precision approximations for document length. Combined with another rule for reducing the memory required by partial similarity accumulators, the approximation heuristic allows the ranking of large document collections using less than one byte of memory…
Descriptors: Database Design, Database Management Systems, Full Text Databases, Information Retrieval
