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Lloyd, Geoffrey – 1979
The Broad System of Ordering (BSO), a subject-indication coding and ordering scheme developed to meet the requirements of the UNISIST program for an international switching mechanism between information systems using diverse indexing/retrieval languages is described. The scope and purpose of the BSO, its development and testing, a schematic…
Descriptors: Classification, Information Networks, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Summit, Roger K. – 1980
Until 1980 online information retrieval and dissemination services were for the most part based in the United States. Today, however, a variety of information services as well as packet-switched networks are emerging in other countries. Although U.S. developed software still predominates in overall use, activity in Europe and other countries is…
Descriptors: Competition, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval, Information Services
Kaungamno, E. E. – 1980
This paper discusses the role of information in national development, addressing such issues as for whom and for what purposes information is needed in developing countries, the impact of the information explosion on the Third World, and the problems inherent in current national and international information infrastructures. A series of statements…
Descriptors: Databases, Developing Nations, Documentation, Information Dissemination
Download full textTillett, Barbara B. – 2000
This paper discusses how the authority control performed by libraries can help the World Wide Web and suggests some next steps in making this resource of authority records available and used internationally. Topics addressed include: (1) characteristics of the Web; (2) precision and recall; (3) connecting international authority files, including a…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authority Control (Information), Cataloging, Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Presents abstracts of 38 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Topics addressed include data models for historical information; managing information in biomedical research; electronic information access in higher education; equal access to information and the socioeconomic distribution of ownership and use of information technologies;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Access to Information, Biomedicine, Conferences
Findley, Paul – 1991
These keynote remarks review some of the origins of Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act. This legislation, whose goal is to conquer famine and malnutrition worldwide, was signed into law by President Ford in 1975. Senator Hubert Humphrey's address at the 1977 Famine Prevention Symposium in Washington, DC, is recounted with emphasis on his…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Developing Nations, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries
