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Wall, E.; Barnes, J. – 1969
This is the fifth in a series of eight reports of a research study for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) on the effective utilization of bibliographic data bases in machine readable form. NAL desires ultimately to develop techniques of interacting with other data bases so that queries put to NAL may be answered with documents or document…
Descriptors: Automation, Citations (References), Databases, Indexing
Bobka, Marilyn E.; Subramaniam, J.B. – 1967
The chemical coding scheme of the Medical Coding Scheme (MCS), developed for use in the Comparative Systems Laboratory (CSL), is outlined and evaluated in this report. The chemical coding scheme provides a classification scheme and encoding method for drugs and chemical terms. Using the scheme complicated chemical structures may be expressed…
Descriptors: Automation, Biological Sciences, Biomedicine, Chemistry
Sherman, Don; Shoffner, Ralph M. – 1969
As part of the report on the California State Library Processing Center (CSL-PC) design and specifications, this volume covers: (1) file maintenance, a discussion of updating system files with new entries and MARC tapes; (2) authority verification, the correction and standardization of subject headings and author names; (3) the filing system for a…
Descriptors: Automation, Book Catalogs, Filing, Information Processing
Neufeld, Margaret L. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1972
Specific aspects of the thesaurus treated in this brief review are: thesaurus as a concept, classification and structure, and language compilation and control. (75 references) (NH)
Descriptors: Automation, Classification, Data Processing, Indexing
Harris, Jessica L. – 1969
Based on the principle that alphabetical arrangement should be based on the characters actually appearing in the sort field, a computer filing code was produced which provides rules for formatting entries for computer manipulation. This study applies the principles developed in that code to library subject headings, using a sample of the Library…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, Computer Programs, Computers
Schumacher, H. H.; And Others – 1973
A correlation between recall (the retrieval of all available relevant documents) and quantity of text which served as a source of index terms on input can reasonably be expected. Specifically, recall should decrease as the quantity of text serving as a source of index terms is restricted. On the other hand, the time for indexing and therefore the…
Descriptors: Automation, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Centers
Defense Documentation Center, Alexandria, VA. – 1972
The bibliography is a compilation of annotated references on information sciences: information processing systems and techniques and is volume III in a four-volume set on information sciences. It is a revision to the unlimited references of the earlier bibliographies, AD-829 001 and AD-829 002, on the same subject. Volume III contains references…
Descriptors: Automation, Bibliographies, Documentation, Information Dissemination