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RLIN Product Batch: Fundamental Design Concepts.

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Crawford, Walt – Information Technology and Libraries, 1984

Considers fundamental decisions that shaped the output products of Research Libraries Information Network. Product Batch was designed using single data definition (RMARC) combined with standard PL/I, modular programing techniques, program documentation. Choice of software and programing languages, other design aspects (accountability, count…

Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases, Information Systems

How To Succeed in Promoting Your Web Site: The Impact of Search Engine Registration on Retrieval of a World Wide Web Site.

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Tunender, Heather; Ervin, Jane – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998

Character strings were planted in a World Wide Web site (Project Whistlestop) to test indexing and retrieval rates of five Web search tools (Lycos, infoseek, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite). It was found that search tools indexed few of the planted character strings, none indexed the META descriptor tag, and only Excite indexed into the 3rd-4th site…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation