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Peer reviewedKelly, Glen J.; Slater, Ronald – Government Publications Review, 1991
Conversion of government publication records from an existing machine-readable file using the CODOC format resulted in fewer data entry revisions and the overcoming of three obstacles: incompatible database record formats, reformatting of all CODOC files, and addition of diacritics to CODOC files. Methodology and techniques are discussed for other…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, English, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSavoy, Jacques – Information Processing & Management, 2003
Discusses cross-language, multilingual, and bilingual information retrieval on the Web; evaluates retrieval effectiveness of indexing and search strategies based on test collections from CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) in English, French, German, and Italian; and suggests and evaluates database merging strategies. Appendices include…
Descriptors: Databases, English, Evaluation Methods, French
Download full textRichey, Debora J. – 1993
The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) on compact disc provides access to nearly 300,000 printed materials from Britain and the British colonies from 1701 to 1800. The file contains a wide variety of materials (laws, almanacs, posters, catalogs, directories, verses, monographs, advertisements, and flyers) in all languages, and covers…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, English, Foreign Countries
