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Knowledge Space: A Conceptual Basis for the Organization of Knowledge
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Meincke, Peter P. M.; Atherton, Pauline – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1976
Proposes a new conceptual basis for visualizing the organization of information, or knowledge, which differentiates between the concept "vectors" for a field of knowledge represented in a multidimensional space, and the state "vectors" for a person based on his understanding of these concepts, and the representational…
Descriptors: Classification, Conceptual Schemes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Subject Access Project. Third Quarterly Report.
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Atherton, Pauline – 1977
This third quarterly report for the period January to March 1977 describes the production schedule, records, and estimated costs and times in creating the Subject Access Project data base. Plans for on-line use of the data base and search strategy design are outlined. A table of specifications for preparing the data base for on-line searching is…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Databases, Experimental Programs
Subject Access Project. Second Quarterly Progress Report.
Atherton, Pauline – 1976
The Subject Access Project second quarterly report for September to December 1976 summarized in-progress work to improve subject access to monographs. Activities include: (1) analysis of book indexes and tables of contents for terms to augment MARC subject description; (2) analysis of additional book sections--e.g., maps, illustrations, charts,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Content Analysis, Databases, Experimental Programs
Evaluation of the Retrieval of Nuclear Science Document References Using the Universal Decimal Classification as the Indexing Language for a Computer-Based System
Atherton, Pauline; And Others – 1968
A single issue of Nuclear Science Abstracts, containing about 2,300 abstracts, was indexed by Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) using the Special Subject Edition of UDC for Nuclear Science and Technology. The descriptive cataloging and UDC-indexing records formed a computer-stored data base. A systematic random sample of 500 additional…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Books Are for Use. Final Report of the Subject Access Project to the Council on Library Resources.
Atherton, Pauline – 1978
Findings are reported for a project designed to improve subject access to books by augmenting MARC records with subject descriptions. A BOOKS data base, consisting of humanities and social science monographs, was created and made available for online searching. The availability of suitable information in books to produce augmented subject…
Descriptors: Books, Cataloging, College Libraries, Databases
AUDACIOUS - An Experiment with an On-Line, Interactive Reference Retrieval ment with an On-Line, Interactive Reference Retrieval System Using the Universal Decimal Classification as the Index Language in the Field of Nuclear Science.
Freeman, Robert R.; Atherton, Pauline – 1968
This report describes an experimental system for remote direct access to files of computer-stored information which has been indexed by the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC). The data base for the experiment consisted of references from a single issue of Nuclear Science Abstracts. The Special Subject Edition of UDC for Nuclear Science and…
Descriptors: Classification, Display Systems, Evaluation Methods, Indexing