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Chenhall, Robert G. – 1975
Several museum information processing systems are discussed in relation to their underlying assumptions regarding museum information and networking needs that have resulted in inadequate service to some kinds of museums, particularly historical museums. Rather than any of these systems, a modular approach is proposed that would allow each museum…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Information Needs, Information Networks, Information Processing
Hardesty, Larry – 1974
The history, purpose, and operation of six computer-based information networks are described in general and nontechnical terms. In the introduction the many definitions of an information network are explored. Ohio College Library Center's network (OCLC) is the first example. OCLC began in 1963, and since early 1973 has been extending its services…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Computers, Databases, Information Networks

Sullo, Pasquale; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Discusses a reliability theoretic construct focusing on information produced to satisfy specified purposes or achieve preconceived objectives. When measures of system reliability and sensitivity analyses are performed, the result is a closer congruence between the objectives of the data producer and user requirements. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Diagrams, Information Needs, Information Networks, Information Processing

Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1976
Background information and an outline of major activities of the first EUDISED Working Party on Selection Criteria meeting of December 1976 are presented. The purpose of the EUDISED project is to coordinate information exchange activities in educational documentation and information in Europe. Criteria for selection of national projects to report,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Resources, Information Networks, Information Processing
Stillman, Rona B. – 1974
The problem of quality service assurance in a computer networking environment is addressed. In the absence of any direct, well-defined, quantitative measure of service quality and reliability, error collection and analysis is the only basis for service quality control. Therefore, mechanisms are described which facilitate reporting of operational…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Documentation, Information Networks
Zisa, Charles – 1969
In order to investigate the role meetings play in the dissemination of information in the language sciences, a questionnaire was devised to be sent to the participants in selected professional meetings. The responses from the participants in each meeting were to be analyzed to obtain a composite picture of the viewpoints represented, and the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Information Dissemination, Information Networks

MacNamara, Shane; Cunningham, Padraig; Byrne, John – Information Processing & Management, 1998
Analyzes a neural network for its ability to perform a task involving identification of the language entries in a 19th-century library catalog containing entries in 14 different languages. Compares the neural network's performance with that of trigrams and a suffix/morphology analysis; the trigrams prove to be superior. (AEF)
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Networks

Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System. – 1971
This report summarizes the final results of project activities to define a discipline-based information system program for the language sciences. The Center for Applied Linguistic's successful efforts to consolidate the relatively large and heterogeneous professional community are described in part one, Cooperation in the Language Sciences. Part…
Descriptors: Automation, Clearinghouses, Information Centers, Information Networks
JEM Research, Victoria (British Columbia). – 1982
In 1982 a study was conducted to analyze educational software information currently available to Canadian educators and to develop a plan for effectively collecting, organizing, and disseminating courseware information in the future. The teachers, students, librarians, educational resource personnel, and administrators included in the study…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Catalogs, Check Lists, Computer Programs
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). Documentation Center for Education in Europe. – 1971
This collection of technical studies concerning the European Documentation and Information System for Education (EUDISED) presents the problems of educational information, documentation, and dissemination in Europe. In the first report, transmitter-receiver relationships and the understanding of each other's roles and needs are discussed. The…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Indexing
Dervin, Brenda – 1977
Spurred by the impetus of the antipoverty programs of the 1960's, social science researchers and human service practitioners have focused upon the need for effective communication with the American urban poor. To this end, both groups have attempted to describe the context within which the urban poor receive and process messages in the hopes of…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Information Networks, Information Processing, Information Sources
Perry, Jessica, Ed.; Pietrzyk, Alfred, Ed. – 1971
The four chapters included in this report are based on LINCS project activities undertaken since 1968, with an emphasis on indexing tools in the language sciences and related problems. Chapter one, "Indexing Tools for the Language Sciences: Methodology," discusses the development of a LINCS thesaurus and its role in the LINCS network.…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, Indexing, Information Networks
Brickell, Henry M. – 1978
Presented is an analysis of nine agreements focused on three areas of common concern to dissemination specialists involved in the 1977 National Dissemination Forum: resources, linkage, research, evaluation and quality control. FORUM participants represented the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC of the National Institute of Education…
Descriptors: Education, Educational Research, Evaluation, Information Centers
Steward, W. Cecil; Menary, John A. – 1976
This research proposes a conceptual structure for an Environmental Information System. An Eco-Systems approach is employed maintaining whole units of analysis allowing for collection and storage of information of use to regional environmental planning and design. The suggested system design incorporates some of the basic concepts of the two…
Descriptors: Community Development, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1974
The feasibility study forms part of a project initiated in 1969 which also includes the UNESCO Thesaurus of science and technology policies, a provisional world list of periodicals dealing with science and technology policies and some 3,000 abstracts of literature on the subject. The purpose of the feasibility study is to define the managerial,…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Financial Support, Information Networks, Information Processing
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