1.2 billion users in Facebook, 17 million articles in Wikipedia, and 190 million tweets per day have demanded significant increase of information processing through Internet in recent years. Similarly life sciences and bioinformatics also have faced issues of processing Big data due to the explosion of publicly available genomic information…

The mid-twentieth century marked a shift in Americans' fundamental orientation toward information. Rather than news or knowledge, information became a disembodied quantum--strings of ones and zeros processed, increasingly, by complex machines. This dissertation examines how Americans became acquainted with "information", as newly conceived by…

This article attempts to offer an overview of the current changes that are being experienced in the management of audio-visual documentation and those that can be forecast in the future as a result of the migration from analogue to digital information. For this purpose the documentary chain will be used as a basis to analyse individually the tasks…

Experiments with two distinct collections, using three levels of indexing exhaustively for both documents and requests, show that substantially the same performance is obtained for very different levels of document indexing, if suitable choices are made of request level. (6 references) (Author)

The development of the removal of rigidity in library classification is traced from the Enumerative Classification of DC (1876) through the Nearly-Faceted Classification of UDC (1896), the rigidly, though fully faceted version of CC (1933), the generalized faceted structure of version 2 of CC (1949), down to the Freely Faceted Classification of…

A generalized Keynesian "general equilibrium" model, derived largely from macropolitical considerations, is presented. (Author)

The purpose of this standard is to present an organized body of concepts and their corresponding terms relevant to the field of information processing, and to identify relationships among the concepts and among terms. The body of the vocabulary is the collection of the entries. The symbol "(SC1)" is used to identify definitions agreed…

Chemical Abstracts Service developed and expanded a computer-based Chemical Registry System and operated it on a large-scale pilot basis. Some 1,744,319 registry transactions were made, resulting in the addition of 988,806 unique substances to the Registry Files. Continual effort has been made to improve computer capabilities and procedures, add…

This Annual Report describes in detail the work performed during the first year of Task III of Contract NSF-C414 and the present status of Task III work. The programs and achievements described constitute the first significant efforts to develop a user-oriented, cooperative program between major secondary scientific and technical information…

Intended as an international medium for the exchange of ideas and experience in scientific and technical information, this journal publishes scholarly papers from various countries. The first issue contains: (1) articles on communication in science, (2) a book review, (3) a column intended to clarify concepts and terminology in the field of…

This report explores the bodies of literature pertinent to the economics of information, a topic of growing interest to the information community and to economists. As used here, economics of information refers to the concepts and tools of economics as they apply to information activities. The report consists of (1) a short section on the…

This report explores the bodies of literature pertinent to the economics of information, a topic of growing interest to the information community and to economists. As used here, economics of information refers to the concepts and tools of economics as they apply to information activities. The report consists of (1) a short section on the…

DATADRAW is a command language, written in FORTRAN IV, to manipulate stacks, queues, lists and trees, and to display them on the CDC 252 scope system attached to a CDC 6600. A DATADRAW primer is given, and the algorithms for updating and displaying structures are described. It is noted that DATADRAW was designed to be a simple command language…

This 440-item annotated bibliography presents a highly selected list of documents which focus on information theory applications to information science, information processing, or information systems analysis and design. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author and a subject/keyword index is provided.

This paper defines the relationship between linguistics and information science in terms of a common interest in natural language. The concept of a natural language information system is introduced as a framework for reviewing automated language processing efforts by computational linguists and information scientists. (96 references) (Author)