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Turner, James M. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Discussion of indexing moving image documents at the shot level focuses on a study conducted at the National Film Board of Canada. Popular terms supplied by users were compared with terms assigned by professional indexers in the source stockshot collection. Results suggest that indexing images using preiconographic (ofness) and iconographic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Films, Foreign Countries, Indexing
Beswick, Norman W. – 1972
A resource center is an agency for stimulating the active creation and use of a resource collection, including these six elements: production of home-made resources; selection and acquisition of other resources; classification and indexing for retrieval; storage; use, including guidance, lending, etc.; and evaluation and weeding. It was the charge…
Descriptors: Classification, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Bidd, Donald; And Others – 1984
This report describes the development and operations of FORMAT, a Canadian database system designed to achieve comprehensive national bibliographic control of Canadian-produced audiovisual materials. FORMAT's developmental criteria are outlined, including its emphasis on Canadian-produced audiovisual documents, French/English bilingualism,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Automation, Cataloging, Databases
Peer reviewedJohnson, Sandra; Maher, Brian – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1984
Outlines implementation and uses of the computerized question-banking system of the thesaurus-linked browse procedure used by APU National Assessment in Science Programme. The ROOT Thesaurus, a comprehensive indexing and searching tool for technological applications, is described and its modifications are discussed as the basis for the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedChow, Wing S. – Information Development, 1992
Describes a microcomputer-based microfilm management system that has been developed in a medium-sized manufacturing firm's library in Hong Kong. The system configuration is explained, a design and selection plan for a microfilm format is discussed, a selection plan for hardware is described, and an indexing system is explained. (nine references)…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Decision Support Systems, Foreign Countries, Indexing
Peer reviewedSieverts, Eric G.; And Others – Electronic Library, 1992
The fourth in a series of articles on the evaluation of microcomputer software for information storage and retrieval, conducted by the Netherlands Association of Users of Online Information Systems (VOGIN), presents test results for six indexing and full-text retrieval programs--Ask-It, KAware, Texplore, TextMaster, WordCruncher, and ZYindex. (13…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
Booth, Pat F.; South, M. L. – 1982
Designed to be a foundation work, this book about information storage and retrieval includes discussions of theory as well as descriptions of practice. It is intended for: (1) students at both the graduate and non-graduate level who are beginning formal studies of librarianship/information science; (2) staff of library/information units who have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Indexes, Indexing
Rabitti, Fausto, Ed. – 1986
Intended to identify and encourage research, development, and applications of information retrieval, the principal objective of this conference was to provide an international forum to promote an understanding of current research and to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experiences in information retrieval systems. Introductory material for…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Developed Nations, Display Systems, Expert Systems
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
The seven papers in this collection describe parliamentary library services and activities in both developed and developing countries: (1) "The Electronic Catalogue of the Library of the Deutscher Bundestag" (Ernst Kohl, West Germany); (2) "Library of the Assembly of the Republic: Modernization Efforts" (A. Cabral, Portugal);…
Descriptors: Archives, Building Design, Cataloging, Databases
Peer reviewedAl-Kharashi, Ibrahim A.; Evens, Martha W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Describes experiments in Arabic information retrieval using 29 queries against a base of 355 bibliographic records. Using roots and stems as index terms worked better than words, and the root performed as well as or better than the stem at low recall levels and definitely better at high recall levels. (Contains 30 references.) (KRN)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arabic, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis
Download full textWitten, Ian H.; Nevill-Manning, Craig G.; Cunningham, Sally Jo – 1996
This paper discusses the indexing, collection, and maintenance processes, as well as the retrieval interface, to public digital libraries. The paper begins by briefly surveying both Internet technical report collections and World Wide Web search engines. It goes on to describe a prototype digital library, the New Zealand Digital Library for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Computer Interfaces, Computer Science
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
