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Kuo, Franklin F. – 1971
The Third Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems was held on 20-23 July 1971 in Cranfield, England. The report describes a number of the key papers presented at this conference. (Author)
Descriptors: Automation, Conference Reports, Indexing, Information Retrieval
PDF pending restorationDeutsch, Donald R.; Kraft, Donald H. – 1974
A framework is developed to evaluate expected search length, an important measure of an information storage and retrieval system's performance, as a function of the size of the information file and its organization in terms of indexing search structure. Previous research pertaining to search length by W.S. Cooper and others is surveyed and…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. – 1968
Project Intrex is a program of experiments intended to provide a foundation for the design of future information transfer systems, with the library of the future visualized as a computer-managed communications network. In order to discover the necessary facts, especially in the area of the user's interaction with the system, experimentation is…
Descriptors: Computers, Display Systems, Indexing, Information Processing
Morse, Philip M. – 1971
Efficient search of items in a store of information, such as books in a library, abstracts of articles, information in a computer data bank or the like, requires that the items most closely connected in content be close together, in order that a person looking for some particular information may concentrate his search on as small a part of the…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Storage Devices, Correlation, Indexing
BOHNERT, LEA M. – 1967
A RETRIEVAL MODEL WAS DEVELOPED FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH PURPOSES ON THE BASIS OF VARIED WORK EXPERIENCE AND ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL AND LIBRARY SERVICES. THE MODEL IS BASED ON SHANNON'S COMMUNICATION MODEL BUT IDENTIFIES THE WOULD BE READER, OR DESTINATION OF RECORDED MESSAGES, AS THE ACTIVATOR OF RETRIEVAL SERVICES. TWO MAIN…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Indexing, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. – 1968
This report describes the current status of Project INTREX experiments and provides a detailed technical record. Activities concentrating on the bibliographic access problem involve: (1) the investigation of a digitally-encoded, machine-manipulated augmented catalog, for which the task of preparing entries for 10,000 documents is about half…
Descriptors: Computers, Display Systems, Indexing, Information Processing
International Business Machines Corp., White Plains, NY. Data Processing Div. – 1971
The ways in which digital computers can be used in information storage and retrieval are presented in the language of the nonspecialist. Indexing methods, file organization, and search strategies are discussed and a brief bibliography containing 30 IBM publications is given. The manual is intended as a first reader for those interested in the…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases
PDF pending restorationDimitrov, Theodore D. – 1972
A total of 901 printed materials of several varieties--including books, papers, journal articles, conference reports and other documents--are listed. The majority of the works cited were published within the last few years, but some older materials are included; the collection as a whole is intended for librarians, information specialists, and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cataloging, Documentation, Indexing
