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Peer reviewedWatters, Carolyn; Shepherd, Michael A. – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Discusses the shift of information access from a data-centered to a user-centered model and describes the Daltext system, a prototype user-centered information system that allows the user to determine how the data will be viewed (i.e., within a datastream model, a set model, a relational model, and/or a hierarchical model). (Contains 30…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Processing, Database Design, Information Retrieval
Shepherd, Michael A.; Watters, Carolyn – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992
Characterizes information retrieval systems in a network environment from a user's perspective along two axes: query and presentation. Several examples of early, current, and developing information retrieval systems are considered within this framework, and Daltext, a prototype system to support research on text-based retrieval systems, is…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Networks, Database Design, Information Networks
Peer reviewedJantz, Ronald – College & Research Libraries, 2003
Describes the methodology and results of the log analysis for the Alcohol Studies Database (ASDB), a domain-specific database supported by the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University Libraries. The objectives were to better understand user search behavior, to analyze failure rates, and to develop approaches for improving the user…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Behavior Patterns, Computer Interfaces, Data Analysis
Pettersson, Rune – 1993
Different kinds of pictorial databases are described with respect to aims, user groups, search possibilities, storage, and distribution. Some specific examples are given for databases used for the following purposes: (1) labor markets for artists; (2) document management; (3) telling a story; (4) preservation (archives and museums); (5) research;…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Database Design, Databases, Documentation
Download full textInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
Five papers from the sessions of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 1992 conference on classification, indexing, and cataloging are presented. Three papers deal with knowledge classification as it relates to database design, as it is practiced in India, and in a worldwide context. The remaining two papers focus…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Conference Papers, Database Design
Murphy, Catherine – 1992
Computerized systems have dramatically altered the way that information can be organized, published, searched and retrieved. This paper: (1) examines the components of subject access in online systems; (2) identifies the potential for subject access enhancements, such as enriching the contents of the database and improving user-system interaction,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Database Design, Elementary Secondary Education
