"I saved my presentation in my personal drive on the server last night, but now I can't find it. It just seems to be gone. Can you get it back?" "It looks like the mail server is corrupted. When was the last backup?" These sorts of questions, whether from faculty, students, or IT staff, can be an IT nightmare, or they can set…

The Hypermedia Information System (HIS) is being developed under the auspices of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aviation Medicine's (AAM) Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance (HFAM) research program. The goal of the hypermedia project is to create new tools and methods for aviation-related information storage and retrieval.…

This book is a functional study of colleges and universities and is intended to aid: (1) those responsible for the documentation of these institutions including archivists, records managers, administrators, historians, librarians; and (2) those responsible for documentation within other institutions such as banks, hospitals, governments, etc. For…

Because experience with large information retrieval (IR) and database management (DBM) systems has shown that they are not adequate for the handling of textual material, two Swedish companies--Paralog and AU-System Network--have joined in a venture to develop a software package which combines features from IR and DMB systems to form a Text Data…

Two computerized searching techniques each prove to be about 80 percent accurate, thus offering better assistance to reporters searching for background information in newspaper morgues than are currently available. (RB)

This discussion of the laser videodisk begins by noting that it is an extremely high density visual storage medium that can supply instructors with vast visual warehouses to supplement instruction, whether through conventional group presentations or via individualized computer assisted instruction. Major features of the medium are then described…

In the past decade, the amount and variety of information on developing and managing comprehensive preservation programs has grown tremendously. This highly selective list of books, reports, journal and newsletter articles, and other sources is intended primarily as an introduction to the increasingly rich literature for archivists, special…

The Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) acquisition list provides sources of information on a wide range of topics, including military, black history, and government archives, collection development policy, classification of nonprint media, archival preservation and access, electronic records management, and other facets of information…

Our society is witnessing an ever-increasing sophistication in the development and use of computer and associated telecommunications technologies. Archivists are no longer faced with preserving relatively simply numeric files, but with maintaining a vast array of electronic information holdings ranging from complex databases to compound electronic…

This manual on microcomputer-based database management programs provides a description of the key characteristics of database software as well as guidelines for designing a database, uses of database programs, and selecting the right software. Three sets of concepts related to database management are listed and explained: creating a database,…

Online searchers who download large amounts of data into a single ASCII file often have difficulty fitting that large file into their MS-DOS word processors for post-processing. This paper gives step-by-step instructions for using EDLIN, a text editor for DOS files, to break up a large downloaded file into smaller files. (1 reference) (Author/EW)

This study is intended primarily to assist administrative officials and those responsible for administrative and management services in United Nations agencies, as well as similar officials in other international and regional organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, in the establishment and development of modern records management…

This report provides a list of 26,654 Level 3 documents, i.e., documents that have been announced in Resources in Education (RIE) which the authors have not granted ERIC permission to reproduce in either microfiche (Level 2) or microfiche or paper copy (Level 1). These documents are neither included in the ERIC Microfiche Collection nor available…

Describes a system for the management and analysis of chemical structure-biological activity data wherein the chemical structures, encoded in Wiswesser Line Notation, are checked for accuracy, stored, and retrieved by computer. Unification of description and activity of bio-systems. Structuring data files. (Author)

Reports on a series of programs that have been developed to process data bases, consisting of textual items, and to index and arrange (classify) the data items in accordance with an automatically generated classification system. (Author)