An invitation to participate in this panel discussion was sent to official representatives of organizations which had an expressed interest in information networks. Since some of the represented international bodies had started preliminary planning for network communication, the discussion was centered around systems design concepts. However, as…

This is the seventh in a series of eight reports of a research study for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) on the effective utilization of bibliographic data bases in machine-readable form. The report addresses the problems of converting input data (in source formats) from various sources, both external and internal to NAL, to a common…

The progress reports on the second STINFO (Scientific and Technical Information) Conference show developments in various areas of research. The conference stressed the importance of past and future improvements in technology, management, user analysis, coordination with governmental agencies on various levels, evaluation methods, selective…

After a three-year study of scientific and technical communications, the Scientific and Technical Communication (SATCOM) Committee concluded that future communication needs will necessitate strengthening the diverse information network now being employed. The SATCOM Report attempted to do this by indicating areas in which greater effort was…

A simulation program is presented which considers the effect of response time upon the utilization of a multiple node information system. Specific examples of such systems are presented. They include: (1) information networks, (2) library systems, (3) multi-level files. The simulation characterizes users (in terms of their information requirements…

The contents of this report are designed to aid the researcher concerned with concept learning. This publication contains: (1) rationale and strategy for compiling the bibliography, (2) a definition of the word concept, (3) a system for classifying articles by their content, (4) a bibliography of articles dealing with concept learning from 51…

At present there is no comprehensive source of data regarding educational technology. Base-line statistical information on collections and equipment, as well as their unique impact on other institutional cost factors, must be established if there is to be adequate evaluation of their impact on instructional practices. This report defines the field…

This is one of the outcomes of the work of the Massachusetts Evaluation Service Center for Occupational Education (ESCOE). This publication is intended to serve primarily as a user's guide for facilitators and instructors associated with ESCOE who seek to use and implement the Synthesized Objective Package. Besides a short explanation of the…

This outline provides a guide for the instructor of unit record equipment at the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade levels. The first week is spent reviewing punched card principles, and the remaining hours are devoted to learning the purpose, operation, and principles of control panel wiring for the interpreter, reproducing punch, accounting…

An algorithm for generating a structural syntactic surrogate of English text is defined in this paper. The "performance" of the surrogate is judged empirically according to adherence to the following criteria: (1) The surrogate is an organized representation of natural language text; (2) The algorithm which produces the surrogate is…

The Design of Information Systems in the Social Sciences (DISISS) is a research project with the objective of carrying out research necessary for the effective design of information systems in the social sciences, whether by the creation of new systems or the modification of existing systems. This working paper explores the methods available for…

The purposes of this study are to identify and define viable remote browsing techniques and the requirements for an interactive medical information system that would permit the use of such techniques. The main emphasis is in the areas of: (1) remote viewing of page material; and (2) remote interrogation of fact banks with question-answering…

The theme of the 14th Annual Military Librarians Workshop is: "Department of Defense Libraries in Transition." The National War College and the Industrial College libraries seek to see what support they can give each other. The ten workshops are: (1) Standardization of Bibliographic Data, (2) Evolution of Technical Reports, (3) DOD…

This paper deals with the organization of two important areas which interact strongly: information science and decision-making. Both are commonly and extensively used in a variety of ways and share an equally commonly and extensively used variety of definitions. This paper deals with the mutual interaction between information science and…

The main purpose of the experiment was to answer the question whether broad or narrow terms function most effectively in the retrieval of relevant documents. The answer depends on what the user of the retrieval system wants, his wants being expressed in terms of stated precision-recall preference, or by the exact number of relevant documents he…