THE AVAILABILITY OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON HAD SUGGESTED THEIR POSSIBLE USE AS INDEXERS FOR INDEXING DOCUMENTS FOR THE AEROSPACE MATERIALS INFORMATION CENTER (AMIC). A STUDENT HAD BEEN EMPLOYED TWO YEARS AGO AND INFORMALLY TRAINED IN INDEXING. THE SUCCESS OF THAT EXPERIENCE, THE SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF A CONTROLLED VOCABULARY, AND…

CITATION INDEXES, IN COMBINATION WITH REGULAR INDEXES, ARE CREATING NEW METHODS OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, WHICH USE SOME MEASURE OF CONNECTION OR ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A GIVEN BASE OF ARTICLES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS IN A COLLECTION. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF SUCH A MEASURE ARE--(1) IT SHOULD BE INDIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF LINKS IN A CHAIN OF…

GUIDELINES AND CONVENTIONS ARE PRESENTED FOR THE SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE TECHNICAL SUBJECT INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL TERMINOLOGY AND THE DISPLAY OF THIS TERMINOLOGY IN A THESAURUS FORMAT. THESE CONVENTIONS WERE DEVELOPED BY PROJECT LEX, THE DOD TECHNICAL THESAURUS TASK FORCE, IN COOPERATION WITH THE ENGINEERS JOINT COUNCIL. A DISCUSSION IS GIVEN OF…

This abridged adaptation from the BRS System Reference Manual identifies and briefly explains the meanings and functions of the logical operators used to retrieve information from the BRS system. (FM)

This annual report presents evaluative descriptions of meeting activities and recommendations to achieve goals of providing high quality services and activities to the membership. It also includes information on the membership, the budget, group publications, and other professional activities. (RAA)

This paper introduces ERIC searchers to the use of clearinghouse codes as search keys and includes a brief history of ERIC Clearinghouses, information on how codes are assigned, the use of clearinghouse codes in the WISE Search Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and some examples of potential uses of codes in searching. Examples in…

Wastewater treatment, microbiology, biochemistry, and engineering are the major subject areas covered in this preliminary thesaurus designed for use in a private information retrieval system. The thesaurus was developed through meetings where each descriptor was discussed, necessary scope notes were written, definition and cross references were…

This publication contains abstracts and indexes to selected documents announced in RESOURCES IN EDUCATION from 1973 to 1975. Documents indexed include instructional materials, research reports, teaching guides, and other items. The compilation is designed to serve as an effective tool to assist teachers, researchers, curriculum developers,…

This paper describes research being carried out at the Ohio State University leading toward a general theory of information flow and analysis. The objectives of this program sponsored by the National Science Foundation include the following: (1) to develop a theory of information flow and analysis; (2) to identify important parameters and…

The micrographics terms used by the National Reprographic Centre for documentation (NRCd) to index material which appears in the Reprographics Quarterly and other NCRd information system components are compiled in this thesaurus. The terms are not defined, except to note the meanings of some terms in the context of the NRCd system. Directions for…

Proposed is a measure of indexing consistency based on the concept of "fuzzy sets." By this procedure a higher consistency value is assigned if indexers agree on the more important terms than if they agree on less important terms. Measures of the quality of an indexer's work and exhaustivity of indexing are also proposed. Experimental data on…

These guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual scientific and technical thesauri for information retrieval are published in an attempt to lay the basis for compatability, both at the present and in the future, of thesauri that are being elaborated simultaneously in most of the disciplines of science, basic as well as…

This memorandum describes a set of subroutines for the IBM 7040/44 computers for reading textual material with complex formats and coding conventions--questionnaires, library catalog cards, etc.--from any external medium into the high-speed store of the machine. Different kinds of information in the input are recognized by explicit markers,…

This report studies and classifies, according to distinct user-oriented features, the various computer-aided systems developed for storage and retrieval of information in a wide range of fields. Such features are described and evaluated to determine the nature of characteristics that have a strong bearing on the relative success of various query…

This publication contains abstracts and indexes to selected documents announced in RESEARCH IN EDUCATION from 1966 to 1972. Documents indexed include instructional materials, research reports, teaching guides, and other items. The compilation is designed to serve as an effective tool to assist teachers, researchers, curriculum developers,…