This inventory is designed to classify avocational activities in a systematic manner. It is patterned after the "Dictionary of Occupational Terms," and can be used: (1) to evaluate patterns of activities, (2) to explore avocational activities, (3) to facilitate information retrieval, and (4) to serve as basis for classifying data. The first part…

Assessing specific information for value, one of the processes in information retrieval, is accomplished in this annotated bibliography by selection of the documents themselves and identification of the information therein. A new classification scheme for use in information retrieval was developed. This classification is a modification of…

For a 120 day search period 209 titles representing the acquisitions of a medical school library and 55 selected from this total suitable for a hospital library were studied in relation to the availability of bibliographic information from the two major sources, National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Library of Congress (LC). Data were compared…

Most existing automatic content analysis and indexing techniques are based on work frequency characteristics applied largely in an ad hoc manner. Contradictory requirements arise in this connection, in that terms exhibiting high occurrence frequencies in individual documents are often useful for high recall performance (to retrieve many relevant…

Three projects, each covering certain selected aspects of a potential information storage and retrieval system, were part of a study by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA) to explore various means for extending the usefulness of audiovisual materials. Project Dataset began the collection, classification, and cataloging of…

This thesaurus is a list of descriptors and identifiers for the international indexing and retrieving of documents and data in the field of education. The descriptors are placed in seven broad fields; context terms, administration and research terms, instructional terms, people, growing and learning, content, and things. The terms of each field…

The multilingual EUDISED thesaurus is a documentary language specially conceived for the processing of information regarding education in Council of Europe member states. It is intended first for use by abstracting and indexing institutions, especially those which define the contents of documents for retrieval by computer. But it is also designed…

The present study was divided into four components dealing with: (a) development of a student data tape containing both intellective and non-intellective data; (b) development of a computer-based retrieval system to be used with a student data tape; (c) development of a senior survey form to be used on graduates of Illinois institutions of higher…

A video system appears to have considerable potential as a means of disseminating visual information via a suitable interconnection network. In addition, modern video recording offers low cost, high capacity storage so that information could be stored in a convenient, easily retrieved form. The limiting factor to the usefulness of such a system is…

The Information Sciences section of ITT Research Institute (IITRI) has developed a Computer Search Center and is currently conducting a research project to explore computer searching of a variety of machine-readable data bases. The Center provides Selective Dissemination of Information services to academic, industrial and research organizations…

The aim of the conference was to hold a working discussion on problems essential to the building of thesauri, a uniform comprehension of which would make it possible to build them in a manner ensuring easier communication and exchange of information between information systems covering different ranges of subject matter, and using different…

Testimony given by Dr. John Rothman, Manager of Information Services, New York Times, before the General Subcommittee on Education ... describes the information retrieval system of the New York Times. He describes how the system will process material efficiently and economically, store it securely and in proper order, and make it available via…

The Text-Pac System is capable of generating indexes and bulletins to provide a current information service without the selectivity feature. Indexes of the accumulated data base may also be used as a basis for manual retrospective searching. The manual search involves searching computer-prepared indexes from a machine readable data base produced…

In terms of examples drawn from clinical and research data files, one of the objectives of this study is to illustrate several factors that have combined to delay the implementation of medical data bases. A primary factor has been inherent in the design of computer software. The languages currently on the market are procedural in nature: they…

A large number of Library of Congress cards are used to illustrate most of the "Anglo-American Cataloging Rules" (AACR). The rules are arranged in the same order as found in the AACR and are stated briefly along with one or more Library of Congress cards which illustrate that rule. Some rules are not illustrated because it is unlikely…