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Peer reviewedHoogcarspel, Annelies – Information Technology and Libraries, 1994
Describes the "Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities" that provides bibliographic information through RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) for electronic texts in the humanities. Highlights include adaptation of MARC format; access points; search strategies; and unresolved issues in the bibliographic…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Copyrights, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPollard, Richard – Information Technology and Libraries, 1988
Describes a study that examined the ability of the dBase database management system to perform secondary key retrieval on multivalued data items. The results are presented as time cost relative to the number of matching records, and situations in which a different management system might be appropriate are identified. (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Database Management Systems, Evaluation Criteria, Indexing
Peer reviewedSmith, Elizabeth S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1993
Describes the evolution of computerized information storage and retrieval from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings in theoretical works on logic by George Boole, to the applications of Boole's logic to switching circuits by Claude Shannon in the 1930s, to the development of coordinate indexing by Mortimer Taube in the 1940s and 1950s. (Contains…
Descriptors: Coordinate Indexes, Electric Circuits, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedBrooks, Diane – Information Technology and Libraries, 1988
Review of the literature on international computerized indexing systems for visual materials also describes technologies available for reproducing images, highlighting videotex, videodisk, and digital storage. Advances in the ability to interface these technologies with each other and with online retrieval systems are discussed. (76 notes with…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Graphics, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedQin, Jian; Wesley, Kathryn – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998
This survey of 1037 World Wide Web objects on polymer chemistry collected by four search engines (AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Webcrawler) examined document information and use of meta fields, images, and chemical names. Found that the use of meta fields was not widespread and that knowledge of meta fields in HTML varied among Web object creators.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Chemical Nomenclature, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedTunender, Heather; Ervin, Jane – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998
Character strings were planted in a World Wide Web site (Project Whistlestop) to test indexing and retrieval rates of five Web search tools (Lycos, infoseek, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite). It was found that search tools indexed few of the planted character strings, none indexed the META descriptor tag, and only Excite indexed into the 3rd-4th site…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation
Peer reviewedDrabenstott, Karen M.; Weller, Marjorie S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1996
This article studies the performance of online catalog user queries involving personal names and recommends system improvements based on the results. It examines various personal name queries, the construction of bibliographic data, and subject headings. Testing done on an experimental online catalog found search tree designs to reduce system…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Computer System Design, Cues, Data Analysis
