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Yu, Clement; Sharma, Prasoon; Meng, Weiyi; Qin, Yan – 2001
This paper considers the processing of digital library queries, consisting of a text component and a structured component in distributed environments. The paper concentrates on the processing of the structured component of a distributed query. A method is proposed to identify the databases that are likely to be useful for processing any given…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Information Processing
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Schultz, Louise – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1974
At BIOSIS, development of a retrieval system from the pragmatic viewpoint of providing viable self-supporting retrieval service from a data base of more than 2 million references has resulted in focusing attention on supporting the forumlation of the information need into an effective computer search specification. (JB)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases
Davis, Kathi Hogshead – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1983
The entity-relationship (ER) approach to database design is defined, and a specific example of an ER model (personnel-payroll) is examined. The requirements for converting ER models into specific database management systems are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Higher Education, Management Information Systems
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Taghva, Kazem; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Discusses the use of optical character recognition (OCR) for inputting documents in an information retrieval system and describes a study that used an OCR-generated database and its corresponding corrected version to examine query evaluation in the presence of noisy data. Scanning technology, recognition technology, and retrieval technology are…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Data Processing, Databases, Evaluation Methods
Auld, Dennis – 1982
Changes affecting the delivery of information over the next 10 years are going to be more numerous, farther reaching, and more rapid than those experienced in the last 10 years. Technological, legislative, economic, and sociological factors are all playing vital roles in shaping the environment within which database information services operate.…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Information Networks, Information Utilization
Jones, Calvin; And Others – 1983
This data file user's manual documents the procedures used to collect and process high school transcripts for a large sample of the younger cohort (1980 sophomores) in the High School and Beyond survey. The manual provides the user with the technical assistance needed to use the computer file and also discusses the following: (1) sample design for…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing
Bass, Clifford W.; Noonan, Barry Christopher – 1984
This manual was developed as part of a cooperative project between the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Division of Corrections' Green Bay Correctional Institution. As part of a new training program involving computers at Green Bay, the Director of Education approached the State Historical Society about developing a program…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Computer Software, Correctional Education, Data Processing
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Dept. of Documentation, Libraries, and Archives. – 1985
Intended for use by the Computerized Documentation System (CDS), the Unesco version of ISIS (Integrated Set of Information Systems)--originally developed by the International Labour Organization--was developed in 1975 and named CDS/ISIS. This system has a comprehensive collection of programs for input, management, and output, running in batch or…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases, Developed Nations
Bitter, Barbara W. – 1985
This paper describes one academic's experiences in utilizing a database management system, dBase II, with an Apple IIe microcomputer for record keeping and reporting. Initial problems created by processing data by hand or by a central computer system are described, and the selection process for a microcomputer purchase and software package (dBase…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases, Developmental Studies Programs
American Statistical Association, Washington, DC. – 1977
One of four projects conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) in cooperation with the Bureau of the Census, the conference explored the most important and fruitful research and development topics within the user-oriented software domain. Its objectives were to (1) develop recommendations on mechanisms to improve access to and use of…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases
Bearley, William L. – 1979
The future of information resources management requires new approaches to implementing systems which will include a type of data base management that frees users to solve data processing problems logically by telling the system what they want, together with powerful non-procedural languages that will permit communication in simple, concise…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Information Retrieval, Language Processing
Neville, Sandra H. – 1974
The University of New Mexico (UNM) General Library supports the locally-managed ERIC search service. During the 1973/1974 fiscal year, more than 3,000 searches were processed by the UNM Division of Computer and Information Science using a specially developed retrieval program, GANDALF (General Alpha-Numeric Direct Access Library Facility). This…
Descriptors: Citations (References), College Libraries, Computer Programs, Data Processing
McCracken, I. C.; And Others – 1973
The Inverted File Information Retrieval System (INFIRS), is a document search system which offers a comprehensive range of search facilities. It has been developed at the United Kingdom Chemical Information Service (UKCIS) as a general purpose retrieval tool, suitable for handling a wide variety of data-bases (both free-text and controlled…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Computer Storage Devices, Data Processing, Databases
Lincoln, Harry B. – 1969
This project comprises the second year's work of a 3-year research plan to develop computer programs, necessary data, and procedures for using the computer in a special field of musicology known as thematic indexing, and to explore the use of these techniques in other areas of music. During the second year, the research centered on three areas:…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases
Kinney, Paul W.; And Others – 1974
This report documents the development of three major products: (1) a Los Angeles County Dual Independent Map Encoding (DIME) File to which community college district boundaries have been special area coded; (2) a book-like listing of all house number ranges and street names and the college district and census tract they are found in; and (3) a…
Descriptors: College Admission, Community Colleges, Data Processing, Databases
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