Describes the evolution of an electronic document management system for the World Bank, including record-keeping components, and how the Pittsburgh requirements for evidence in record keeping were used to evaluate it. Discusses imaging technology for scanning paper records, metadata for retrieval and record keeping, and extending the system to…

Discusses problems associated with manually created or maintained hyperdocument links and the need for automatic methods, describes a system for the automatic detection and management of various links, and presents a case study of a World Wide Web hyperbase for the Australian parliament. (Author/LRW)

Presents an efficient method for extracting collocations from corpora, which uses the cost criteria measure and a tree-based data structure. Proposes a bilingual collocation concordancer, a tool that provides language learners with collocation correspondences between a native and foreign language. (Eight references) (Author/CK)

Considers complaints about the usability in the human-computer interaction aspect of information retrieval and discusses information visualization, the Online Library of Information Visualization Environments, hyperbolic information structure, subject searching, real-world applications, relational databases and hyperbolic trees, and the future of…

Describes the common and distinguishing features of coauthorship trends and patterns in selected science fields. Analyzes the relation between coauthorship schemes and other bibliometric features such as publication activity and citation impact; concludes that the extent of coauthorship varies among fields; and suggests implications for database…

Describes the AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium) Library, a digital database that includes works of art from museums in the United States and Canada whose images are licensed to educational institutions. Discusses quality; uses for studio art and art history; search capabilities; interdisciplinary uses; cultural works; and information included…

Chronicles the need for and development of an interdisciplinary, integrated neighborhood-level database for Boston, Massachusetts, discussing database content and potential applications of this database to a range of criminal justice problems and initiatives (e.g., neighborhood crime patterns, needs assessment, and program planning and…

Discusses a new template-automaton-based knowledge database system for an interactive intelligent language tutoring system (ILTS) for Japanese-English translation, whereby model translations as well as a taxonomy of bugs extracted from ill-formed translations typical of nonnative learners are collected. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the relevance of communication, meaning, and identity in putting information work into a cultural context. The process of information seeking is discussed, the mediation of communication formats and devices in determining meaning is described, and implications for information specialists are suggested. (11 references) (LRW)

Describes the advantages of a prototype retrieval system that uses statistically based ranked retrieval of records rather than traditional boolean methods, especially for end users. Several new techniques are also discussed including bit mapping, pruning, methods of building inverted files, and types of search engine. (26 references) (EAM)

Presents an approach to automatic matching and linkage of citations between databases which applied 14 coding techniques and measured their effectiveness in terms of efficiency of retrieval of duplicates with minimal false hits, reliability, and performance. (EAM)

Intended to provide an alternative to typical lists of "best sources," this bibliography annotates general reference sources as well as those in areas of business, science, and technology; fine arts and literature; medicine and health; and social sciences and humanities. Sources include print, CD-ROM, and online formats. A reference book survey…

Describes research which examined whether there are clusters of non-library and information science (LIS) databases that contain citations of interest to LIS researchers, the conceptual relationships of those databases, and approaches to gathering data that might be used to develop search paths and database selection guides on particular LIS…

Observes that preparing and searching a database will help students analyze, synthesize, and evaluate data, but stresses the need to distinguish between teaching how to process information and how to think. Sees the database as a tool in teaching social studies but maintains that the primary goal is to teach thinking skills. (CH)

Describes an interface mechanism called "complex view support" to be used with a relational database system (RDBS) in supporting increasingly complex distributed environments in automated library systems. The interface system refers queries to multidimensional tables as well as to flat tables on RDBS and is shown to efficiently support…