Scientists and engineers have solved their wordage and most other information problems through the creation and use of information analysis centers (IAC). IAC's synthesize, analyze, and compress pertinent information so that knowledge transfer remains effective. (Author/NH)

The terse conclusion--a brief statement written by one versed in a field after reading a document--is suggested as one answer to the problems of too much to read and of reading many foreign languages. (26 references) (Author/NH)

Terse conclusions which are concerned with the meaning of a document rather than the subject scope, have replaced abstracts at Hooker Research Center for progress reports. These terse conclusions are circulated to the entire staff and are also intended to aid in management decisions. (9 references) (Author/NH)

Precise recommendations were submitted to Unesco by the experts attending: the need for exchange of informat on, for improved bibliographic control of Latin American educational literature, for specialist staff training and for organization of a network of educational documentation centers. (JB)

By the end of 1976, the Korea Scientific and Technological Information Center, (KORSTIC) will be subscribing to 5,000 titles of current journals, be able to process 300,000 items of information and provide 100,000 cases of reprography service annually. By 1976, KORSTIC's services will be computerized. (Author/NH)

Despite the continued existence of constraints, the use of miniaturization in documentation is destined to increase substantially over the next decade. (17 references) (Author/NH)

Recommends control steps that extension workers take in documenting their work including such items as: (1) handing-over notes, (2) district notebooks, and (3) special Problems in developing countries. (MF)

A brief survey of training courses for users of documentation in various parts of the world, describing the programs of training and teaching methods is presented. (Author)

In the areas of adult development and adult learning, research is seldom confined to observable behavior. Therefore, documentary records of human experience should be used. (JOW)

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), an international collaboration aimed at producing a common encoding scheme for complex texts, examines the requirement for generality versus the requirement to handle specialized text types. Discusses how documents and users tax the limits of fixed schemes requiring flexible extensible encoding to support…

Presents a method for augmenting a Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) document repository with database functionality. Introduces an implementation method for a complex-object modeling technique, and describes interface techniques tailored for text databases and concepts for a Structured Document Database Management System (SDDBMS)…

Discussion of Web linking behavior and how to define a Web document focuses on a study of United Kingdom university Web sites that investigated the association between research productivity of the university and the number of incoming links from its peers' Web sites. Defines three alternative heuristics for counting links. (LRW)

Discusses the relationship and value of semiotics to the established domains of information science. Highlights include documentation; computer operations; the language of computing; automata theory; linguistics; speech and writing; and the written language as a unifying principle for the document and the computer. (93 references) (LRW)

Addresses three issues of library science in the United States during the 20th century: (1) use of European documentation efforts; (2) the "information science versus library science" argument; and (3) technological innovation in librarianship. Also examines the role of technology in library science at the University of Chicago's…