Aslib Proceedings: Volume 15 Issue 6
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CONFERENCE ON CO‐ORDINATE INDEXING SYSTEMS: London, 14th March 1963
Mr Raymond A. Wall, Librarian and Information Officer at the National Coal Board, Coal Research Establishment, took the chair. In opening the meeting, he said the time was…
The MECHANICS OF CO‐ORDINATE INDEXING AND ITS RELATION TO OTHER INDEXING METHODS
J.L. JOLLEYCo‐ordinate (sometimes called synthetic) indexing was in use for many years before it gained its present names. It had no name at all: it was simply the way people went about…
VOCABULARIES FOR CO‐ORDINATE SYSTEMS
B.C. VICKERYIndexing documents can be a purely mechanical operation or a highly intelligent one. It can be nothing more than a matter of listing the words in the title of the document, or it…
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ‘FEATURE CARD’ SYSTEMS. I
G.M. BOYDAfter the wealth of theory and principles that we have had this morning, I feel something like awe to think that I have been operating co‐ordinate indexing systems for about…
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ‘FEATURE CARD’ SYSTEMS. II
S.B. CHILDSThe Bristol Aircraft Limited Guided Weapons Department is a comparatively new organization with its own technical information and library services; its modern Technical…
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ‘FEATURE CARD’ SYSTEMS. III
A. JOHNSONOur first excursion in co‐ordinate indexing occurred on a modest scale in 1948 when we used it to index some correspondence that had hitherto provided somewhat of a headache to…
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ‘FEATURE CARD’ SYSTEMS. IV
DAVID G. SHEDDENThe system, devised initially to satisfy the needs of our Test Department, sought to locate, in the shortest possible time, vital information from a backlog of about twelve…