Aslib Proceedings: Volume 19 Issue 11
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ASLIB CALENDAR 1967
November WED.29. Chemical Group one‐day meeting on case studies of computers applied to information work.
COMMUNICATION: A TEACH‐IN FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS AND DOCUMENTALISTS: A joint Meeting of Aslib and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Friday 21st April and Friday 30th June 1967
W.E. BATTENI had the pleasure of taking the chair at the second presentation of this teach‐in (having presented a brief paper—not here reported—at the first). It has been decided to base…
The RETRIEVAL PROCESS
B.C. VICKERYBefore documentary information can be used, a complex series of operations have to take place: 1. information must be recorded in documents, 2. each document must be stored with…
WHAT COMPUTERS WILL DO
STANLEY GILLMy objective is to give a thumbnail sketch of the computing art, and perhaps to kill a few fallacies on the way. One fallacy which I will tackle right away is the idea that…
COMPARISON OF The PHILOSOPHY OF INDEXING TEXT WITH THAT OF INDEXING STRUCTURAL FORMULAE
A.K. KENTAt the Chemical Society Research Unit in Nottingham we are providing a service to some two hundred and sixty research chemists in which we search magnetic tapes produced by…
The USE OF The COMPUTER IN INFORMATION WORK
HELEN TOWNLEYThe type of search programme we can use depends on the way in which the information is stored within the computer. There are two principle techniques for arranging the files of…
USE OF PACKAGE PROGRAMS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING
E. MASSEYThe main aspects of Information Processing are collection, file creation (including indexing), analysis, retrieval, presentation and dissemination. The term ‘Information…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir, Before reading Mr Jolley's paper on co‐ordinate indexing, I certainly believed that to know more, about anything, is indeed pleasant. Now I am not so sure.
SELECTIONS FROM The RECENT LITERATURE
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