Aslib Proceedings: Volume 51 Issue 1

Ranganathan and the Net: using facet analysis to search and organise the World Wide Web

David Ellis, Ana Vasconcelos

This paper documents the continuing relevance of facet analysis as a technique for searching and organising World Wide Web based materials. The two approaches underlying WWW…

Send a boy – or dial it yourself? numbering for the information society

Ralph Adam

Numbering and addressing are key features of telecommunications: without them, the Global Information Society cannot exist. As the demand for new, and more innovative, services…

Football information services: fanzines, “Match of the Day” and the modem

Richard Green

The character, growth and demand for football information services in England and Wales is examined. Questionnaires were sent to football clubs and supporters to investigate the…

The News International Newspapers’ intranet

Gertrud Erbach, Lynda Iley

Since 1985, News International has maintained an in‐house database which provides access to several daily and Sunday newspaper titles and has developed into a powerful research…