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Publication date: 27 July 2010

An appreciation - Brian Vickery

Jack Meadows

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 66 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/jd.2010.27866daa.002
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 March 1988

B.C. VICKERY: BIBLIOGRAPHY

HARRY EAST and AMBER ADAMS

Brian Vickery has been a prolific writer as this list — which covers a period of forty active years — indicates. There are almost certainly omissions. He has, for example…

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Brian Vickery has been a prolific writer as this list — which covers a period of forty active years — indicates. There are almost certainly omissions. He has, for example, been an incisive if gentle reviewer, in this and other journals, of the contemporary literature. Only a few of his extended reviews are included here. The bibliography illustrates the breadth of Brian's professional interests: from Bradford's law in the forties to expert systems in the eighties, with significant contributions to contemporary developments throughout the interim. The range is formidable and characteristic.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 44 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026825
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 June 1994

Information Services: Fundamental Issues

Carmel Maguire, Edward John Kazlauskas and Anthony D. Weir

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Information Services for Innovative Organizations
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-0562(1994)000094A004
ISBN: 978-0-12465-030-5

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Publication date: 1 March 1988

BRIAN VICKERY A PERSONAL MEMOIR

DOUGLAS J. FOSKETT

During the years following the end of World War II, there was a considerable expansion of library services in industry, and some of the scientists engaged in this activity…

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During the years following the end of World War II, there was a considerable expansion of library services in industry, and some of the scientists engaged in this activity sought to establish strong links with professional librarians, particularly in universities and city libraries with collections of scientific literature. Among them were Denis Arnold, Wilfred Ashworth and Brian Vickery, and it was at a conference of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association that I first met both Arnold and Vickery. It was my good fortune to discover very quickly a community of interest with Brian, based on our industrial experience, and a similar outlook on a wide range of matters social and political.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 44 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026824
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 March 1988

THE ROLE OF CLASSIFICATION IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: ACTION AND THOUGHT IN THE CONTRIBUTION OF BRIAN VICKERY

E.J. COATES

An assessment of B.C. Vickery's contribution to the development of classification for retrieval. This has been both practical and intellectual. On the practical side his…

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An assessment of B.C. Vickery's contribution to the development of classification for retrieval. This has been both practical and intellectual. On the practical side his work in the early CRG and elsewhere enhanced the status of classification for retrieval as a significant field of study. On the intellectual side he demonstrated the use of his own elaborated version of Ranganathan's facets for the purposes of western special libraries. He analysed the essential features of retrieval systems generally as the required framework within which classification could usefully play a part. The paper discusses some remaining ‘grey areas’ in faceted classification, classificatory fragments implicit in many thesauri, and the value for expository purposes of a mildly polemic approach to issues in classification.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 44 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026826
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 27 April 2010

Brian Vickery and the uneasy information scientists

David Bawden

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 66 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/jd.2010.27866caa.001
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 January 2006

Structure and function in retrieval

Alan Gilchrist

This paper forms part of the series “60 years of the best in information research”, marking the 60th anniversary of the Journal of Documentation. It aims to review the…

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This paper forms part of the series “60 years of the best in information research”, marking the 60th anniversary of the Journal of Documentation. It aims to review the influence of Brian Vickery's 1971 paper, “Structure and function in retrieval languages”. The paper is not an update of Vickery's work, but a comment on a greatly changed environment, in which his analysis still has much validity.

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A commentary on selected literature illustrates the continuing relevance of Vickery's ideas.

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Generic survey and specific reference are still the main functions of retrieval languages, with minor functional additions such as relevance ranking. New structures are becoming increasingly significant, through developments such as XML. Future development in artificial intelligence hold out new prospects still.

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The paper shows the continuing relevance of “traditional” ideas of information science from the 1960s and 1970s.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 62 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410610642020
ISSN: 0022-0418

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  • Information retrieval
  • Classification
  • Controlled languages
  • Knowledge processes

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Publication date: 1 March 1988

PRECEDENT‐SETTING CONTRIBUTIONS TO MODERN CLASSIFICATION

PHYLLIS A. RICHMOND

With preceding chapters setting the stage, this one will provide a view of Brian C. Vickery's accomplishments from the vantage point of several thousand miles. His career…

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With preceding chapters setting the stage, this one will provide a view of Brian C. Vickery's accomplishments from the vantage point of several thousand miles. His career in information science has been an impressive one. What has made it so? To answer that question, it is first necessary to examine his research accomplishments, then their impact, which has spread farther than might have been anticipated at the time of their publication.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 44 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026829
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 February 1993

ONLINE SEARCH INTERFACE DESIGN

BRIAN VICKERY and ALINA VICKERY

There is a huge amount of information and data stored in publicly available online databases that consist of large text files accessed by Boolean search techniques. It is…

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There is a huge amount of information and data stored in publicly available online databases that consist of large text files accessed by Boolean search techniques. It is widely held that less use is made of these databases than could or should be the case, and that one reason for this is that potential users find it difficult to identify which databases to search, to use the various command languages of the hosts and to construct the Boolean search statements required. This reasoning has stimulated a considerable amount of exploration and development work on the construction of search interfaces, to aid the inexperienced user to gain effective access to these databases. The aim of our paper is to review aspects of the design of such interfaces: to indicate the requirements that must be met if maximum aid is to be offered to the inexperienced searcher; to spell out the knowledge that must be incorporated in an interface if such aid is to be given; to describe some of the solutions that have been implemented in experimental and operational interfaces; and to discuss some of the problems encountered. The paper closes with an extensive bibliography of references relevant to online search aids, going well beyond the items explicitly mentioned in the text. An index to software appears after the bibliography at the end of the paper.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 49 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026912
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 January 1987

A REFERENCE AND REFERRAL SYSTEM USING EXPERT SYSTEM TECHNIQUES

ALINA VICKERY, HELEN BROOKS, BRUCE ROBINSON and BRIAN VICKERY

The issues involved in the construction of an expert system for retrieval are described, together with some of the techniques that have been used in artificial…

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The issues involved in the construction of an expert system for retrieval are described, together with some of the techniques that have been used in artificial intelligence and information science to tackle them. The solutions adopted by the prototype expert system PLEXUS are described, with particular reference to the semantic processing that takes place. The paper concludes with a discussion of continuing issues on which work is currently proceeding.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 43 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026798
ISSN: 0022-0418

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