Standards for a User-System Interface Language in Online Retrieval Systems: The Challenge and the Responsibility.

Atherton, Pauline

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Standards for a User-System Interface Language in Online Retrieval Systems: The Challenge and the Responsibility

Atherton, Pauline

Online Review, 2, 1, 57-61, Mar 78

It is proposed that the conversational language used in interactive retrieval systems should become standard, at least as far as the technical terms and symbols used by the user are concerned. If that effort is successful, a standards efforts in the area of a code of practice or recommended methods for operation could be developed. (Author)

Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Man Machine Systems, Online Systems, Standards

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Language: English

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