A User Interface for Multiple Retrieval Systems.

Teskey, Niall; And Others

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Publication Date: 1987

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A User Interface for Multiple Retrieval Systems.

Teskey, Niall; And Others

Online Review, v11 n5 p283-84,286-96 Oct 1987

Reviews current systems designed to help end-users search online databases without the assistance of an intermediary and describes a prototype system which emulates the Deco (the text storage and retrieval system used by Unilever) interface on Dialog and Data-Star. Initial trials of the prototype system are reported. (15 references) (MES)

Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer System Design, Formative Evaluation, Man Machine Systems, Online Searching, Users (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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