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Cohen, Malcolm S. – 1975
The purpose of the research described in the report is twofold. First, it is to analyze the relative benefits and costs of on-line computerized placement systems. The techniques developed for such an analysis which might be useful in evaluating other manpower programs are presented. Second, it is to provide a prototype model which shows how…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Tanner, Dennis F.; Bane, Robert K. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1988
Examines the current development of computer compact disk storage devices (CD-ROM). Describes the basics of how the CD-ROM operates and identifies educational uses. Lists companies currently providing CD-ROM software and producing CD-ROM players. (MVL)
Descriptors: College Science, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Summers, J. K.; Sullivan, J. E. – 1970
This document explains recent developments in computer science and information systems of interest to the educational manager. A brief history of computers is included, together with an examination of modern computers' capabilities. Various features of card, tape, and disk information storage systems are presented. The importance of time-sharing…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Weller, Carolyn R., Ed. – 1992
Rules and guidelines are provided for ERIC catalogers and editors engaged in capturing bibliographic data for the documents and journal articles entered into the ERIC database. A general discussion of the principles of ERIC cataloging, definitions used, use of mandatory vs. optional data elements, etc. is provided in the Introduction. The body…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Check Lists, Classification, Databases
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Vazsonyi, Andrew – Interfaces, 1975
Discusses the new languages and software packages that make up data base management systems, outlines the characteristics of the systems, and examines the benefits claimed for them. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Storage Devices, Data Processing, Databases
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1982
Rules and guidelines are provided for ERIC catalogers and editors engaged in capturing bibliographic data on the documents and journal articles entered into the ERIC database. The material is organized by data element: Accession Number, Price Code, Pagination, Publication Date, Title, Journal Citation, Language, Publication Type, Descriptors,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Check Lists, Classification, Databases
Shetler, Stanwyn G. – 1975
The file organization for the computerized Flora North America (FNA) data bank is described. A four level character hierarchy allows subdivision of any flora description into as many as four levels in order to specify plant character precisely. Terms at any one level will not necessarily be parallel in status. Both PLANTS and LEAVES serve as…
Descriptors: Botany, Classification, Data Processing, Databases
Hultgren, Jan; Larsson, Rolf – 1973
This is a progress report on a project attempting to design a system of compacting text for storage appropriate to disc oriented demand searching. After noting a number of previously designed methods of compression, it offers a tentative solution which couples a dictionary of most frequent character-strings with a set of variable-length codes. The…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases, Information Processing
Claybrook, Billy G. – 1973
The computer language FOL is intended to facilitate the implementation of file organizations for information storage and retrieval systems. In many information storage and retrieval applications the designer, initially, does not know how best to organize a data base for efficient retrieval and ease of updating and modifying. It is felt that FOL…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Fife, Jonathan D. – 1974
Today, with development of computerized data banks, there is an increased quantity of stored information that has relevance to problems far beyond the scope of the original study for which the data were developed. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the major data available and their sources. It is hoped that by describing some of…
Descriptors: Data, Databases, Higher Education, Information Centers
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And Others; Dunham, George S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978
A procedure for automated indexing of pathology diagnostic reports at the National Institute of Health is described, including a discussion of English terms encoded into the Systematized Nomenclature of Pathology (SNOP)--a manual indexing language--resulting in effective automatic encoding. Morphosyntactic analysis and synonym substitutions are…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Databases, Diagrams, Diseases
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Holmstrom, Larry W. – RSR Reference Services Review, 1988
Discussion of factors that influence a publisher's choice of electronic and media delivery techniques; assesses use of diskettes, Bernoulli removable cartridge disks, CD-ROM, modems using dial-up phone lines, leased phone lines, satellites, and FM subcarriers. Sample data sizings are evaluated, and a cost model of electronic delivery costs is…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Costs, Databases, Electronic Publishing
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Helgerson, Linda W. – Library Hi Tech, 1986
Discusses search and retrieval software for use with CD-ROM. Background trends, how data are made usable, supply and demand, data preparation services, and capabilities of search software are described. Vendors of significant information retrieval products are identified, and the characteristics of 12 packages are compared. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Database Producers, Databases
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Allen, F. H.; And Others – Journal of Chemical Documentation, 1973
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is concerned with the retrieval, evaluation, synthesis, and dissemination of structural data obtained by diffraction methods. This article (Part I is EJ053033) describes the work of the center and deals with the organization and maintenance of a computerized file of numeric crystallographic structural…
Descriptors: Chemical Nomenclature, Citations (References), Databases, Information Centers
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And Others; Mittman, B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973
Northwestern University's Remote Information Query System (RIQS), an information storage and retrieval system characterized by a mixture of data structures for the internal record organization, is discussed. On-line and batch mode search capabilities handle both textual and quantitative information. Other system characteristics, capabilities and…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Services
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