THE DESIGN OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE LITERATURE OF ROCK MECHANICS

Abstract

This case history describes an information system, using data‐processing techniques, with the following characteristic features: it is designed to serve an interdisciplinary group of workers, whose literature is widely scattered; the users themselves are taking an active part in the development and operation of the system; the large back‐log of past literature is being processed into the system with minimal effort; a variety of tools for both current awareness and retrospective search is being developed, with subject approaches via title words, keywords, facet codes, broad subject codes, and user profile codes; the relative value of these approaches will be evaluated; some of these tools are manually searched, others will be mechanically searched; some are derived from simpler data‐processing equipment, others from the computer; the system is integrated so that all these tools are derived from a single intellectual and clerical input; the system can be flexibly expanded to incorporate more literature, more users, more complex use, and wider subject scope.

Citation

GRALEWSKA, A. (1968), "THE DESIGN OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE LITERATURE OF ROCK MECHANICS", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 197-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026455