Centers for Storage and Retrieval of Scientific Information in the U. S.

Astronomers and librarians have been experiencing difficulties in keeping up with the amount of published literature. The astronomer tries to keep abreast in his particular field and the librarian in the management, control and retrieval of scientific information. The 1980’s have seen a revolution in the methods for information storage and retrieval and in particular the advent of the online database. The speed of processing information for storage has been embraced by all, however little thought has been given to how we shall achieve effective high precision recall of documents.Many librarians firmly believe the best road to success in information retrieval from automated systems is provided by vocabulary control. Contrary to belief, free text or natural language searching alone does not lead to high precision recall. Consistency and integrity of the online catalogue can only be achieved with the addition of a controlled vocabulary. With today’s technology it is possible to maintain the best of both worlds. The controlled vocabulary is used to index the major concepts of a given document over and above the natural language used within the document.

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An information management system for charged particle nuclear reaction data

Journal of Information Science ◽

10.1177/016555158200400505 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 4 (5) ◽

pp. 213-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Masatomo Togasi ◽

Hajime Tanaka

Keyword(s):

Charged Particle ◽

Nuclear Reaction ◽

Management System ◽

Scientific Information ◽

Information Management System ◽

Inverted File ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Research Activities ◽

Reaction Data ◽

Data Base Management System

A storage and retrieval system for Charged Particle Nuclear Reaction Data (CPND) has been designed and implemented. CPND is a typical case of raw data produced in scientific research activities. The system has the architecture of an inter mediate system which lies between an IR system and a Data Base Management System (DBMS). Data input to the system are coded by a "data language" of free format. A doubly inverted file structure is incorporated into the system for both information representation and indexing. The implications of this system in the context of scientific information systems in general is discussed.

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Expert systems in scientific information exchange

Journal of Information Science ◽

10.1177/016555158400800302 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 103-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elzbieta J. Nowak ◽

Bogumil F. Szablowski

Keyword(s):

Expert Systems ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Semantic Network ◽

Scientific Information ◽

Technical Information ◽

Information Storage And Retrieval ◽

Information Storage ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Representation Scheme ◽

New Generation

The paper presents expert systems as a new generation of information storage and retrieval systems which may consider ably improve the processes of scientific and technical informa tion exchange and dissemination. Essential features of the expert systems with databases containing scientific or technical information have been specified. For databases in which a semantic network is used as a knowledge representation scheme, an idea of database organization has been described with some attention paid to the problem of extracting factual information from the texts of scientific and technical publications. The process of information retrieval from the database of a scien tific or technical information expert system has also been briefly described.

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Indirect measurements in micro-space with the EM

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100139366 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 598-599

Author(s):

Sterling P. Newberry

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscope ◽

Standard Model ◽

Particle Physics ◽

Information Storage ◽

Storage Space ◽

Indirect Measurements ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Adequate Information ◽

Compelling Reason ◽

The Standard Model

At the 1958 meeting of our society, then known as EMSA, the author introduced the concept of microspace and suggested its use to provide adequate information storage space and the use of electron microscope techniques to provide storage and retrieval access. At this current meeting of MSA, he wishes to suggest an additional use of the power of the electron microscope.The author has been contemplating this new use for some time and would have suggested it in the EMSA fiftieth year commemorative volume, but for page limitations. There is compelling reason to put forth this suggestion today because problems have arisen in the “Standard Model” of particle physics and funds are being greatly reduced just as we need higher energy machines to resolve these problems. Therefore, any techniques which complement or augment what we can accomplish during this austerity period with the machines at hand is worth exploring.

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252 The truly digital echocardiography laboratory: An ultrasound equipment-independent digital image acquisition, storage, and retrieval system

European Journal of Echocardiography ◽

10.1016/s1525-2167(99)80061-4 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. S18-S18

Author(s):

P BARBIER

Keyword(s):

Digital Image ◽

Retrieval System ◽

Image Acquisition ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Echocardiography Laboratory

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A Hierarchy of Multinomial Models for Multidimensional Source Monitoring

Methodology ◽

10.1027/1614-1881.1.1.2 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 2-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Thorsten Meiser

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processes ◽

Source Monitoring ◽

Source Information ◽

Model Comparisons ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Multinomial Processing Tree ◽

Multinomial Models ◽

Hierarchical Relationship ◽

Statistical Framework ◽

Tree Models

Abstract. Several models have been proposed for the measurement of cognitive processes in source monitoring. They are specified within the statistical framework of multinomial processing tree models and differ in their assumptions on the storage and retrieval of multidimensional source information. In the present article, a hierarchical relationship is demonstrated between multinomial models for crossed source information ( Meiser & Bröder, 2002 ), for partial source memory ( Dodson, Holland, & Shimamura, 1998 ) and for several sources ( Batchelder, Hu, & Riefer, 1994 ). The hierarchical relationship allows model comparisons and facilitates the specification of identifiability conditions. Conditions for global identifiability are discussed, and model comparisons are illustrated by reanalyses and by a new experiment on the storage and retrieval of multidimensional source information.

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