A SINGLE COMPUTER‐BASED SYSTEM FOR BOTH CURRENT AWARENESS AND RETROSPECTIVE SEARCH: OPERATING EXPERIENCE WITH ASSASSIN
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026519 |
| Date | 01 April 1971 |
| Pages | 243-253 |
| Published date | 01 April 1971 |
| Author | C.R. CLOUGH,K.M. BRAMWELL |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
THE
Journal of Documentation
VOLUME 27 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 1971
A SINGLE COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM FOR BOTH
CURRENT AWARENESS AND RETROSPECTIVE
SEARCH:
OPERATING EXPERIENCE WITH ASSASSIN
C. R. CLOUGH and K. M. BRAMWELL*
Agricultural Division, Imperial Chemical Industries
Limited,
Billingham,
Teesside
ASSASSIN† as designed and operated by ICI Agricultural Division, pro-
vides from, a single paper tape input a current awareness service by SDI and
a retrospective search both by a weighted term machine search and printed
KWOC-type indexes. Programs for producing structured thesauri are part
of the package. Input is in the form of abstracts from both published and
internal sources.
The system
has
operated for more than
a
year at the Agricultural Division
and is currently in use at five other locations. Flexibility of the package is
demonstrated by the variety of applications.
This paper outlines the various applications and shows how
a
single pack-
age may be used complete, or in part, or with modification. Machine costs
are given for the major application.
The system was designed with the possible input of externally produced
machine readable data in mind. The intended application of the package in
conjunction with tapes such as those of the Institute for Scientific Informa-
tion source and Chemical Abstracts Condensates
is
outlined.
INTRODUCTION
THE ASSASSIN system was conceived originally as a replacement for the
conventional services operated by the Intelligence Section of ICI Agricul-
tural Division.
* Presented at the 3rd Int. Conference on Mechanized Information Storage and Retrieval
Systems. Cranfleld Institute of Technology, 20-23 July 1971.
† Agricultural System for Storage And Subsequent Selection of INformation.
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