Analysis of the records of a small, specialised consultancy indicates that research results have been applied both in general development of subject knowledge and in solving specific prob lems. Some promising research which appears not yet to have yielded practical results is noted, and difficulties are identified in converting published research into practical applications.
Text and document analysis on a large scale and the auto matic acquisition of texts are likely to be useful future research topics; user studies and cost benefit analyses appear to be the best tools for assessment.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
F.G. Kilgour , Collected papers of Frederick G. Kilgour: OCLC Years (OCLC, Dublin/ Ohio, 1984).
2.
L. Hirschman , Retrieving time information from natural-language texts, in: R.N. Oddy et al., eds, Information Retrieval Research (Butterworths, London, 1981).
3.
P.D. Gratton , Automation in Derbyshire County Libraries (Library Association, 1983).
4.
E.F. Codd , A relational model of data for large shared data banks, Comm. ACM13 (6) (1970) 377-387.
5.
J.H. Ashford , and M.P. Dudley, Design aspects of an on-line integrated public library system, Program13 (3) (1979) 111-126.
6.
J.A.T. Pritchard , Quantitative Methods in On-line System Design (NCC, 1976).
7.
F.H. Ayres et al., USBC (Universal Standard Book Code): Its Use For File Creation (British Library, London, 1984).
8.
A. Thomas, STATUS at Britoil, in: Information Technology in 1982 (Library Association, 1982).
9.
J.H. Ashford et al., ADLIB, An Adaptive Management System for Special Libraries (LMR, Maidenhead , 1st ed., 1978).
10.
D.E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Vol 3: Sorting and Searchin ( Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1973 ).
11.
A. Seal et al ., Full and Short Entry Catalogues: Library Needs and Uses (Gower Press, London, 1982).
12.
J.H. Ashford , Storage and retrieval of bibliographic records: a comparison of database management system (DBMS) and free text approaches, Program18 (1) (1984) 16-45.
13.
F. Rabitti and J. Zizka, Evaluation of access methods to text documents in office systems, in: Van Rijsbergen, Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Cambridge University Press, London, 1984).
14.
L. Reynolds, Visual Presentation of Information in COM Library Catalogues: a Survey, BLR&DD Report no. 5472, Two volumes (British Library, London, 1979).
15.
D. Austin, PRECIS: a Manual of Concept Analysis and Subject Indexing ( British Library, London, 1984).
16.
D. Cooper et al., Generation of fixed-length search codes from INSPEC words using techniques based on variety generation and on division hashing, Program15 (4) (1981) 226-232.
17.
K. Sparck Jones, ed., Information Retrieval Experiment (Butterworths, London, 1981).
18.
T.J. Marriott , IGS Library map catalogue: structure and retrieval in a cartographic database, Proc. Ann. Conf. STATUS Users Group, St. Peters College, Oxford, September 1983 (available from AERE, Harwell).
19.
J.H. Ashford , Document storage and retrieval in the electronic office, Information Development1 (2) (1985).
20.
P. Harding, Automatic Indexing and Classification for Mechanised Information Retrieval, BL R&D Report no. 5723 (British Library, London, 1982).
21.
C.D. Paice , Soft evaluation of Boolean search queries in information retrieval systems, Information Technology3 (1) (1984) 33-41.
22.
C.D. Paice, The automatic generation of literature abstracts: an approach based on the identification of self-indicating phrases, in: R.N. Oddy et al, eds., Infonnation Retrieval Research (Butterworths, London, 1981).
23.
K.P. Jones and C.L.M. Bell, The automatic extraction of words from texts especially for input into information retrieval systems based on inverted files, in: Van Rijsbergen, Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Cambridge University Press, London, 1984).
24.
S.M. Welford et al., the Sheffield University generic chemical structures research project, in: J.M. Barnard, ed., Computer Handling of Chemical Structures (Gower Press, London, 1984).
25.
D. Budworth, Does technology need more pure science?, New Scientist105 (1438) (January 1985) 12-15.
26.
N.J. Belkin and R.N. Oddy, Design study for an anomalous state of knowledge information retrieval system (The ASK Project), British Library R&D Report no. 5447, 1979.
27.
K. Sparck Jones, Proposals for R&D in intelligent knowledge based systems. Journal of Information Science8 (4) (1984) 139-147.
28.
K.E. Dowlin, The Electronic Library (Neal-Schuman, Mansell, 1984).
29.
J. Martyn and B. Cronin, Assessing the benefits of information and library research, J. Doc.39 (3) (1983) 171-191.
