19 research outputs found
Semi-automatic construction of Thesaurus
Describes computer program for generating a thesaurus from Feature Heading of a Bibliographical Record. Also
gives a description of computer program for constructing synonym subject string.
Programs are written in COBOL. Gives flow charts and a sample of thesaurus output
Informetrics: Scope, Definition, Methodology and Conceptual Questions
Terminology developments – statistical bibliography to Informetrics – are traced. Librametry and its applications, issues pertaining to bibliometric research, and methodo-logical standards are discusse
Classical Laws of Informatrics : An Overview
Classical laws of bibliometrics – Bradford’s law, Lotka’s and Zipf’s law – are discussed, with emphasis on to law of scattering and inverse square law of scientific productivity. Two different approaches to bibliometric distributions – size and rank frequency approaches, characteristics of bibliometric distributions are discusse
Sources of Information with Emphasis on Electronic Resources
Information, an invaluable resource is being disseminated, transformed and
communicated in a variety of environments. They are now mostly available in emedia.
Librarians connot afford to ignore this development and they must
prepare themselves to handle e-sources. Move towards electronic handling of
information will be cost-effective and users will be in a position to get pinpointed
information with the help of powerful search engines. Some of the
important e-sources and problems associated with such sources are discussed in
this pape
Data Mining and Clustering Techniques
Data mining techniques are most useful in information
retrieval; some of these techniques are classification,
association rules and clustering. An attempt has been made
here to discuss these techniques
Information Management: Scope, Definition, Challenges & Issues
Information, a key resource, plays an important role in information society. Treating information as resource itself is a change in information management. Different issues in information management are management of change, systems and services, technology, collection development, personnel management, finance and planning. Some of these issues are discussed in this paperDocumentation Research and Training Centr