Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space SciencesAndre Heck, Fionn Murtagh Intelligent information Retrieval comprehensively surveys scientific information retrieval, which is characterized by growing convergence of information expressed in varying complementary forms of data - textual, numerical, image, and graphics; by the fundamental transformation which the scientific library is currently being subjected to; and by computer networking which as become an essential element of the research fabric. Intelligent Information Retrieval addresses enabling technologies, so-called `wide area network resource discovery tools', and the state of the art in astronomy and other sciences. This work is essential reading for astronomers, scientists in related disciplines, and all those involved in information storage and retrieval. |
Contents
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Really Intelligent Information Retrieval 2221 | 21 |
InformationSifting Front Ends to Databases | 49 |
What Hypertext can do for Information Retrieval | 81 |
Wide Area Network Resource Discovery Tools | 103 |
The Internet Gopher 119 | 118 |
State of the Art in Astronomy and Other Sciences | 134 |
The Need for a Correlation Environment | 153 |
Intelligent Information Retrieval in High Energy Physics | 173 |
Astronomical Data Centres from an IIR Perspective 193 | 192 |
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Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space ... Andre Heck,Fionn Murtagh No preview available - 1993 |
Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space ... Andre Heck,Fionn Murtagh No preview available - 1993 |
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