- Author
- Calabrese, J. T. | Kaetzel, L. J. | Glass, R. A. | Smith, G. R.
- Title
- Computer Data Base System for Indexing Research Papers. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBS TN 1167, October 1982,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- subject indexing; indexes (documentation); information systems; computer programming; document acquisition; library science; information retrieval; data retrieval; subject index terms
- Identifiers
- data bases; fortran 7 programming language; kgs system
- Abstract
- This report represents a significant revision to NBS Technical Note 1123 published in 1980. In that report, the Kaetzel, Glass, Smith (KGS) data base system permitted users to index, edit, classify, and retrieve scientific research paper citations. During the past 15 months, the system was modified and enhanced. All programs are written in standard FORTRAN VII Level I programming language providing transportability among computer systems. Retrieval time has been greatly reduced by changing from a sequential access method to an indexed, directory look-up file structure which allows faster and more efficient random access. The file structure is machine independent. Because of the responsiveness of the extract mode, the one-key retrieval is unnecessary and has been deleted from the revised system. The keyword mode has been replaced by the information mode which provides statistics on authors and keywords. A file maintenance mode has been added to ensure data base integrity. The KGS system has been separated from the larger Publications Data Base and the select data base mode has been removed. Software has been tailored to meet KGS users' needs. Overall, the revised system is faster and uses resources more efficiently than the original data base.