- Author
- Jason, N. H.
- Title
- FIREDOC: A Fire Research Bibliographic Database.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- New Technology to Reduce Fire Losses and Costs. October 2-3, 1986, Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, New York, Luxembourg, Grayson, S. J.; Smith, D. A., Editors, 8-15 p., 1986
- Keywords
- databases
- Abstract
- The fire research literature is very diversified and there is no "simple" method to guarantee thorough literature searches on any given subject. The Center for Fire Research, National Bureau of Standards, has been involved in fire research since 1908. To increase the success rate of locating relevant documents and doing it in a more timely manner, the Center has implemented an on-line bibliographic database for its extensive and some times unique in-house literature collection. Using available supermicro hardware, FIREDOC was created as the on-line bibliographic database for the Fire Research Information Services (FRIS) collection. The steps that were taken to achieve an on-line system, the selection process for the hardware and software, and techniques on how to search the database are discussed.