AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL LANGUAGE FOR MARC

Abstract

I see from the programme that I am supposed to talk on an information language for MARC, and it is true that the work I have been doing for the past year or so has been under the auspices of the MARC Project. But the subject indexing system we have developed is concerned as much with BNB's plans for computer production from 1971 as with the MARC tapes as such, and I hope to show that we have also gone some way towards developing a compatible general system with even wider application. Before coming to this, however, it is necessary to describe briefly some of the day to day pressures of work which caused BNB to look to the computer for help. From this we can see how the computer forced us to reconsider our whole approach to subject indexing.

Citation

AUSTIN, D. (1970), "AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL LANGUAGE FOR MARC", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 22 No. 10, pp. 481-491. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050260