The Use of StandardizedDocumentary Data in Automatic InformationDissemination

It islikely thatfuture operating information retrieval systems maybebasedonautomatic information analysis methods instead ofmanualindexing, andonsearch procedures whichallow theusertointeract withthesystem during thesearch process. The effectiveness oftherequired analysis andsearch operations de- pends tosomeextent ontheavailability, inmachine-readable form, ofstandardized information concerning themake-up andcontent of eachstored document. Anauthor-prepared standard manuscript documentation unit, fur- nished witheachmanuscript, andillustrated inFig. 3ofthetext, maysimplify theinfonnation retrieval anddissemination operations andimprove their effectiveness. Thedesign ofsuchadocumentation unitiscovered anditsuseforindexing, classification, vocabulary normalization, searching, andretrieval isexplained.