Methods of organizing information for storage and searching

Saul Herner

American Documentation, 1962, vol. 13, issue 1, 3-14

Abstract: The following five factors are either going to have, or already have had, a basic effect on how information is organized for retrospective search: Uniterm indexing, keyword or KWIC indexing, the work of Stevens, Schultz, Stiles and Luhn in bridging the gap between the indexer and searcher, character‐recognition devices, and the Multiple Instantaneous Responses File or MIRF.

Date: 1962
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