On the Multiplicative Structure of Information Storage and Access Systems

J. L. Dolby and H. L. Resnikoff
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J. L. Dolby: R & D Consultants Company, Los Altos, California, Houston, Texas
H. L. Resnikoff: R & D Consultants Company, Los Altos, California, Houston, Texas

Interfaces, 1971, vol. 1, issue 4, 23-30

Abstract: The “information explosion” is a continuing crisis to which most of us have developed a tolerable degree of accomodation. It is not a new problem nor is it likely to ease in the foreseeable future. In this note we describe the structure of information storage and access mechanisms that governs attempts to effectively control and use the ever-growing archives constituted by libraries, company reports, government documents, business correspondence, and so forth. Most of the examples to be presented below refer to library information collections for which it is relatively easy to assemble reliable statistical evidence, but the structural model that this evidence supports is of perfectly general applicability.

Date: 1971
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