Reporting, information retrieval

Citation Searching. In the scholarly Hterature, authors cite earHer pubHcations that relate to the work being reported, thus a subject relationship exists between the citing and cited Hterature. This relationship has formed the basis for the Science Citation Index and related products, developed by the Institute for Scientific Information. Known as Scisearch in its on-line version, the Science Citation Index has become an important information retrieval tool in the second half of the twentieth century. It has been used for straightforward subject searching, in which mode it complements traditional indexed databases and indexes. It has also become a popular tool for hihliometric studies of various sorts, such as attempts to measure the relative impact of research carried out by different individuals or organizations, or the relative impact of pubHcations in different journals. 

In addition to chemicals covered under TRI, many other chemicals are released. For example, the EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards has compiled air pollutant emission factors for determining the total air emissions of priority pollutants (e.g., VOCs, SO, NO, CO, particulates, etc.) from many refinery sources. The EPA Office of Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) contains a wide range of information related to stationary sources of air pollution, including the emissions of a number of air pollutants which may be of concern within a particular industry. With the exception of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), there is little overlap with the TRI chemicals reported above. 

Provides access to textual and numeric data in its databases for information retrieval and reporting needs. Features word proximity and phrase searching thesaurus and index. 

Fire Incident Reports NFPA Retrieved information... 

Data screening and quality assurance checking were conducted at initial information retrieval and all data entries cross-checked during subsequent data compilation. Production/activity levels were verified against different information sources including annual records, selfmonitoring reports and ad hoc study reports. There was inadequate documentation of local industrial/commercial/urban activities and/or limited analytical data on the level of POPs contamination in some classes of emission sources. These were identified as inventory data gaps for followup actions. 

The basic ILLINET Online Network (Illinois Online Network) was used as the major computer-assisted information retrieval program. Within this network IBIS (Illinois Bibliographic Information Service), which provides abstracts taken from journal articles published from 1991 through December 1993, and CARL UnCover (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries), which provides titles to journal articles published in 1988 through December 1993, afforded much of the current and recent information reported on here. Abstracts of the pertinent literature published from 1982 through mid-1993 were also obtained directly from CA (Chemical Abstracts). It is hoped that the overlap provided this way assures the broadest retrieval of published results. All of these sources were searched by means of the following key words ... 

IMEP graphs are given. These graphs present the information retrieved from the questionnaire. Results in IMEP on solid samples have to be reported as content values corrected for dry mass. There is no protocol prescribed for moisture content determination. Participants are free to use their routine method. The majority of IMEP participants apply the oven-drying method at a certain temperature with or without prior equilibration of the sample at ambient conditions. Other questions regard the time needed for the analysis, the experience of the participants, and their regular participation in PT schemes. 

Information Retrieval and Reporting. Ad hoc retrieval and reporting of data using Datatrieve and other VAX languages is an important feature of LIMS as it is impossible to foresee all the future requirements for reports. The Database Query Language utility (DBQ) is used to retrieve, update and report data from compiled BASIC, PASCAL or other VAX languages. Data Manipulation Language (DML) is used by FORTRAN to access the data. 

Cyre, W.R., Applications of a Reconfigurable Array of Flexible Processors in Intelligence Information Retrieval, Control Data Corporation Final Report to the Rome Air Development Center, Contract No. F30602-78-C-0065, July 1979. 

The content of the report emphasises that the boundaries between the different types of information system are just as ill-defined as those between the different kinds of information. Many of the so-called data banks consist of files of bibliographic references, and in the majority of cases the final output from a search consists of a list of references rather than raw data. Thus, the report concludes that the goal of data center automation, computer storage of the data and their retrieval in response to requests for information, is not yet widespread . In other words, we are still in the era of document retrieval rather than information retrieval. 

Kent, A. K. The UKCIS Inverted File Information Retrieval System, INFIRS. UKCIS Internal Report (1970). 

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