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Fife, Dennis U.; And OthersA Technical Index of Interactive Information Systems.Final Report.National Bureau of Standards (DOC), Washington,D.C.National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.NBS-TN-819Mar 7479p.Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government PrintingOffice, Washington, D.C. 20402 (SD Cat. No.C13.46:819, $1.20)
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ABSTRACTThe technical features and operational status of
inter,ctive information systems, i.e. those providing aconversational usage mode to a non-programer-through a data terminaldevice, are reviewed. The review is designed to aid informationspecialists in the state-of-the-art assessments preparatory to adetailed system selection procedure. It contains an index: 46 systemsare listed by trade name. The index provides information about over50 technical features. Information is based primarily ondocumentation received during 1972 and 1973. In addition, there areaids and examples contributing to the intended use of the index.(Author)
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,-4(NJ Interactive Information Systems
wDennis W. Fife, Kirk Rankin., Elizabeth Fong,Justin C. Walker, and Beatrice A. Marron
Systems and Software %visionInstitute for Computer Science and TechnologyNational Bureau of StandardsWashington, D.C. 20231
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FOREWORD
,Despite a history marked by some significant failures and numerouspartial successes, the field of computer software for informationservices now offers a wide and growing range of choices. Indeed, thevariety and complexity of available software seems to overwhelm routinedocumentation and distribution as an effective means of dissemination.This report offers relief as a concise reference to technical featuresand operational status in the domain of interactive systems, i.e.,those providing a "conversational" usage mode to a "non-programmer"through a data terminal device. The report was prepared under NationalScience Foundation support for NBS to assess the status of automatedinformation services for scientific and technical information. (GrantNSF-CA68). The principal motivation for this report was a request forassistance from the COSATI Task Group on Interactive Systems, chairedby Mr. Alexander Hoshovsky, U. S. Department of Transportation.
We gratefully acknowledge the excellent cooperation of the systemproducers, the review assistance of the COSATI Task Group, and especiallythe support and thoughtful advice of Dr. Edward Weiss and Mr. RichardLee of the Office of Science Information Service, NSF.
This report identifies computer systems by trade names as necessaryto provide a descriptive characterization of their features. This in nocase implies a recommendation or-endorsement by the National Bureau ofStandards, nor should the presentation be construed as a certification
-that any system provides the indicated capabilities. The informationpresented was primarily obtained from producer's documents and has beenreviewed by each producer for accuracy and clarity, with the authorsretaining final technical judgement on the information included. Thereport is only intended to be informative and instructive in state-of-the-art assessments, and not to be a competitive evaluation of systemsfor any specific application.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction 1
2. Basic Characteristics of Systems Under Study 2
3. System Features and Evaluation Requirements 5
3.1 Questionnaire with Explanatory Notes 5
3.2 Suggested Procedure for Use 5
4. Survey Results 144.1 Indexes -to SyStems 144.2 The Inventory of Systems 17
Name Page Name PazeEs 18 MARSVT 41CMS 19 MASTER CONTROL 42CIRCOL 20 MICROTLXT 43(Data/Central) 21 MINIDATA 44DIALOG 22 MIRADS 45DMARS 23 MUSE 46Dom, 24 NASIS 47DRS 25 N.Y.TIMES 48DS/3 26 OLIVER 49flIISARI 27 ORBIT III 50ENFORM 28 PIRETS 51FLEXIMIS 29 QUERY UPDATE 52GIM 30 RAMIS 53GIPSY 31 RECON 54IMARS 32 RFI 55IMS(OEP) 33 RIOS 56
IMS/360 34 SHOEBOX 57
IMS/8 35 SOLAR 58INQUIRE 36 SPIRES II 59
INSYTE 37 STAIRS 60
LEADERMART 38 SYSTEM 2000 61MARK IV 39 TICON 62
MARS III 40 UNIDATA 63
5. Glossary of Common Data Bases 64
6. Bibliography 68
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A TECHNICAL INDEX OF INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Dennis W. Fife, Kirk Rankin, Elizabeth FongJustin C. Walker, Beatrice A. Marron
This report constitutes a reference to technical featuresand operational status of interactive information systems, i.e.those providing a 'conversational' usage mode to a 'non-program&mer' through a data terminal device. It is aimed at the ADPservice manager, for his use in the state-of-the-art assessments,preparatory to a detailed system selection process. It containqan index that describes 46 systems in terms of a list of over '
50 technical features plus descriptive, identification, andbackground information. In addition, there are aids and ex-amples contributing to the intended use of the index.
Key words: Bibliographic systems; computer programs; computersystems; data base; data management; information retrieval;information services; interactive system; query language;software selection; text processing.
1. INTRODUCTION
This report is written for the purpose of providing Federal ADPcustomers with information on a certain class of computer systems whichare capable of handling scientific and technical information. The reportattempts to show what is available and to characterize these systems insuch a way as to answer questions which naturally arise prior to select-ing such a system for a particular installation. The-report is writtenat a level of technical detail which is aimed at information specialistsrather than programming experts. It is intended to be informative andinstructive, and not critical or evaluative.
We have reviewed for inclusion in this index over 200 systems whichcame to our attention from various published and unpublished sources aswell as from word-of-mouth. The systems which were selected conform tothe following definition: "Information Retrieval" or "Data Management"packages or services which are available to any Federal ADP installa-tion, and which offer an interactive query and search capability thatis geared for use by non-programmers. Various reasons for rejectingthe systems which did not qualify for inclusion are listed at the endof Section 2 of this report.
one information contained here on each of the systems was obtainedprimarily from documentation received during 1972 and 1973. In caseswhere the available documentation did not provide sufficient data,further information was obtained by telephone. We believe that thereporting on these systegs is accurate, for it has been reviewed andamended where necessary by the system producers. We regret if thisreport inadvertently omits any system which may meet the definition.Omissions and out-of-date information are inevitable in a survey ofsuch an extremely active and evolutionary field as this.
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A caveat on'the use of this index must be mentioned. We haveattempted to convey in a limited space information obtained fromsecondary sources. There are obvious limitations in such a treatment.The best way to gain in-depth familiarity with a system is, of course,to have hands-on experience with it. That has not been possible formost Of our treatments, but that course is recommended to readers andusers of this inventory.
This report is structured as follows: Section 2 elaborates on thedefinition of the scope of the survey and clarifies some of the importantconcepts and sometimes confusing terminology. Section 3 discusses eval-uation for system selection, so that a manager can relate his needs totechnical features which appear in our questionnaire. Section 4presents the technical data on systems surveyed. Section 5 presentsa brief description of the widely known, commercial data bases that areaccessible on some of the surveyed systems. Section 6 presents abibliography of related work that may also be helpful for informationsources.
2. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SYSTEMS UNDER STUDY
In this part, we discuss the rationale for including certain sys-tems in this index and excluding others. The intention has been toinclude every system for which there are "yes" answers to the followingquestions:
(1) Does it have an interactive query and search capability?(2) Is this capability geared for use by non-programmers?(3) Is the system available to any Federal ADP customer?
We will now explain what is meant by the three questions. The firstquestion is dealt with extensively, since arriving at an acceptableunderstanding of "interactive" has proved to be quite difficult.
2.1 Interactive Query and Search
The term "interactive system" is elusive when attempts are made topin down an exact definition. The problem is complicated by the factthat this and related terms have been used for promotional and adver-tising reasons as much as for technical reasons. Rather than try toestablish a hard definition, we sketch the intuitive meaning for theterm by placing it in perspective with other terms.
Terms currently in use to describe the processing of jobs by a com-puter system are batch, remote batch*, on-line, and interactive. Intui-tively, batch processing requires that all steps in a job, together withany required input, be specified prior to the job's initiation. A dis-
"Remote job entry" or "ROE" is often used and is synonymous with "remotebatch".
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tinction can be drawn between local batch and remote batch systems ac-cording to input via direct lines or via communication lines. The lat-ter require an extra layer of protocol which sometimes must be specifiedby the user. A batch program is one in which all parameters are speci-fied in advance, but also whose results are known only after completionof the whole job.
The term "on-line processing' is generally used to describe aspectrum of processing modes. The user communicates with an on-line sys-tem via a typewriter-like terminal (i.e., a terminal with a keyboardand possibly a display). The system actively acknowledges user input insore form, as opposed to the more passive remote batch systems. Thespectrum of processing modes is determined by the extent of this acknow-ledgenent, e.g. prompting after receipt of "input lines", prompting plus-yntax check of control cards, and so on. Interactive systems form aportion of the on-line spectrum. They are characterized by "friendly"responses to input errors, relatively rapid response to system commandsand the like. Generally, the interactive system _Links a system or userprogram directly with the user at all times, in contradistinction toother on-line systems. In the latter type, user and systems programsutilize the terminal mainly as a line printer.
The above distinctions are not rigorous, and from the user's viewnay be non-existent in a fast-response environment. The followingdiscussion tries to focus on the "interactive" system from the user'spoint of view. In the survey we include systems from the entire on-linespectrum but we have attempted to restrict inclusion to -Close which pre-sent some indication of interactivity either from the above considerationor from those following.
Imagine a system which allows a user to formulate a query at histerminal and submit that query for searching against a file, and whichprints out the records which satisfy that query, within a matter ofseconds. Such a system qualifies as having an "interactive query andsearch capability", although it is at the weaker end of the spectrumcompared to a system as now described.
This system allows the user to incrementally formulate a query, andresponds with intermediate results (e.g. the number of records satisfy-ing the query or similar terms or phrases which the user may also con -sider), based on which the user can re-formulate or extend his query.This cycle of system response with intermediate results leading to userre-formulation of query, etc. need have no upper limit. For example,the following user/system session is typical of one of the major eppli-cations of interactive systems, namely bibliographic search.
The user enters his query, e.g. "computers", which is checked forinclusion in an index of permitted terms. It is found to be includedand found to be a descriptor of say 1,104 documents in the system.The system responds with "1,104 hits". At this point the user modifieshis original request with "and the United States". The system respondswith "52 hits". The user then modifies his now complex query with
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"published since 1971". The system responds with 't hit". The userrequests the titles of these documents. On viewing them he then re-quests the full citations f,if three documents from that six that he real-ly is interested in. Such a system would be at the stronger end of the"interactive" spectrum.
2.2 Use by Non-programmers
Many customers want the capability of having a user who is not aprogrammer formulate queries at a terminal in a way that is relativelynatural for him. Many systems are designed in such a way that theirinteractive, query and search components are geared for use by non-pro-grammers: information specialists, managers, or clerical personnel. Wehave attempted to restrict our survey to such systems.
In some cases, the documentation for a system states that it is foruse by programmers. All such systems have been rejected. In some casesnot so rejected, inspection of a system's documentation forces us to re-ject it because there are requirements on the user to "do programming"of a sort. By this we mean that the user has to phrase some or all ofhis query (or operations preceding the query) in language constructswhich are primitive and unnatural in relation to his task of query andsearch.
For example, one system defines its files in terms of physicalstorage structure. In querying files, the affected files must be des-cribed by such parameters as transport number, number of logical recordsper physical record, and address of first block (of tape) or sector(of disc).
Another system has essentially a high level programming languagefor querying files. Each query is bracketed by a BEGIN-END pair andlanguage statements within are numbered hierarchically. Each statementpotentially produces a result which can be referred to in other state-ments by giving the statement number. An example is:
BEGIN1. FIND ALL RECORDS FOR WHICH GRADE = 22. COUNT RECORDS IN 13. PRINT ... COUNT IN 2END
The primitive nature of the statements forces the user to construct aprogram to query the system, even for the most logically simple requests.
2.3 Availability
We are including in this index systems which are available to theFederal customer. Availability implies that the system is operational
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(not in research or development) and still supported. There is also anunderstanding that there are no legal, security, or other problems inthe way of availability. The systems included here are either availableon a commercial basis or on a less formal and less costly basis in caseswhere the originator is not a commercial establishment. Further, wehave included both those systems which are available on a service basisand those which are available as packages for lease or purchase. .{
To summarize, we have attempted to include every data management orinformation retrieval system for which there are "yes" answers to thethree questions. Reasons for not including a system are: (1) it is abatch system; (2) its query language is not for use by non-programmers,(3) it (or its query language) is in research or development; (4) it isno longer supported; (5) the originator of the system is unlocatable orno longer in business; (6) there are legal or security problems in theway of releasing the system; and (7) documentation has been solicitedbut not yet received.
3. SYSTEM FEATURES AND EVALUATION REQUIREMENTS
3.1 Questionnaire with Explanatory Notes
Systems are built with different objectives and hence have differentcapabilities for different application situations. Since not all systemsprovide the same set of features to the same degree, it has been neces-sary here to establish features for describing systems relative to abroad range of possible user needs. The feature list or questionnaireused in this index is therefore the union of a wide number of possiblyrelevant capabilities, see Table 1. A specific system is characterizedby a subset of the features covered.
3.2 Suggested Procedure for Use
The survey results, Section 4, represent a nearly complete inventoryof availableinteractive software, and therefore are a basis for asses-sing the state-of-the-art in this field. The index is intended also tobe informative i the preliminary, exploratory stage of a system selec-tion activity. In this area, the index may aid a manager in articulatinghis requirerents using the offered features as a starting point. Further,the index nay be useful in forming a tentative set of candidate systems,by screening the inventory against a required subset of features. Thelatter of course imposes an inescapable burden on the user to relate hisunique needs to applicable features.
The suggested procedure for using this index can be illustrated bybriefly discussing questions arising in formulating requirements andevaluating information systems. Two basic alternatives would face aninformation service manager once he has decided to investigate thefeasibility of automated service, see Figure 1. If the expected usageis very high and a computer facility is in place, an in-house servicecould be considered. Compatibility with the available mainframe may
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TABLE 1.
QUESTIONNAIRE WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY Or SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
Additional names are given for
alternative versions.
System
originator is developer and
implementor.
Filled in if the computer
program package itself is
offered for customer
installation.
Filled in if remote service is
offered.
Filled in where the package
itself is offered.
Filled in where service is
offered.
Used to implement the software.
Identifies systems which can
serve rultiple users
simultaneously through
re-entrant code, thus
conserving storage.
C. FILr orrIraTIoN
1. vr n DFF/NAbLE
2. TIARIAbLE LENGTH TL XT
3. IrrrATrD rIrLou
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1. ALLOWS ON-LI:a.
a. CREATION
b. rrDATt
c. DruTroN
d. EDITING
7. rn.r.r?,oralAr-IrD DATA
vAi.xDATION CHECKE
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
mTrun DATA
4. AUTOMATIC Or
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Can the remote user define and
implement his own data and file
structures?
rn individual records
accomoeate text of any length,
or at leant as much as a
typical bibliographic abstract?
In it possible to.ave a
variable number of identically
named fields in a record,
);e71,ords or authcrn?
"On-line updating' refers to
change of the logical content
of a record, iyhile "on-line
editing' refers to an
ansociate0 capability to
selectively indicate partial
changesvpf,the record content.
Arc there functions to check
the 'correctness" of the
incoming data?
Can incoming data elements and
records be optionally ordered
with respect to pre-existing
elements and records in the
file?
Is there a preprogrammed
automatic or nachine-aided
process to scan raw text an
develop concept-indicating
ker,ords and phraset?
TABLE I., CONTINUED
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTE, INTERACTION
a. WLTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LIXE
PPRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT srAnomp:
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYM.
e. DISPLAY. OF
RELATED TEPrr
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED mOCADVIAPY
During a session with the
system, does the user have the
freedom to specify various
actions at any time?
For
example, after entering a
search term, is the user
returned to a state where he
may choose more terns, review
previous choices, or execute
the search?
Do the system commands have
English or near-English names
indicating their function?
Is the user completely "led
along" by the system in a
dialog completely controlled by
the system?
Is the user required to use a
pre-established set of search
terns?
Can the user use any word
expected in text (excepting
perhaps an excluded list of
stop words like "a', "of",
"the"?)
Can the user specify a set of
search terms by using a root
expression such as 'conpUt*".
where * has all the values "e",
"ex-% "ere, etc.
Does the system have the
capability of specifying a
class of semantically
equivalent terms either in its
vocabulary or else by
definition?
Can the system display terms
from its vocabulary which are
equivalent to a given term or
are more or less specific, but
related to it?
Is there a command which checks
a given input term for
inclusion in a controlled
vocabulary and perhapsgives
immediate alphabetic neighbors?
3. SEAPCP CPECIEICATION
a. -TrT Nppr FIELD!'
h. PlAy LIMIT rirLES
c. BoOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NEST/Nn OF nonLEAN
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g. PPRAFE AND DrrTAnCE
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4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "PM?* comrAND
h. UOCEMENTATION
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Is it necensary to always
specify fields in query
formulation, e.g.,
"AuthorsTreud"?
Is it possible to nrecify
fields in query formulation to
limit or control the search?
Is there an explicit capability
for taping two valid search
expressions and connecting them
with AND or OR so as to
Construct a new eXpressien with
the usual Boolean
interpretation?
Is there an explicit capability
for negating a valid search
expression hy preceding it with
NOT?
Is there an explicit capability
for enbedding search
expressi,ns within other search
expressions?
Is it possible to use
multi-word strings an search
terms? Is it possible to use a
ouery which specifies that two
terms must occur within some
stated distance in the text
from each ether?
Can the user phrase his search
objective in natural Fnolis,
sentences and phrases?
IS there a capability for
specifying a range of numeric
values in a search expressicri,
e.e., "...published since
1971"?
Is there a Cern,and which gives
assistance to a user on what
options are available to his at
various points in a session?
Can the uner get at
documentation on-line which
explains the system, the data
hoses, etc.-?
TABLE I., CONTINUE:
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
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b. srovrNrIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUACE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
h. PELFCT AmONC
OPTIONS
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2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTIGC
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h. smuhacING
C. COUNTINC
d. A4TT1MTIC
C. SECURITY
1. TER.INAL
2. DATA RASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Refering to the file accessing
technique used in the
implementation, is an
individual record uni,:uely
located:
a. from an index,
L. by consecutive search of
each record in the file,
c. within a croup of records?
How are alternative output
formats determined?
Can the user write a program to
specify his output format?
Do programs exist to display
simple charts and graphs?
Are there special output forms
(c.q., microfilm, etc.)
available?
Can output be selectively
sorted on chosen fields?
Refers to a capability for
sorting or "ranking' by
relevance to a query.
of number o.! hits.
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or other identifiers' to inhihit
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then be the overriding factor in the selection of a software package tobe installed. The index can be used to find as prine candidates thesystems implemented on the given vendor hardware. However, if expectedusage is low, say on the order of a few hours of terminal use per day,or if a computer center and necessary expertise are unavailable, a worthyalternative would be to obtain use of software as a service from anoutside computing center. A pertinent question then is whether theservice offers searching of a major commercial data base, if requ3.red,or takes customer data bases 3f a special private file is involved. Theindex also assists in finding initial candidates based on these factors.
Having pursued one of the above alternatives to identify a relevantsubset of available system, attention should turn to technical featuresdesirable or necessary for the intended application. The questions inthe index were purposely selected to draw out distinctions in threebroad classes of system application, called respectively formatted dataprocessing, structured text searching, and personal text handling. Asa tutorial guide for the index user to articulate his unique requirements,these classes will be individually discussed toward framing a representa-tive list of essential and additional desirable features (Tables 2-4).
Formatted data processing is conceived as most typical of managementinformation, Military command/control, and other applications where dataelements have mostly numerical, abbreviated text, or other encoded(e.g. date) values. Personnel, inventory, or production control fileswould be common examples. Data values in the file may need to be up-dated frequently as status changes occur in the application environment(e.g. personnel are reassigned, parts are used, or products moved fromone manufacturing station to another). This is motivation for requiringon-line file maintenance as an essential capability. In Table 2, there-fore, D. 1 indicates that a qualifying system must allow update orediting transactions to be entered from the user's remote terminal (seeTable 1 for explanation of items under D.1). Foniiatted data processingsoftware must provide considerable flexibility to the user in manipulat-ing file data in any logically correct order and with a wide range ofarithmetic functions. These are essential because such systems areusually applied concurrently to a number of differently organized files.Also, they must help their user to answer an indeterminable variety ofquestions about relationships and quantities in the file data. In Table2, the conclusion is reflected in choices of: an interaction languagewith r- 'iltiple options (E.l.a), a full Boolean capability to expresslogical or comparion conditions (E.3.c through E.3.f), and arithmeticcapabilities (F.3.c and d). Users of these systems also require a rangeof options in formatting output reports, so that essential factors canbe made clearly visible and effectively ordered with respect to relateddata. For these reasons, optional formatting (F.l.b and c) and ordering(F.3.a) are included as essential in Table 2.
Related to these essential features are several additional onesthat seem especially desirable and are often available. In some cir-cumstances they may be considered essential. Repeatable fields (C.3)
9
are a great convenience in organizing and referencing the machine filewhen records have multiple occurrences of the same type of data (e.g.children or work experience in a personnel file). This may also saveconsiderable machine storage for many files. English-like languagephrasing (E.l.b) aids user comprehension and ease of use, in conjunctionwith the multiple option language characteristic. Range searching(E.3.i) and displays of graphs (F.2.b) significantly enhance selectionof desired records and data presentation in a more readily perceivedform. Tutorial aids (E.t.a or b) are highly desirable, even essential,to bring users quickly toward effec-ve use of complex software or tohelp solve usage problems as they are encountered.
Structured text searching (Table 3) is conceived as representativeof bibliographic information searching, legal text searching, and sim-ilar uses where the file records consist of prescribed segments of text,individually of variable length (C.2 in Table 1), possibly rather long(1000 characters or more). Examples of text segments would be reporttitles, abstracts, patent claims, patagraphs, statute sections. Toidentify a text record for selection there must be a technique forabbreviated content description, since requiring an exact match to allthe text in a segment would be inconceivable and inconsistent with theintended function. Content description may be provided by indexing eachfile record by a set of keywords from a controlled vocabulary (E.2.a)which the user can inspect to check his desired term for acceptability(E.2.0. Or else, any significant word occurring in text may be pro-vided as a valid search term (E.2.b). Because these systems are espe-cially aimed at users .unaccustomed to programming encoded forms, English -
like phrasing is deemed essential as well. Because a search may selectvoluminous text records that would be exceedingly long to print on theusual 10 or 30 character/second terminals, off-line printing (F.2.a) athigh speed is also essential. Moreover, these systems should presenta count (F.3.c) of the records that would be selected by a proposedsearch o that a user can judge the desirability of continuing the search.
The data files of structured text searching systems would be expect-ed to be unchanging in content and very large in volume. It would beexpensive to reorder or restructure them as new data is received, so itwould be desirable for the system to accept new data in any order (D.3).Other desirable features would extend content searching capability, forexample by giving a synonym facility (E.2.d) or a presentation of otherterms that are conceptually related (E.2.e). As in formatted dataprocessing, tutorial aid is desirable. In contrast to that applicationhowever, full Boolean capability, optional report formatting, and op-tional ordering are suggested here as desirable rather than essential.Only a Boolean AND, allowing the conjunction of distinct search terms,is imperative for user convenience, to avoid a tedious selection fromrecord subsets found by individual terms. Optional formatting and order-ing may not be used often for such simple structured output records asbibliographic citations. A standard output presentation then is general-ly sufficient, unless text fields become numerous and frequently ofmarginal importance, requiring more selectivity to be given the user.
10
Personal text handling is conceived as a generalization of struc-tured text searching to uniquely serve an individual researcher increation, editing, and composition of text bodies as well as searchingthem. Examples arise in military intelligence work, legal case pre-parations, source book or encyclopedia preparation, etc. Most of therequirements of structured text searching apply. The most germaneadditions are for user definable file structures (O.1) and on-linefile maintenance (D.1), which allow complete user flexibility to estab-lish arbitrary new files in the course of his interactive usage. Option-al output formatting becomes essential because of the potential varietyand scope of file structures. A highly desirable search capabilitywould be phrase and distance searching (E.3.g), to permit the researcherto more narrowly select desired records based on occurrence of phrasesor words in context (separated by limited distance). As the researchermay establish many records with grossly similar content within hisspecial interest, this additional selectivity has great importance.
The above rationale indicates the type of analysis which may leadthe user to a pertinent feature list for his situation.
Table 5 illustrates using the worksheet for structured text search-ing to develop comparative presentations of system capabilities. Theseare the basic questions which the index user may answer in such fashion:are there systems offering the essential combination of features? isthere a good number of desirable systems, portending a competitivechoice in cost, types of vendor support, proven system reliability, etc.?is the cost range of desirable systems within the funds available fora purchase or subscription? Positive answers should build confidencethat an economical, proven system can be obtained, while negative answersmay indicate a presently infeasible set of requirements or a constrainedarea where further research and system development is advisable.
It is suggested that each index user develop his own worksheet offeatures for his needs. Table 1 shows that the index permits a sharperdelineation of required features than used in Tables 2 to 5. It isexpected also that individual readers will perceive special featuresfor their need that are not used here, and will have to be speciallyinvestigated for all systems of interest. The index is meant to helpdraw attenti"n to that subset of systems of greatest interest and re-levance.
The index is primarily meant however to aid state-of-the-art assess-ments. We see in the index results many disparities calling attentionto needed research, and also many common factors indicating a readilyavailable, recognized feature. Regarding the former, we note particular-ly that only half of the systems have tutorial capability - yet none areconsidered trivial to use. The design of effective training aids andproblem diagnosis features is a very important area for further develop-ment. On the other hand, almost all systems offer English-like phrasingin their language style. This is encouraging for it is clearly desir-able and of little added cost to implement in terms of meaningful com-mand names. 11
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It is neither intended or recommended that the survey results orthe broad feature list should be adopted as the exclusive basis of asystem selection. A csmpetitive selection decision requires a much moredetailed matching of user requirements with functional features, coupledwith a productivity assessment addressing performance and cost factors.The background for this task necessarily involves familiarity with auser's. organization and its forcing constraints, such as the neededdata files and their characteristics, funds available, allowable imple-mentation time, present computer equipment, and available programmingskills. The tools to be employed in system evaluation include benchmarkexercises, performance monitoring, simulation and modeling, hands-onexperience, detailed documentation review, and thorough audit tests.Inasmuch as this survey has been based primarily on documentation review,it cannot be evaluative of one system against another. Managers facinga selection decision are advised then to acquire system documentation,at least to the level of a complete user's manual, and to undertakehands-on familiarization or benchmark exercises to thoroughly understandeach system's capability for his user community and procurement- con-straints.
14. SURVEY RESULTS
4.1 Indexes To Systems
As an aid to the reader, this section presents several examples ofclassification of information systems drawn from the questionnaires.Following is a brief description of each of the four illustrativeclassifications.
Applications:
As examples of application classes, there are three types considered:formatted data structured text and personal text. The relevant featureshave been described in Section 3.2. Table 6 presents a matrix for thiscategorization. This may help the reader direct his first attention tosystems closely corresponding to an intended usage.
Main Frames:
The matrix of Table 6 dealing with mainframes correlates the systemsin the survey with the (classes of) main frames on which each runs. Theclassification "other" is used for those main frames for which only oneof the systems is available. For these systems, reference to the spec-ific questionnaire will give the appropriate main frame (B.O.
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Ownership:
TWo categories are used to describe ownership of a system. The term"public" designates those systems in which the originator (or vendor)has not retained a substantial monetary interest, such as those whichhave been completely government funded. These systems are generallyavailable (source and source listings) for a nominal fee, such as tapeduplication. In some cases, the producer or vendor may only considerassistance for a fee, covering installation, modifications, and possiblymaintenance. This assistance may be contractual and include on-sitepersonnel in the case of packages, or resource costs, in the case ofservices.
The "proprietary" systems are those that are wholly owned by privateconcerns. Generally there is a purchase price on the system. Howeverin the case of some main frame manufacturers, the system may be availablewithout additional cost to the purchasers or lessors of their equipment.
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I4.2 The Inventory of Systems
Nam PageBASIS 18CDMS 19CIRCOL 20(Data /Central). . . 21DIALOG . . . .. . 22MARS . . 23. ....DML . . . 24.. . ..DRS . . 4 25....DS/3 . ... . 26EMISARI . . ... II . 27ENFORM . .. . 28FLEXIMIS .... 29GIM 30GIPSY . .. e 411 31MARS 32IMS(OEP) 33IMS/360 . . . 34IMS/8 35INQUIRE 36L4SYTE 37LEADERMART 38MARX IV 39MARS III . . . 40*SellMARS VI . s . . . 41MASTER CONTROL . . . . 42MICROTEXT . . . .. 43MINIDATA 44MIRADS 45FUSE 46NASIS 47N.Y.TIMES . . . . . 48OLIVER 49ORBIT III 50PIRETS 51QUERY UPDATE . . . . 52RAMIS 53RECON 54RFI 55RIOS 56
d,i,r..., SHOEBOX 57k SOLAR 58
SPIRES II 59STAIRS 60SYSTEM 2000 61TICON 62UNIDATA 63
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A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
C. FILE DEFINITION
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. 'MUST NAME FIELDS
Yes
1. USER DEFINABLE
Yes
b. HAY LIMIT FIELDS
Yes
1. SYSTEM NAME
BASIS (Battelle Automated
C. BOOLEAN AND
Yes
Search Information System)
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
Yes
d. BOOLEAN OR
Yes
ORIGINATOR
Battelle Memorial Institute
C. BOOLEAN NOT
Yes
505 Xing Ave.
3. REPEATED FIELDS
Yen
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
TELEPHONE
Columbus, Ohio 43201
C14-299-3151
EXPRESSIONS
a. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
Yes
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
D. PILL MAINTENANCE
SEARCE/NG
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
No
No
a. FOR PURCHASE
By special arrangement
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
i.RANGE SEARCHING
Yes
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
Approx. 530,010
Yes,
'1,00/mo.
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
C. DELETION
4, TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'KELP' CO?5(AND
b, DOCUMENTATION
No,
developed.
a. SEARCH SERVICE.
Battelle can develop a file and
provide search service for it.
d. EDITING
ON-LINE
Yes
Service also available through
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
S.SEARCH STRATEGY
membership in Science
Information Association (STA).
VALIDATION CHECKS
Yes
a. EANDOM
b, SEQUENTIAL
Yes
No
AT WHAT COST
File implementation cost +
on-line search cost
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING
ENTERED DATA
Yen
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
No
($0.50-0.75/min.)
b. DATA BASES
AMIC, MCTC, Copper Data, DOT -TRIS,
NTIS (3 yrs.), Chemical
4. AUTOMATIC OR
"ACHIEC -AIDED
E. PEPOPT GENERATION
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
Condensates (3 yrs.), DOD Cost
Data, and 26 others.
CONTENT INDEXING
Yes
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a.
STA
ND
AR
DOUTPUT
h. SELECT AMONG
Yes
DATA BASES
Yes
E. QUERY
OPTIONS
c. Ots7 CODE
Yes
Yes
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
July, 1970
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACT/ON
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
b. SIGNIFICANT
AT ANY POINT
Yes, prompting
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
INSTALLATIONS
Battelle, National Security
plus command
a. Orr-LINE PRINTING
Yes
Agency
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
Yes
PHRASING
C. SYSTEM-FORCED
Yes
c, SPECIAL OUTPUTS
Plotting on
micrGfilm
S. HISTORY OF SERVICE
DIALOGUE
No
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. COSTING
Yes
a. SERVICE INITIATION
July, 1970
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
b. SEQUENCING
No
b. PRESENT USAGE
Over 900 users, most at Battelle's
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
C. COUNTING
Yen
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
Information Centers.
Government
users include EPA, DOT, DOD.
b. FULL TEXT INVEREIoN
C. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
Yes
Yes
Yes
d. AR/TH"TTIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
Yen
1. MAIN FRAME
CDC 6400, UNIVAC 1108
RELATED TEES
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
Yes
1. TERMINAL
No
2. OPERATING SYSTE"
CDC SCOPE 3.2, 3.3, 3,4
TROLLED VOCABULARY.
Yes
2. DATA BASE
Yes
UNIVAC EXEC -13
3. RECORD
Yes
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
95% FORTRAN, 5% Assembler
4. FIELD
No
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
TTY compatible, CDC 200 series
terminals
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
110, 150, 305, 2000, 2400, 41300
baud
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA RASES
4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
CONS
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, Calif. 90406
213-393-9411
Available from COSMIC (Computer
Software Management and
Information Center of the
University of Georgia)
Software service available
(including on ARPA network)
$2,100 per month minimum
None public
Yes
IDES (predecessor of EDMS)
installed in may 1966
National Military Command
System Support Center, and CIA
Washington, D.C.
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION July 1969
b. PRESENT USAGE
2 accounts in Washington area
(ARPA network), usage unknown
R. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN rrAmE
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
IBM 360/50, IBM 370/145 and up
SDC's TS/EXEC, IBM OS/VS1
JOVIAL
IBM 2741, TTY models 33, 35
10, 15. 30 cps
No
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE.
2. "AR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED rIE.T.Ds
D. FILE, MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAM= DATA
VALIDATION CHECES
3. orT/ONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4. AVTOMA"'IC OP
mACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. (QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEm INTERACTION
a. muLTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNOMYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
No , 255 char. max.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes, if user defined
Yes, on user
designated fields
r,No
No
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
B. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT MAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY Or SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
n. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRAST FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
CIRCOL.
Foreign Technology Division
Air Force Systems Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio 45433
513-257-2G03
NA
Yes, to government agencies.
By arrangement.
Foreign scientific and
technical documents.
No
NA
Early 1969
40 agency users.
CIRCOL is built on IBM's
Document Processing System.
IBM 360/65
OS 360/MVT
Assembler Language
VP: 2741. TTY node's 33, 35
10, 15 cps
No
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. TILE MAINTENANCE
I. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
-
"ACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. OVER?
1. USER - SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. PULL TEXT INVERSION
c. S.TErmINC PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM In CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yen
No
Yes
.Yes
SoNo
No
No
Yeg
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No No
Yen
Yes
NO
NO
3.
SEARCH SPECIE/CATION
A. ".UST NAME FIELDS
No
h, mAY Limn- FIELDS
Yes
c. BOOLEAN AND
Yen
d. BOoLEAN OR
Yes
e. BOOLEAN NOT
Yes
f. NESTING OF DOOLEAN
ExPREsSIONs
Yes
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
Yen
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
No
1. RANGE .SEARCHING
Yes
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
A. 'DELP' CO "MAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON -LINE
5. =ARC! STRATEGY
a. ,..ANDOm
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
r. REPORT GENERATIM
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
"CODE
2. "EDIA ELExIBILTTy
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY Or GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
A. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE,
3. RECORD
4. El=
Ho
Yes, partlal
Ho
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
NONO
Yen
NoYes
Yes
Yes
CIO
NoNo
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1., SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
A. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
(Data/Central)
Plead Technology Laboratories
Research Park
Dayton, Ohio
45432
(513) 426 -3111
NO
Yes
$1500 a month for DOS, $1800 a
month for OS
Yes
$5,000 a month
American Psychology Abstracts,
data base of statutory and
decisional law in the state of
Ohio, and many others.
Yes
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. MAST INSTALLATION 1968
h. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
Wright- Patterson Air Force
Base, Union Carhide
5. IL STORY OF sEnvICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION 1969
h. PRESENT USAGE
10 organizational users
B. CONFUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN ERAME'
2. OPERATING SYSTEF
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERmINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RC-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE. USERS
Intt 360/40 and up
DOS or oS
Assembly, COBOL, FORTRAN
CRT, TTY, all INN hard copy
10, 30, 120 cps
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGPAmMED DATA
VALIDATION CLECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AuTOmATIC OP.
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
F. QUERY
1. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-PORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. h.
c.d.
c. f.
CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
FULL TEXT INVERSION
STEMMING PERMITTED
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yen
Yes
Yes
No No
Yes
?es
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yen
No
No
Yo5,
Yes
Yes, as
equivalents
Yes
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1, SYSTEM NA.mr
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. rOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. iJR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERV/2E
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA RASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
h. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
DIALOG
Lockheed Research Lab,
3251 Hanover
Palo Alto,Calif. 94304
Dr. Roger Summit
415-493-4411
Yes, by Govt.agencies
Negotiable
Yes, On installation and
maintenance basis.
Negotiable
Yes, Iron Lockheed Palo Alto
v:al telephone, TWX, and
Tymshare Inc. network for
dial-up user; also Lockheed
high-speed leased line.
Based on data base and
elapsed terminal hours.
Typically. 525/hr. on ERIC,
$35/hr. on NTIS, no minimum.
NTIS, ERIC, PANDEX, Psych.
Abstracts, CO°PENDEX, INSPEC,
and others.
Yes
1988 at Lockheed, serving
NASA--early version of PECON.
Lockheed, AEC (Oak Ridge), NASA,
European Space Research
Organization
1971 (ERIC),1972 (NTIS)
Nat.Institute of Education,
Dept. of Commerce (NTIS),
state, local and education
agencies; and Commercial users.
(More than 1,500 searches,
totally, per nonth)
IBM 360/370
OS/mVT
Assembler
ASCII compatible, IAN 2260,
CC 30
10-480 cps
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2.
"AR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT
3,
,EREATED rimar
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS. OH -LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMITD DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OE
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACH/NE-AIDED
CONTENT =En:RI
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h, ENGLISH-7./KE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABILARY
h. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
No
Yes
Yes ra:Itaction
may te
entered and
on-line
later
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No,Lut rEARCn
SAVE feature
sfores
e. I,ISPLAY 07
Yes
nrLATED TERMS
f. cnrCEINE TERM IN CON- Yes
TROLLED VOCABUIARY
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MEET NAME FIELDS
h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
e. BOOLEAN OP
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING or RooLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i.TANGS SEARCHING
4. TUTOR/AL FEATURES
a. 'HELP' COMMAND
b. nocuvraTATron
ON-LINE
5. reARcp STRATEGY
a. PANDOM
h. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED srovENTIAL
. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
Y. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF -LINE PRINTING
h. DIPPL1Y or GRAPES
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
as SORTING
h. SEOwEnCral
C. COUNTING
d.- ARITHMETIC
G. SECDPITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BATE
3.
RECC,F,I
4. FIELD
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes,
byacrzesstcr
Yes
Yes
No
NOYes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Tatlo
:'ficrcfsrm anc
;,-nctt,c7.1-A.titIch
thrttgn tatch
suOsyotem
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes, on terminal
tasis
No
Ho
A. GENERAL DESCRITTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
DEARS
Firs.. Data Corp.
400 Totten rend Rd.
Waltham, Mass. 02154
4,17-890-6701
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
NA
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
Yes
50.35/cpu sec + ,10/connect
hour.
DOT grants trace data base
(soon to be public), other data
bas-m on informal agreement
with user-owners.
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
Yes
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
NA
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
3rd quarter, 1972
b. PRESENT USAGE
30 users in DO"! (Off. of Sec.,
UMTA) + others
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
S. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RC- ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
DECSystem 10
TIM (modified by First Data)
FORTRAN + MACRO -l0
ASCII, IBM code comptible
In. 15, 30, 120 cps
Yes
C. PILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. RARIAELr LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
0. FILE "A/NTENANCE
1. ALLOWS oN-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. rDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED BATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDMINO or
ENTERED DATA
4. AuTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEU INTERACTION
a. mtnTIRLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Ye:.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
"res
Yes
No
No
No, embedded strin
search in named
field
Yes, by string
search
No:
No
No
3. SEARCH SPECICICATION
a. ',UST NAME r/r/or
t. MAY LIMIT rIELDF
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
C. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING Or BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
1. RANCE SEARCHING
S. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'HELP` COsSIAND
b. ooctrtcNTATroN
ON-LINE
5. rrAncu STRATEGY
A. RANDOm
b. SEQUENTIAL
C. INDEXED SEOuENTIAL
r. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. "'ELECT At,ro,:r
OPTIONS
OWN CODE
2. NEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF -LINT. PRINTING
h. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. scour,..cING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. nrcoko
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NO NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yec
Yes
.Yes
YAs
ro
No
Yes
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
7.7n
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
b.C.
AT WHAT COST
DATA BASES
TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGVIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
DML
Computer Sciences Corp.
Information Network Div.
650 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
El Segundo, Ca. 90245
213-678-0311
NA
Yes, package is available
CSC time-sharing service.
Government rates based on
usage.
None public
Yes
NA March 1972
Approx. 30 Covernment and
commercial users.
Univac 1108
CSTS
Assembler
mTY models 33, 35, 37; IBM
2741; CRT devices.
10-240 cps
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILL. MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON -LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
on
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
C. QUERY
1. FSER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a.
b. c.
d. e.
f.
CONTROIrFn VOCABULARY
FULL TEXT INVERSION
STErM/NG PERMITTED
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY or
RELATED TETIF
CHECKING Trn IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
No, 128
char:±ield
r126
tX.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No, but
programmable
in DML
No, but
programmable
in DXL
No
Yes
Yes
No
None directly
provided but
capabilities
prograrznable
in DRL
3. SEARCH spEcrrrcATron
a. MUST NAME FIELDS
b. MIY LI MIT FIELDS
c. BOO: JAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PHRASE. AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
q.
4. TUTORIAL rrATuREs
a. 'HELP' COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON -LIVE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. TtANDOm
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
r. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
C. OWN CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
C. SPECIAL OUTPLTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. szouzucina
C. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
SECURITY PROTECTION
I. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4.FIELD
Yes
Yen
Yes, for
,,rithmetic
omparison:1
Yes
NO
Yen
No
NoYes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Nn
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, through
operating
system
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILAD/LITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WIAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
h. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
DRS (Data Retrieval System)
A.R.A.P., Inc.
$0 Washington Rd.
Princeton, N.J. 08540
609-452-2950
Yes
$2300 (CK IBM 1130 version).
S2800 (ICK IBM 1130 version),
$9500 base for IBM 360/370
version.
Yen
S1IS-140/mo.
(2 Yr. payout for
Mr+ ..,30 versions.)
Yen
By arrangement
None of vide interest.
Yes
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
A. FIRST INSTALLATION 1970 (IBM 1130), 1973 (IBM 370)
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
Over 40 installations of IBM
1130 version.
S. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION NA
b. PRESENT USAGE
About 12 users
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING. SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERmINAL TYPES
S. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
IBM 1130, IBM 34/1/370
Gs/1130 version 2, OS/360,370
FORTRAN
IBM 2741, 1050, ASR-33 TTY
(with adaptor)
10-120 cps
No
c. PILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELD
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
E.
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL onorRiNc OF
ENTERED DATA
4. ANTOmATIC OR
mcurNr-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEri INTERACTION
a. 'IULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENc.L/sR-Lxxr
PHRASING
c. SYSTEm-FORCED
ovumaur
2. CONTENT :SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
h.
c.
d.e. f.
FULL TEXT INVERSION
STVTiING PERMITTED
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
CHECKING TM.. IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
NoYes
No, 1000
char/field
limit
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes, if
keyword field
defined for
a file
iio nnNn
No
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NAME ,-TELDs
b. '1AY LXRIT YIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING or BoOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
q. h. NATURAL rNOLTSn
i. RANGE SEARCHING
TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP" COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
A. RANDOm
h. SEOURNT/AL
c. INDEXED EEOUENTIAL
F. n.EpoRT GENERATION
1. LAurbAcr TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. Olvu CODE
7. !InarA FLEXIBILITY
A. OFF -LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF (MARRS
c. SPECIAL Or-TITS
3. SPECIAL ouvolLITrrs
a. SORTING
b. srouruczN:.;
c. CouNTIn.
d. ARITEmi-Z,"
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
I. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, phrases
only in one
fiell
Yes
None
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoYes, rag
tape and
hard copy
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ye%
Yes
Yes
Yes
A. crNrrAL nrSCrII,TI,^!
1. sYrTr- nA"r
oPICINATDk
TELL:WO:IL
2. SOPTWARE ADAILNUILITY
a. ror! runCVAsr
AT WAT ConT
L. rPR LrAru
AT WVAT CorT
3. rrTvICE AVAILUILITY
a. rEARCI! SErvICn
AT WrAT Cor.T
b. DATA EIASrr
c. TANrr CD'T(VTR
DATA AArEr
4. UIFTORY OF roTw7r17
a. rITzrT /NrTALLATION
h. rIC%/PICANT
INSTALLATIDr:r
5. UIFTOPY OP
a. rr71,ICE
b. PRESENT
r/1
Suter *)evolcoment Corp.
2%^^ Colorado :,ve
ranta **onion, Calif. 904N7
Yes
Terminal vernicn-rr-,,PD1.
Datch/TPO vorsion-^1^,^DD
Yon
Terminal. version-r2000 /mo.
ratch/TrO versioL-;^^V70.
run on SDc'n
Prices available on request.
:Ione
rsos custorer-sunrIloe data
loancn only.
April 19r^
Dont. of Eoalth, Education &
Welfare, Coast CorrUnity
Colleme District, Los
ngeles
POIjce Dept.
SEP!'/Cr
INTTTAT/nri
1973
urArrr
under nervice aerecncntn:
National Connision on the
rinancing of Post recondary
Education, t'CLA Creational
Cducatior
U. Cr?PUTPP r::rRonrnT
I.
!1 Arm rnA!Ir
2. DPERATINC SYSTE`,
3. SOUPCr. LANCVAnr
4. TET!INAL TYPEF
5. TnANP'/F5ION I2ATEr
C. Pr-CnTD.A:IT
TTLTIPIX usrrr
TIP* 30,A, nodel 40 and up,
370/145 and up
Or
rinL end *v1L
TTY node: 33, rr" 2741 nr
cornatil-le (?pukes; ""ro
vernion-i,hAtever device,: Tr°
supnortg.
In, 125, 240, 300 cps
Yes
C.r7;:
I. PF°
7.
'pr:Anr.
LY;;C:TP TEXT
3. Vrr,ATIP r1.7:1,1)F
D. riu 2.LLOW!,
cTTATTT:
T'rDATF
c.
r,ATA
"ALIDATio:: cnrcr:'
1. orTloAL ^rnr^r:X. or'
rNTPPFD
4. ,7J-1YY*ATIC DV
"ACUr:r-P.IDED
rov:TENO TEDEXINc
1. err*,-rYrTE" innTA!N'TioN
a. -rLTIPLE 00TIrr.:r
A71Y POTNT
rNt:L/5*P-LIET
PliPASV:C
c. ryrTr--rO,crl,
IJALocrL
2. CONTVNT :--rrneurNr
L..a. co:rnro1.1,7':> -oCArr1.7
'PTV:7T nr7-,r:r,r;
c.
nEDITTED
rr:nr:y"n
0. DIr7rLAV
LATVD Trnrs
f. crrCgr!:c TI'"'"
ror;-
-rourn
Yo,
Yrs
!,
4. *:ITOPIA:. rr1Tb71:r
"r;'Lr' c
rrAl"ci:
r. PIPD"T
Yos
(I'
,L')
I. LA%c:rAc
TYPF
a.
7.:?7:07',7D otTrtT
Yen,
1 hinds
=rc-7
OPTIONF
Yr,
" r'"% Com,
Yen
CDTA rLrxrrtTLITY
a. (1-r-Lnr rrInTTr,
L. .)If-PLAY ^r C'APP^
c. f7Pi-CIAL ot77PUTn
1. rrECIAL CEPriL/TTrr
a. roPTINC
b. rEoUT7:Crir
c. Cor*iTI*4-
O. EPJTP"ETIC
rECCPITT PROTICTIo**
I. TI-0777,:pt
2. DATA nArr
3. rrrOnn
4. rirl.p
Yen
Yrn
Yon
Yen
Yc
Yrs
Yrn
Yes
Yes
No Yes
A. nENEFAL DEncRIPT/oN
1. SYSTrm NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
7.
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
Sr,"ICE AVAILABILITY
a, SEARCH STRVICr
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTO "EP
DATA BASIS
EMISARI
Mathematics and Computation
Laboratory
Office of Emergency
Preparedness
7706 Old Springhousc Rd.
ncLean, Va. 22101
703-391-7710
Source free to government
users; compiler is proprietary
(see T.3)
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. rIRST INSTALLATION Aug..
1971
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
Internal aevenue Service,
Office of Emergency
Preparedness
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
RP
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USACE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRON
I. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYsTEm
3. socRoF LANGUAGE
A. TERMINAL TYPES
UNIVAC 110n
EXEC R
RBASIC (proprietary compiler;
vendor- LAnguAce And System
Development, Silver Spring,
Md.)
ASCII compatible
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
10 or 30 cps
K. RF-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
Yes
C. rTLE bErIniTioN
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. vAR/AnI27, LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED rIELDS
a.PILE mAINTENANCE
1. ALLOW, (N -LINE
a. CREATION
h. ('PRATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITiNc
2. PREpRoaRAmmED DATA
NTALIDATIoN cITECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
FNTERnu DATA
4. AETO"ATIC OR
"ACR/Nr-AIDM
CONTENT INDEXING
E. (+EERY
1. uscrsysTrm IFTFRAcTion
a. ":LTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. Enc.:LISP-LIFE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE.
2. CONTENT SEARCIUNC
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT nr,FRs/oN
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYWNNYMS
e. DISPLAY or
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Yen
Yen
No Yes
Yen.
Yen
Yen
Ye°
no
No Yen
no
ro Yes
NONoNo
No
C.. rEcuRITY PROTECT/OD
I. SEARCH SPEC/FICATIoN
A. 'R'ST NAmE FIELDS
Y. MAY 1..1"22 FIELDS
r. PoolEAN AND
d. PooLrAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NoT
f. NESTING Or .flooLrAN
v,YrPrSinNs
c. PPRAsr AND Disv.Ncr
sLAncianc,
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE srAncNiNc
4. TuTOR/AL FIVITURrE
o. "HELP' COMMA!D
b. DOCV"E'ITATI(V.
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RAND,Y1
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPr
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
h. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. r
coDr
'. mrDIA FLEXIPILITY
a. OFF-I./NU PR/NTINO
h. 13/SPLAY or CPAppS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. sprCIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. STOCII!X/NG
c. COUNTING
a. AR/TVMETIC
1. TFR?INAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. rrELD
NoTCR
Yen
Yes
Yen
Yen
Yes,
VnYen
Yes
Yes
Yon
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
NoNo
"0
No Vo
Yes
Yes
PI,E
d5e%
.
Yes
Yes, on text blocks
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR'PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
ENFORM
Engineering Numerics Cern.
8585 N. Stemmons Erwy.
Dallas, Tx. 75247
214-630-0640
Yes
Minimum software 525,000
Yen
Two-year lease, approx.
51250/mo.
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
NA
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION About 1868
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
NA
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
CDC 6000 series
SCOPE or !LIMNOS
FORTRAN, COBOL
CDC 200 terminal,
TTY - compatible
10 cps to 2400 baud
No
C. FILEDEriz!ITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3, REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE mAINTtNANcE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. upDATE
c. DELETION
U. EDITING
2.
PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING Or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1, rrER-sysTrr INTERACTION
a. mULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LIKE
PH RASING
C. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
C. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERN IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
fen
Yes
Nn en-line
capab.lity
Yen
No
No
No.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, cn user
:;peci!ied
NOYes
YO
S
Yes
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
A. "UST NA"L rump!:
7AY LTYIT FIELDS
C. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
C. POoLrAr NOT
f. NESTING OP BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PURASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE EEARCH/Nr
a.
4. TUTOR/AL FEATURES
a. *HELP' COMMAND
b. oOCCIENTATIoN
ON -LINE
SEARCH STRATEGY
a. %ANDO"
L. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQC"mmiAL
F. REFORT l_MNERAT/oN
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
h. SELECT AM(r:G
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. -,EDIA ELExTRILITy
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY of GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
e. ARITHMETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BAST,
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
YO5
Yes
Yes
YCS
Yes
Yon
No
!70
':CRC
Yes
Yes
NOYes (through
dictionary)
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAmr.
nR/c/NATon
TELSPHONE
2. sorTwARE AVAIUjAILITY
a. rnR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
h. 70R LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE A,AILAB/L/TY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
DATA rIASCS
c. TAKES CUSTITIER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE
.1. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. H/STOPY or SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
L. PRESENT USAGE
R. COMPUTER ENVTROT1ENT
1. '1A/N rR7vir.
2. (=RATING SYSTE74
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERN/NAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION PATES
F.7,..E-ENTRANT FOR
"uLTIrLn
CSER5
FLEXI!'IS
General r:lectric Co.
Information Services Bqsinenn
Division
7735 Old Georgetown Pd.
Bethesda,
20014
301-6;7-2120
Availat,le with time-h,lrini.,
ervice contract
None
Yes
1R71
Available on (7r national
netvork.
CE GOD series
cc rARK III time-nhArin7, system
BASIC, some assembler
TTY compatilac terminals
10, 15, 30 cps
c. riLE DEFINITION
1. DSFR DrrINABLr
7. vAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED
y'IL
DC
D. rILE NA.INTENANCE
1 ALLOWS oN-I.Tmr.
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE
c. DELETIO
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
"ALIDATION crrci:r
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTONATIC OR
"ACEINE-ATDED
CONTENT INDEXING
F. ourrY
unrr-sYsTcr, INTERACTION
a. !TULTTPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. SNCL/SH-L/KE
runiks/nc.
c. FyrTun-roRcto
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. conTRoLtrn VIICAnVLAPY
h. FULL TEXT INvERSTON
C. STEMNING rr.R.nrT.Trp
0. sYnonv,s
e. DISPLAY or
BELATED TErr.
f. CHECKING TERN IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yer,
Yes,
Ye,;
Yen
Yen (ejth own
code (PA:.:01
Ye.;
syntax)
Yes
;:one
3. srARcr SPECIFICATION
a. "UST twr FIELDS
h. !1AY LI1!IT FIELDS
c. nooLrAN
d. POoLEM:
orC. BOOLEAN r:o7
Yes
Ye,,
Yes
Yes
Yen, in
NESTING or BOOLEAN
FxprInslorr,
q. PFRASS AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
NC
h. NATURAL T:nclirr
No
i. DANCE szAncraNc
Yen
4. TUTORIAL rrATunr.s
a. "BELP" CO7S!AND
!ADCUmENTATION
oN-ITNE
None
S. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. ?ANDON
Nr.
srounNTIAL
Yes
C.INDEXED DEQUY'ITTL En
.5rporT crur7:ATTn!!
1. LANcrN7r TYPE'
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
I. SELECT AMONG
TONS
c. OY% coot,
2. !EDIA FLEXISIL/Ti
a. OFF-LINE RPINTI::c.
h. .YISPLAY or (773Apir
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
2. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h. SEOUINCING
C. coUNTING
d. rPrTr-rTic
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TEPeINAL
2. DATA
3. "FCC-ID
4. FIELD
Ycc
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yr!;
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yr75
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
I, SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2.
SOFTWARE. AVAILARILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. STARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA RASES
c. T1U
CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY of 'SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
D. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING sysTr
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
CI
TRW Systems Croup
7600 Colshire Dr.
"cLcan, Va. 22101
703-893-2SnO
No
Yet
Initial installation price
512,50n; monthly lease price
f;1.750 to commercial users,
Available to Government
agencies by contract.
'
Planned for Sept., 1973 under
Computer Sciences Corp. INEONET
time-sharing service.
January 1968
Department of Agriculture's
Forest Service, NASA's
anned
Space Plight Center
(2 versic is exist;
correspobding data on separate
lines)
'um 3(0 series
Univac 1100 series
OS. PCP/NPT or "VT, TS()
EXEC 8, EXEC 2
Assembler F
Univac Assembler
IBM I060, 22A0, 2741, 2780,
TTY, Uniscene. 1005
30 cps
120 cps
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DFFINABL.E
2. mApzARLE LENGTv TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE. MAINTENANCE
1. ALLour ON-LINE
a.CREATION
b. lTOA'rE
C. DELETION
d. ,:DATING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION cEscrS
1. OPTIONAL ORDETINC OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
mACHINE-AIDEO
CONTENT INDEXING
E. CUERY
1. USER-SYSTI. INTERACTION
a. mHLT/PLH OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENCLISP-LIKE
PHRASING
c. svSTEm-FORCED
D/Aiocur
2. CONTENT SEARCP/NG
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INvERsIoN
c. STEMPING PERMITTED
d. srNONvms
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TER ms
f. crECRING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
b.L'9
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, clements
only
No Yes
Yes
No Yes
NoNo
Yen
No
No
3. SEAPCP SPECIFICATION
a. 'lUFT MANE FIELDS
b. 'AY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. ROOLEAN JR
e. BOOLEAN NoT
f. EESTINC or bOoLEAN
EXPRESS IONS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARcnING
h. :AT,',_L ENG/xsu
i. ,ukuGr sEARcv/Ns
9.
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP" CO'1AND
h. DOCUMENTATION
oN-LINE
S. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
5. SEQUENT IAL
c.
INDF.XEE, :31:1-;L:;7=AL
r. REPORT CEEERATION
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoNo
Yes
No
No Yes
NQ
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD ouTPNT
Yes
b. sELEcT AR,ONC
OPTIONS
c. ovN CODE
2. '/ED/A FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-.LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUn
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
L. SEoUENCING
COUNTING
J. ARITNFETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. CECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
A. GrNERAL DESCRIPTION
C. FILE DEFINITION
3. SEARCH spEc/rTcATIoN
a. MUST NAE. FIELDS
Yes
1. SYSTEM NAME
GIPSY
1. USER DEFINABLE
Yes
b. MAY LIMIT rIELDS
Yes
ORIGINATOR
University of Oklahoma, Office
c. BOOLEAN AND
Yen
Of Research Admin.,
1808 Newton Drive,
Norman, Oklahoma,730f9
7. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
Yes
No
d. DOOLEAN oR
c. BOOLEAN NOT
'. !MEETING OF BOOLEAN
Yes
Yes
TELEPHONE
405-321-6012
EXPRESSIONS
q. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
Yes
7. SOFTWARE. AVAILABILITY
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
SEARCHING
Yes
a. FOR PURCHASE.
Yes, federal government and
non-profit organizations.
1. ALLOWS ON -LINK
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
Yen,
tOs
AT WHAT COST
$8,000 4 5550 per month during
a. CREATION
No
first year; includes training,
installation, and maintenanc.
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
NoNo
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP" COMMAND
Y, 5
b. F
OR
LE
ASE
Monthly charge reduced after
one year.
No
d. EDITING
2. PRE:YROGRJ=ED DATA
No
b. o0CuMENTATION
ON-LINE
Ye
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
VALIDATION CHECKS
Yes, 13yntax
errors only
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
b. SEQUENTIAL
No
Yes
a. SEARCH SERVICE
Yes, through Univ. of Oklahoma
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
C. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
No
Computing Center
ENTERED DATA
NO
AT WHAT COST
By arrangement
b. DATA RASES
U.S. Geological Survey and
4. AUTOMATIC OR
F. REPORT GENERATION
American Petroleum Institute
data bases, by special
MACHINE -AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
Yes, via a
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
C. TAKES CUSTOMER.
arrangement.
separate
program
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
Yes
DATA BASES
Yes
E. QUERY
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
Yes
Yes
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
Operational at University of
a. MULTIPLE' OPTIONS
2. MEDIA rLEXIBILITY
Oklahoma since July 1968
AT ANY POINT
Yes
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
Yes
h. SIGNIFICANT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
b. DISPLAY or GRAPHS
No
INSTALLATIONS
Department of Interior (USGS),
University of Missouri,
Oklahoma State Univ., U.S.
Dept. of Commerce (NOAH)
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
Yes
no
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
Yes,
Yes
Yes
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
C. COUNTING
Yen
a. SERVICE INITIATION
1973
h. FULL TF"T INVERSION
Yes
d. ARITHr'ETIC
Yes
PRESENT USAGE
Not available
C. STEMr/%7 PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
Yes
No
C. DISPLAY OF
SECURITY PROTECTION
8. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TER' IN CON-
No
1. TERMINAL
No
1. MAIN FRAME
360 series, minimum of two
TROLLED VOCABULARY
No
2. DATA BASE
Yes
2311 disk drives, 90K bytes
3. RECORD
No
Storage
4. FIELD
No
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
OS/360
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
360 Assembler
4. TERmINAL TYPES
IBM 1050, 2741, and TTY
terminals
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
110 to 150 Baud
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
No
microfilm
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT cosy.
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT NEAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
/MARS
Interactive Sciences Corp.
60 Brooks Or.
Braintree, Mass. 02184
617-848-2660
No
Yes, on perpetual license
$5k
Yes
Surcharge for use over normal
time-sharing cost
($3.75/connez hour
$.0025fresource unit)
Yes
4. HISTORY Or SOFTWARE
NA
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
4th quarter, 1972
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
Data net available
DECSystem 10
TSM
FORTRAN
MACRO -10
ASCII, IBM Correspondence code
teruinals
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
10, 15, 30 cps
6. PZ-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
Yes
C. TILE DEFINITION
USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE, MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CUECXS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACRINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. "uLTIRLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENCLISII -LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
C. STEMMING PERMITTED
d.
e.
f.
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUET NAME FIELDS
Yes
b. NAY LIMIT FIELDS
C. BOOLEAN AND
Yes, up to 2,000
d. BOOLEAN OR
characters long
e. BOOLEAN.NOT
No
f. NESTING OP POGLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
q. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Partial; some
modules are
dialogue driven
NoNo Yee
(".hararter
string search)
SN7X117S
No
orrTLAy 0,
7FLAM) TENS
No
CrrcnrC
Crvr-
TonLLr;',
()CLArY
No
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTOR/AL FEATURES
a. -UELP* coprIAND
b. DOCUMENTATION.
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a- nANDOM
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AmoNG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. 'tEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. AR/T1NETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No No
Yes, by
character
string
search
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoNo
Yes
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
NO
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA 71ASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
IMS of Office of Emergency
Preparedness
Executive Office of the
President
Office of Emergency
Preparedness
Washington, D.C. 20504
202-395-4831
Yes
Free for government users
NANA
NA
The random access version was
operational since 1971
None
NA
UNIVAC 1108
EXEC S
VULCAN
(a string processing
language) plus assembly
language plus FORTRAN interface
Any TTY and CRT terminals in
use on the 1108
10,15,30 cps
Yes, due to property of VULCAN
C. FILL DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
Yes
2. VAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT
Yes
3. REPEATED FIELDS
No
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE -AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes,
command-like
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
V4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
IMS/360 Version 2 with SOF
(Information kianagement System
with Interactive Query Facility)
IBM
1133 westchester Ave.
White Plains, N.Y. 10604
LoCal Representative
NO
Yes
5550/mo.-I.S/360 V2 (basic
system)
+:562S/m0.-DatA Comm. Feature
+5300/mo.-I0E
NA
Nov. 1972
Not available
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
NA
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENvIROUmENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT roR
MULTIPLE USERS
/Dm 360, 370
OS/PT, rvT, vs 1, VS 2
Assembler
TRm 3270, 2260, 2265, 2740,
1050
134.5, 600, 1200, 2000, 2409,
4800, 7290 bps
Partial (will support multiple
Users)
C. PILE DEFINITION-
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS
a, CREATION
b. urnATr
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2, PREPROGRAMITD DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
mACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
P. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEu INTERACTION
a. !!uLTIrLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRAsINC
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b, FULL TEXT It vrRSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYUS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
No
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yen
No
Yen (using
"null" words)
No
None
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a.MIST NA!.5 : FIELDS
b. "AY LimIT =Los
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
C. BOOLEAN NOT
NESTING Or BooLEAN
CXPRE,SSION::
q. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
rrA7cnINc
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
TUTOPIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP" Cel!".MAN!:
b. D
OC
LP.r.NTAT /ON
OH -LINE
SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
h. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
S. T,TPORT ortzrywrIfy:
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
h. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. EDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. ,0-F-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY Op GRARBS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h, SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TEPJUNAL
2. DATA BAST:
3. 7.:CORD
4. FIELD
Yes
YeS
Yen
fns
Yes
Ye5
NOHO
Yes
None
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoNo
Yes
Yes, with CPT
Eo
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NONo
A. GENERAL GESCRIPTION
1. sYsTrrt NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT Cor,T
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
h. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a, SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TrRmINAL TYPES
S. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. 7E-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
srrRry RAND Corp.
UNIVAC Div.
2121 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
202-338-9500
Available at no charge
UNIVAC 1108 users
NA 1969-1970
to
About 45, incl. HUD, NASA,
SGA, other Government agencies.
NA
UNIVAC 1108
EXEC 8
COBOL, Assembler
TTY-compatible
10-30 cps
Yes
C. FILE DErtN/TIoN
1. USER DrrrNABLr
2. vAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. PEPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON -LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE - FIELD
CONTEN7 INDEXING
F. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. sTrmmxtm PERMITTED
(1. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
No Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
3. SEARCb SPECIFICATION
a. "VET NAM: rirLDs
h. !AY LIMIT riELDs
C.,DooLrAN AND
d. BOOLEAN oR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NEST/NC or BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h.
ENGLISH
t. RANGE SEARCP/NC
4. TUTORIAL FrATUvYS
a. 'HELP' COemAND
b. f>ocumcNTATIoN
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. Tuvmorl
h. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
r, REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
h. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE.
2. mEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF -LInn PRINTING
h. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OCTPUTE
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COVETING
d. ARITHMETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3, 'RECORD
4. FIELD
Yen
Yes
Yen
Yen
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
None
No
NoYes
Yes
NoYes
Yet
No
No
'Yes
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yen
No
No
A. GENERAL DEsCRri,:ioN
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
h. DATA EASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
E. R. Squibb & Sons, state cf
Ohio, LEAA, EPSO
INQUIRE
Infodata Systems, Inc.
1901 N. Fort Myer Dr.
Arlington, Ma. 22209
703-524-6700
Yes
:,38,S00
Yes
;.1,325/mn.
NA
July, 1969
5. HISTORY Or SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. .'OURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
::A
IDT! 3GO,
OS
PL/1
TTY, ID'! 2741,
or compatible
370, mod 4G & up
As supplied by particular
environment
No
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. NsER DEFINAELE
2. VAR/A.11LE LENCTP TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
0. FILE AINTENANCE
I. 1LLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROCRAMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECK,'
3. OPTIONAL OPMERINC OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OP
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
F. OUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENCL/SH-LINE
plIRAEINc-
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCH/NC.
CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b.
c.d, e.
f.
FULL TENT INVERSION
STMMING PER/TTFD
SyNoNyr1S
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yen
Yen
Yen
Updates indices,
new records
appended
No
Yes
Yen
Opt
iona
l
Yes, via AVOCON,
an associated
thenauru,,,
handling package
Yes
Yes
with AVOCON
with AVOcoN-
Yes
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. 'NET NA!E FIELDS
h."AY LPIT FIELDS
C. BOOLEAN AND
d. sooLEAN op
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. ::LSTING OF NOOLEAN
FYPPESnIONS
q. PHRAEE AND DIETANCE
SEARCHING
NATURAL EEGLIrE
i.
EZARCHINC
4. TNTOPIAL FEATURES
AHELP" COMMND
L)oCUMENTATION
5. SEAPCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
b. SCONENTIAL
C. 7NDEXED SEOUENTIAL
r. ErpoET GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. ETANDAPM OUTPUT
t. `ELECT A"ONC
OPTIONS
c.
O':77 CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF -LINE P'uNTINr:
h. :ASPLAy OF GRAPH_'
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h. SroutEX/NO
c. COUNTING
d.ARITIPCTIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TET1INAL
2. DATA BASE
3.P_Econo
4. FIELD
NO
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
NeCo
YeS
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, if
requested
Yes, if
requested
A_ GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
h. FOR LEASE.
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE. AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA OASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
INSYTE (Information Svstens
Technology)
Tsponse Technology, Inc
4064 S W Donovar,
Seattle, Washington 98136
206-937-7845
Yes
$27.000
Yes
$12,Snn
5425 month
May be available on
time-sharing services
1970
Remote Computing COrp., Univ.
of Washington
Burroughs B-5500
Burroughs Time-sharing
COBOL
TTY compatible
10, 15, 3P cps
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. "AR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS oN-LINI
a. CPFATION
h. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d, EDITING
2.
PREPROGRAMMED DATA
mALIDATION CRECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
r.
QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PER"ITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Nn
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
NO
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a.
L.c.
d. g h i.
UL'GT NAME FIELDS
MAY LIMIT FIELDS
DooLFAN AND
BOOLEAN OP
BOOLEAN NOT
NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
NATURAL ENGLISH
RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP' COMMAND
DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
h. SEQUENTIAL
C. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL.
r. REPORT cFNERATIOT1
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
N. :;ELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
C. OWN CODE
2.
MEDIA FLEX/r/LITy
a. OFF -LINE PRINTING
h. DISPLAY OF GRAPES
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
N. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
Cl. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMIrAL
DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yon
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
YPS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
NoNo
YeF
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA RASES
4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE.
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
A. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTE!"
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
LrAnrRmART
Center for Information Science
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
215-91-700S, XF31
By arrangement
Yes
$55.00 per connect hour (545.00
for government users)
Chemical Abstracts, Engineering
Index, Civil Engineering, and
Tall Buildings (locally
defined)
Yes (pp arranp,e_nt)
Only implemented at Lehigh
March, 1971
Currertly serving 12
interdisciplinary research
Centers at Lehigh, seven local
colleges, Federal agencies, and
industrial Customers.
CDC (400
'CORE 3.3, INTERCO" 3.0
Primarily FORTRAN
TTY and CRT
110, 300, 1200, 2400 baud
No
C. FILE DEFINITION
I. vsFr 6EFINAHLE
2. ,AnrAFILT: LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE .AINTENANCE
1. ALLoW7 0E-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPPOCRN-VtED HATA
VALIDATION CUECEF
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING Or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OP
'1ACKINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
C. QUERY
1. 1,srp-sYsTr J.NTrRAcTroN
a. t.uLTIFLr OPTIONS
AT ANY.POINT
h. ENGLISH -LIKE
PHRASING
c. sYsTsm-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
h. Feu TEXT INVERSION
c.
TERMITTED
d. syrioNYmn,
C. DISPLAY Or
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECEING TERM IN CT:-
TRILLED VOCABULARY
Yes, with
Yes
Yes
Nono
NoNO
Yes
Yes, merge records
into
but
1-eldr: 1T:to reccrs
Yes, a separate
eXi5ts
Yes
YES
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NA.
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a.
NAM FInun
!). MAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN (IR
C. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING or nooLrAN
:7yynmsszons
g. PHRASE ANo DISTANCE
ESA! CEINC
h. NATURAL r..-NcLrF.R
RANCE SEARCHING
4. Tt2TerRIAL rrA71.7nr:s
a.
"IG31.17" CO'TAND
DoCtR!ENTATION
S. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDGe
b. Fronr!rrIAL
c, morxrL sLournTIAL
P. 7rnoRT GC :: RATION
1. LArxxAcr TYPE.
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b, CFLCCT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. oVN CODE
2. ".CDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF - LINE PRINTING
h. DISPLAY CF GRA;pm-,
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. AnTrmFTIc
C. sr:curl-Tv PROTECTION
1. TT:PR/NAL
2. DATA nAsr
3. 7u:copo
4. FIELD
NoNo
NoNo
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
no
Yes
no
No
NO
Yes
Yes
No
Yen
Yet
Yet
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
b. c.
AT WHAT COST
DATA BASES
TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
MARK IV (with on-line special
feature)
INFORMATICS, Inc.
MA di IV Systems Cc.
21550 Vanowen St.
Canoga Park, CA
91003
(217) 887-9121
Yes
$37,000 + $10,000 for On-line
feature
Yes
Many plans, including
installment purchase
Yes, through commercial time-
sharing companies.
Machine utilization costs plus
surcharge.
N/A
Yes
Evolved from "ARE I. II, III
1968
U.S. House of Representatives,
NEW, Federal Reserve Board, GM,
EXXON, Eastern Airlines
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
1972
b. PRESENT USAGE
Not available
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. REENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
IBM 360
OS/360 with TSO (for On-line
feature), or with VP/CSS on
360/67; OS/VSI
Assembler
Any standard device
Any standard rate
No
C. FILE nrETDITrou
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. PILE rA/NTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON -LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROCFate*ED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. PITHY
1. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY or
RELATED TERMS
f, CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yee
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yen (automatic
with appropriate
file structure)
No
EDIT IV is only
interactive part
of system; query
is remote batch
or time-shared
execution with
on-line
preparation
Yes
No
No, prompting
as appropriate
None, but Text
Processing
Special Feature
can be used to
program text
search procedures
3. nEAREE FPECIF/CAT/ON
a. euFT NarT FIELDS
b. "AY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BooLEA::
d. BooLEAN on
0. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING Of BOOLEAN
ExrnEnsloNs
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTOR/AL rEATUPTS
a. "HELP* coMeAND
b. nocumENTATIoN
oN-LINE
SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
b. SEQUENTIAL
C. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
REPORT CENERATIoN
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
C. O
M:CODE
2. rDTA FLEXIBILITY
a, OFF -LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY Or CRAPRF
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEOUENC/NG
c. COUNTING
d.
AR
IT1P
'ET
/C
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA RASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Ye
Ycs
?es
Yes
No
NoYes
Yes
Yes
( by
As file
aefined
'es (by
eod.)
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
YO
S
Yes
No, but
ter
may
prrgrari
thet.
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
S. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
MARS III
CONTROL DATA Corp.
5272 River Rd.
Washington, D.C. 20016
301-652-2268
NO
Yes
5500 initial + $300/mo. royalty
NA
April, 1970
U.S. Coast Guard, New York
Dept. of Education, Hughes
Aircraft Corp.
NA
CDC 3300, 3500
MASTER
COMPASS (90%), American National
Standards Institute COBOL (10%)
CRT, TTY
Up to 4800 baud
No
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. U96-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
No, but
tiEld
length is
defined by
user
Yes
No on -line
maintenanc
Yes
Yes,
automatic
NO
Query inpu
executed
in batch
None
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NAKE FIELDS
h. "AY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
ExpREssxoNs
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
9.
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. `HELP" COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
S. SEARCH STRATEGY --
a. n_ANDOm
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SENTENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. mED/A FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
h. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
C. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes (ANCNCT)
Yes, one level
NoNo
Yes
Norte
NoNo
Yes
Yes
NoYes
Yes
NoNo
Yes
NO
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
MARS VI
Control Data Corp.
5272 River Rd.
Washington, D.C. 20016
301-652-2268
So, but perpetual
license
available for $18K
Yes
$600/mo. (commercial royalty)
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
NA
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
S. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
late 1969
About 10 incl.
NSRDC, Univ. of Texas, Michigan
State Univ.
NA CDC CYBER/70, 6000 series
SCOPE 3, INTERCOM 4
FORTRAN, COMPASS
TTY 33, 35; CRT
10-30 cps, 100 cps, 2400baud
No
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1.eslm-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
ENGLISH -LIKE
PHRASING
SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
b. C.
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. rum. TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECHING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Automatic
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
NoYes
Yes
Yes
No
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. ,ILTST NAME FIELDS
h. NAY LIMIT FIELDS
C. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. *HELP' COMMAND
b. DOCIRTNTAT/ON
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
b. SEQUENTIAL
C. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NO
No
Yes
None
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
None
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAmE
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
MASTER CONTROL (Version 3)
Information Research Group
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
University of California
P.O. Box 808
Livermore, California 94550
415-447-1100, X3132
Information available on
request
No
Yes
Information available on
request
44 major data bases, including
Nuclear Science Abstracts, SPIN,
Chemical Titles, and
Engineering Index
Yes, if programmatically
related to Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory
December, 1968:
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
December, 1968
1,400 searches per month
CDC-6600/7600
FROST/FLOE
LRLTRAN
TTY and CRT
4800 baud (110 baud with
acoustic couplers)
No, net necessary
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
0. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. Ar.LOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
I. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
h. FULL TEXT INVERSION
C. STEMMING PERMITTED
d.e.
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
yes, also
arbitrary
string
matching
Yes
Yes, if
provided
by user
Optional
3. SEARCH .SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NAME FIELDS
h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
c. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
q. h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'HELP' COMMAND
b. DoCumENTAT/oN
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
h. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
h. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. orr-LINE PRINTING
h. DISPLAY OF CRAPES
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. AR/THMITIC
C. SECURITY PROTECT/ON
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Open length
pnrases;
nc, distance
searching
No Yes
Some prompting,
error correction
No
Yes
Yes, optional
Yes, optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
microfiche. 16
and a5 mm film
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTI")N
1. sYsTr NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
m/CROTEXT
"ITRE Corp.
Ledford, Mass. n1735
Contact: Henry A. Day rd
1.17-271-7517
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
A. FOR PURCHASE
Yes
AT ?MAT COST
Ly arrangement with mITRE Corp.
b. FOR LEAsr
AT MAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
h. DATA BASES
C. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA OASES
Yes
By arrangement
None
Yes
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION 1,172
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY Or SERVICE
a. srwxcE INITIATION
h. PRzsENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRON"ENT
1. MAIN FRAME
OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TEE ICAL TYPES
5. TRANSmISSION RATES
iron In (Teletype) to 800,000
(rwl 3270 displays) cps
with MITRE Corp.
None, other than "ITRE
II3
3$15/375 (ICR0TE= requires
700E bytes of core)
OS/"VT with TFO
PL/I
Any terminals supported Ly TSO
c. RE-ENTMNT FOP
r'ULTIPLE USERS
No-relies on TEO to support
multiple users
C.
J=.1:!ITio;;
1. uscR DEFINABLE
vARIAPLE L "NC.TL TEXT
1. rEPEATED FIELDS
D. rILE "AINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDAor.
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. ppErroGRArvIED DATA
"ALIDATION CHECKS
3. 'OPTIONAL ORDERING Or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOmATIC OR
mACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLIsp-LIEE
PHRASING
c. sysTr*.-roncED
DIALOGUE
7. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
h. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEmING PERmITTED
e.
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TnouLro VOCABULARY
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Ycn
Yes
No
NoYes
Yes, left,
right, or
both
Yes (user
definable)
N0 .
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. "UST NAE =IL's
b. MAY LIIT P/ELDs
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. poorrAn op
e. BOOLEAN NOT
NESTING or BOOLLAN
EXPRESSIONS
q. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCU/NO
h. NATURAL ENGLIsn
i. RANCE SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL rrApunrr
a. 'YELP' COmYAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
S. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. NANNY'
h.
NlTIAL
C. mprxrD SEQUENTIAL
r. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OLTPUT
h. SELECT AmoNG
OPTIONS
C. OWE CODE
,. 91:D/A FLEXIBILITY
a. Orr-LINE PRINTING
h. DISPLAY OF GRAPES
C. sprcIAB OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
C. COUNTING
d. AR/TmrTIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TER"INAL
.. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
NoYes, nay
limit to
pre-establi5%,/
text. F.egmel:!,
Elver
1,nn ol
'-x
Yes
Yes
Ne
Yes
Yes
Ne
No
Ne
Yes
NO
Yes
!In
Yen
10Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Provided by TSO
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
I. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b.
c.
DATA BASES
TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. F'RST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
MINIDATA (for small data Bases)
United Computing Systems
3130 Broadway
Kansas City, Mo. 64106
816-753-4500
Yes (limited license)
Approx. 510,000
Yes
Approx. $400-$500/mo.
Yes
317.50 (10 cps), $21.00 on
Cps) /connect hour
None
Yes
Aug., 1971
Only VCS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION Aug., 1971
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
More than 500 users
CDC 6000 series
MAX (in-house) or KRONOS (CDC)
FORTRAN, COMPASS
All low speed terminals; CDC
200 USER terminal compatible
10-30 cps
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
A3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE -AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
S. (QUERY
1. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
No Yes
Yes
,Limited
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
None
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
C. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CUECRING TER" /N CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. "UST NAME FIELDS
h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'HELP' COMMAND
h. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
S. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b, SELECT AMONG
=ions
c. OWN CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECT/ON
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. .rcoRD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoNo
Yes,
None
No Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoNo
--*
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA RASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
"IRADS
Data Center Division
NASA
Marshall Space Plight Center,
Alabama 35812
205-453-1205 (technical)
205-453-4181 (administrative)
Available through COSMIC
-
(Computer Software Management
and Information Center at the
University of Georgia)
Not generally available
late 1471
Federal Communication
Commission, University
Alabama, Huntsville
NA
UNIVAC 1108
EXEC 8
80% COBOL, 19% FORTRAN,
Assembler
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TENT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. r/LE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOUS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
"ALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
of
CONTENT INDEXING
UNISCOPF CRT, DCT 500 hard
copy, nCT 2000, TTY, UNIVAC
9300, UNIVAC 1004
Device dependent
No
F. QUERY
1. u5Er-sYsTE!! INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. uNcuxsit-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-roRcEn
DIALOGUE
Yes
yes, abstract
length only
Yes
'Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, for
records in
file but not
fields within
record
No
No
Yes
Yes
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Open-ended
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION_
No
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
Yes, any word
11- portion of
award
d. SYNONYMS
Yes
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
No
f. CHECKING TERN IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
3. sEARcr SPECIEICATION
a. !.T.7sT NAME =Los
b. MAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
c. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. I,ERASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP* COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
mN-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. PANDO"
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED '::EQUZNTIAL
P. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c.
CODE
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yen
Yes, tc,
level
f±
No
InYes
None
Yes (inverted
list)
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
2. mED/A rLEyinILvry
a. OFF -LINE PRINTING
Yes
h. DISPLAY OF GPAPEC
Yes
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
.Yes, magnetic
tape
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITPmETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA nAsr
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yen
A. CrmrAL DESCRIPTION
1. sYrTr".NA!'r
nrInINAT(IR
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2. 5orvAar AVAILARTL/TY
a. rm puncrAFr
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L 14 Street Apt
Nov York, Ilea' York, lhn,'^
71.7-417-4^74
Contact: coerce POttn
Yen
Neertim1le
Yen
Negotiable
3. srPrict PrAILADILITY
Software service has been
available on Tyrnhare
n. SrAPCP SEPVICr
AT !'VAT COrT
b. DATA BAnrs
c. TurS CvSTovE0
DATA PASTS
4. RISToRY or SOFfiMAPE
a. rr7sT INSTALLATION
b.sIGN/FIcNIT
nrTALLATInNs
c. HIrTertY (IF srinricr
4. Srrr'-tCi:
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B. co,TuTEn EN,'Ipo!vrNT
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2, ormATrIc rYrTr,.
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TMR"INAL TYPIT
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,ULTIPLE usrPs
Installed briefly at Jepartment
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Xerox corp.
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No No
Ynn
Yen
7c
Yes
ve,
Yer
Ycr
Yen
Nn
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
h. DATA BASES
C. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
aFIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
S. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
NASIS
Computing Services Division
NASA, Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio 44135
216-433-4000, X795
Yes
Available to government
agencies
No
No
NA
No
September 1970
Carnegie Mellon University
NA
IBM 360 or 370
OS/MVT
Mostly PL/1, some Assembler
IBM 2741/1050 and TTY
compatible devices
110, 150, 300 or 1200 baud
Yes
C. rILE orrINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. rILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE -AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. `MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIRE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM - FORCED
DIALOGUE
Yet-.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, separate
utility packge
Yes
Yes
No
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CM/TROLL= VOCABULARY Yes
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
Yes
c. STEMmING PERMITTED
Yes
d. SYNONYMS
No
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
Yes
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NAM: FIELDS
b. mAY LIMIT FIELD:-;
c. BOOLFAU AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. -BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOoLJNd;
EXPPESSIONS
"'ERASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
g.
4. TUTOSIAL REATURES
a. "HELP* COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATI:CY
a. RANDOM
b. SEQUENTIAL
C. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
r. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. *1EDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY Or GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b.SEQUENCING
C. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Not on-line
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoYes
Yes
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM,NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a, FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH'SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF
a. SERVICE
b. PRESENT
SERVICE
INITIATION
USAGE
8. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
-6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
THE NEW YORK TIMES INFORMATION
BANK
Information Services Division
The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, N.Y. 10036
212-556-1031
No
Planned for future.
Yes
5675 per month minimum,
exclusive of equipment.
Abstracts of New York Times
articles (1970 to present) plus
selected abstracts from other
sources
Not at present
NA
Late 1972
64 in-house terminals. Around
15 outside subscribers,
including Department of State,
Library of Congress, and
University of Pittsburgh
IBM 370/145
DOS
PL/1, IBM 370 JAL, CO3OL
Incoterm SPD-10/20 CRT terminal
for outside subscribers
2000 or 2400 bps
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1, ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2, PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. c.
d.e. f.
FULL TEXT INVERSION
STEMMING PERMITTED
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
No
Yes
Yes. for index
terns and certain
bibliographic
elements
Yes, to establish
temporary file;
permanent file
established via
later batch run
Yes, in
temporary file
Yes, in
temporary file
Yes
No, with certain
exceptions
Not relevant
to users
No
Yes
Yes
Yes, except
when entering
search terms
Yes, open-ended
vocabulary now
contains about
200,000 terms
NOYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. EAST NAME FIELDS
h, "AY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
P. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
e. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'HELP* COMMAND
h. DOCUMENTATION
nN -LINE
5. SEAECH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
t. SEQUENTIAL
C. INDEXED SEOEENT/AL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b, SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
C. OWN CODE
2. "EDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
C. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECT/G)
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA EASE
3. rcorD
4. FIELD
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
NONoYes, for
date of
publication
Not needed
pecause of
tutorial
sequence
Yes, with
abbreviation
optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes,
microfilm,
microfiche
Yes, by date
Yes
Yes
No
Yen
Yes
No
No
P. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b.c.
DATA BASES
TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SE'n'ICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER EN"IRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAP53
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. 'TRANS! ISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
OLIVER
On-Line Systems, Inc.
115 Evergreen Heights Dr.
Pittsburgh, Fa. 15229
412-931-7Ce4
By arrangement
Yes
;.10.0n/Connect hour
$0.05/computer processing
unit
$1.50/psu/mo.
Standard c Poor's Daily Report
Yes
NA
1970
About 5n companies, 10-20 user,
each
DECSystem In
TOPS -10 monitor (variant)
MACRO-10 (arsembler)
TTY-compatible, 2741 - compatible
10-12n cps
Yes
c. rxtc orrt5aTrou
1. urrn orr:aAnix
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. PILE mA/NTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING.
2. PREPROCRAmMED DATA
VALIDATION cvrcrr
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT nonxINc
E. PURR?
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENCLISN-LIKE,
PNRAS/NC
c. nrsTr-roRcro
orALorwr
Yen
Yen
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
New records are
appended or else
go into holes
left by deletions
No Yes
Yes
2. CONTENT SEARCPInG
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY No
b. FULL
INVERSION
No
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
Yes; also embedded
String searching
d. SYNONYMS
Yes
e. DISPLAY or
RELATED TERMS
No
f. curcximl TERM IN CON-
TRoLxrD VOCABULARY
NA
'A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASS
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA RASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. S/CNIFICNT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SUNICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. P,ESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TEIVIINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
ORBIT III
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave.
Santa "onica, Calif. 90406
213-393-9411
Yes
$47,500
Yes
$950 per month plus s2,000
startup charges
Yes
$22.00 to $35.00 per `our.
ERIC, CA Condensates, and CAIN
MEDLINE available to a
restricted customer set.
Yes
1970
National Library of medicine.
SDC, CarOlinska Institute of
Stockholm, Dept. State, SUNY
(Syracuse)
1972
Over 50 organizations
IBM Series 360, 370
ospIFT, OS/YVT, VS/2
PL/1
TTY, IBM 7741, and others
10, 15, 30 ws
Yes
c. r/LF DEFINITION
1. urER DNFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE
c. DELE7/oN
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRIMED DATA
vALIDAT/ON CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOATIC OR
MACEINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. OUFRY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LIKE
PNRAS/NG
c. SysTml-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b.C.
d.
Futi. TEXT INVERSION
STEMMING rETTITTED
SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
Yos, vith
acsistance
Yes
Yes
En
Yet.
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes, via an
optionai
separate
package
Yes
Yes
Yes, if user
supplied
NoYes
Yes, if
established
at file
el-cation
Yes, with
special
programming
f. CHECKING GERM IN CON'..
Yes, if user
TRCLLEL VOCABULARY
supplied
3. SEARCH spEcIFICATIon
A. "UST NAME FIELDS
h, MAY LIMIT rinnr
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OP
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ZEGL/SE
i- RANGE SEARCHING
9-
4. TUTORIAL ErATUREr
a. 'HELP" COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RNEDOm
b. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SMUT:71AL
F. REPOPT Gr.NrrATIGN
1.ut,xuAcr TYPr
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
h. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. 'TDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. Orr-LINE PRINTING
h. U/SPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPPLIL/T/ES
e. SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
En
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
NoYes, for one
category
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
NO
Yes
No
No
NoYes
Yes, for numher
of hits
No
1. TERMINAL
::o
7. DATA RASE
Yes
3. RECORD
Yes, using
security at
print level
4. r:ELD
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WRAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. srARcr
SER
VIC
E:
AT MITT COST
b. DATA nArm:
C. TAKES cusTovcR
DATA RASES
4. DISTOPY Or SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. srnvicr INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
Z. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
.MULTIPLE USERS
PIRETS (Pittsburgh Information
RETrieval System)
Knowledge Availability Systems
Center
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213
Contacts: Mr. Edmond Howie,
Prof. Dale Isner (system
designer)
412-24-5211
A copy of the program and of
the documentation are aVailable
for reproduction costs.
earen services on approximately
10 data Lases are available.
or prices, contact Associate
11reeter of KASC.
Only implemented at Pittsburgh
Aug., 1572
U. of Pitt. campus
ever 155
outside clients
do.
PDPIO
TSM
ACRD -10
ASR-33 TTY Compatible
10-30 cps.
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. vARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE.
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRA!nTD DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OF.
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
F. QUERY
1. USER-sysTr2! INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-I./FM
PHRASING
C. sYs=-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT STARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. sTrr,r1/NI PERMITTED
d. SYNONYDS
e. DISPLAY Cr
RELATED =Ms
No
f. cRrcRxwo TERM IN CON-
TROLLrO VOCABULARY
DoYes
Yc5
Yes
Yes, bv cotversion
(card er :ext)
Inp,
Yes, source file.
Yes, source file
Yes, source file
Yes
Do
No (full text
inversion for
search on words
and phrases)
Yes, via system
controlled dialogue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes (truncation)
No
3. SEARCH fT:=C/r/CATto
A. ':UST DANE FIELDS
b.
'AY LIMIT FIELD!'
c. PROLNAN END
a. BooLrAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. ::EFTING OF BoOLtN
;:xp.RrssloNs
PHRASE
DI:CTANCT:
stARCPING
h. NATURAL .7:NcL:sr
i. RANGE SEARCHING
4, TUTORIAL rrATIJR::s
a. *rr.Lr" cor-A:lo
t. DOCUMENT/4;T7 0:_
nu-L
IDS
!:n
Yes
Yes
Ye:
Yen
Yes
(ihrases,
No
Ne
No
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. %ANDO!'
No
b.FrOUtNTIAL
Yes
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
No
I. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT ANONG
oPT/ONF
c. OWN COLE
2. NEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
h.DISPLAY oF GRAPIJE
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA EASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
No
No
No
NoYes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
I. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
QUERY UPDATE (version 1)
Control Data Corp.
5272 River Rd.
Washington, D.C. 20016
301-652-226R
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. ?OR PURCHASE
No
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
Yes
AT WHAT COST
$100 /mo. royalty
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
NA
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. RIS'lRY OF SOFTWARE
a. 1.IRST INSTALLATION
h. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
S. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
li MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
late 1972
No extensive use yet
NA
CDC cypER/70, 6000 series
SCOPE 3, INTERCOM 3
SYMPL
TTY 33. 35; CRT
10-30 cps, 100 cps, 2400 baud
No
C. FILE. DEFINITION
I. DEER DEFINABLE
:AP1AL7
D. riLE MA/NTENANCt
1.
ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
C. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECK:;
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER - SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. mULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM - FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMJSINC. PERMITTED
d. SYNOMPIS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERnS
f. CHECKING TERN IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
`Uses files
pre;lared
externally
S!?.
pArd
Tf
Yes
MO
(see
C.)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
None
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NArtE FIELDS
b. MAY LI "IT FIELDS
-c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
S. NESTING or HooLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLIEn
i. RANGE sr:ARCHING
4.TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'HELP" COMMAND
L. DOCUMENTATION
nN -LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
h. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
r. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a, OFF -LINE. PRINTING
h. DISPLAY OF. GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
ai SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. CouNTING
d. ARITIIMET/C
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2, DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No (Exclusive
OR instedd)
Yes
No
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ye;
Yes
No
No
None
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoNo
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COS-
b.
c.
DATA BASES
TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
RAHIS
MATHEMAT/CA, Inc.
Princeton Station Office Park
P.O. Box 2392
Princeton, N.J. 08540
609-799-2600
Yes
521,000-S36,000
Yes
5840- 51300/mo.
Yes
Approx. 33% over raw computer
time
None
Yes
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION 1967
h. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
Standard Oil of California,
Boll Telephone Labs, Nabisco,
Inc.
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
1967
b. PRESENT USAGE
75 major corporation users
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISS'ON RATES
6. RE- ENTRANT FOR
mULTIPLE USERS
IBM 360, 370
OS (TSO), CPCMS /VH 370
Assembler * FORTRAN
All kinds
All rates
No
C. FILE DEFINITION
I. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. =PEA= FIELDS
D. TILE !tAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
mACVINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER - SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LIRE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. PULL TEXT INVERSION
c.
d.
e.
f.
STErCIING PERMITTED
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
CHECKING TERM IN
CON-
Yes
'ies
Yes
YcYes
Yes
Yes
YOE;
Yes
NA
Yes (CPCMS
version)
Yes
Yes
Limited; RAmIS
isprimarily
data-oriented
No
Yes (by
arcangement)
Yes (by
character
striro?.s, use
masks)
Yes (group
names)
No
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
3. spApcp SPECIFICATION
MUST NAME FIELDS
"AY LIMIT FIELDS
BOOLEAN AND
BOOLEAN OR
BOOLEAN NOT
NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EY.PRESS/ONS
YeS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCTING
No
NATURAL ENGLISH
Yes
RANGE SEARCHING
YeS
a.b.
c.d. e.
f. 9-
h. i.
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP" COUHJiND
b. DOCU!ENTATION
nN-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
None, but user
build
tstn teatures
File structure,
rch strategy,
u%:e linked-list
a. 7ANDOM
nierarchica7:
b. osQuENTIAL
trees
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. nFPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGr Tyrr
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. ,roIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. ;)ISPLAY OF GRAPHS
C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
No
N0Yes (eMLeddee
In query
Yes
No
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
Yes
h. scourNc/Nc
Y,
C. COUNTING
Yes
d, ?ErTWIETIC
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes, very
plete
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NA EE
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. ,,A/N FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE. LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TY'ES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
HEconisTrls, JURIS, ENVIRON,
TOXICON (same system);
Lockheed's DIALOG is
technically the same.
NASA
Science
Information
Division
Washington, D.C.
301-755-3465
Available via ,OOSM.IC. EXtented
%.,erion available Ly late 1972
No, in -house services only at
government agencies; EIZI
service publicly available at
special centers.
ELM (TOXICON) han CBAC,
Toxicity Bibliography; NASA has
STAR, IAA; Justice (JUR/S) has
fuRrs data base;
Yes (with help from a
contractor)
1967 for f:ASA
NASA, NLM, Justice, AEC, EPA,
Federal 'Tediation and
Conciliation Service
NA IBM 360/50
OS/MVT and NFT
RECON (the interactive
subsystem) is all assembler;
STIES (the batch file
Maintenance subsystem) is PL/1
assembler.
ASCII compatible terminals, :Br
2260, Bunker Ram° 2200, and TTY
compatible
10 -30') cps
C. FILE DEEINITION
1. USER Ers/NAn1E
2. VARIABLE LI:NrTr TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
LI. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS n:; -LILAC
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
7. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION cnrcrs
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. miTOtATIC OR
ACHINE-_7\IDED
CONTENT INDEXING
F. OrtRY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. 'TULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. sYsTErf-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTEST _SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT IWSRE/ON
c. STErfniNG rErf!ITTro
d. syNoNyrs
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TER! IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
No
Yes.
:rove
Yes
Yen
Ne
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yen
Yes, via
EXPAND
Yes
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. "UST NAME FIELDS
L. "AY 1.V7IT FIELDS
` c. BOOLEAN AND
BOOLEAN OE
e. nonEEAN NOT
f. ::ESTINfl Or BooLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
(7. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING.
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
SEARCHING
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "TIEEr- c0 ,"4AND
NOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
S. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
b. SEOUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
r. PEPOPT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
V. SELECT APONG
OPTIONS
c. Otti CODE
2. -ED/A FLEXIBILITY
a.^EF-LINE PRINTING
U. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
A. PORTING
b..SEOUENC/NG
c. COUNTING
d. APITV"ETIC
,I. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TEPM/NAL
2. DATA EASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SeYes
yes, via
EXPLAIN
Yes
,:0
7:0
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Nr,
No
Yen
NoYes
Ne
YeS
Yes
No
No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
1. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
4E1 (Remote File Inquiry
System)
NASA
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Automatic Data Processing
Center
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
32899
305-867-4166
Available to government
agencies
No, in-house use only
NASA technical data on parts
reliability, financial
management, master personnel,
etc.
NA
1969
NASA Headquarters, NASA Space
Center
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION 1969
b. PRESENT USAGE
See 4.b.; supplied to Army
Safeguard Command and House of
Representatives, but usage
there unknown
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE- ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
Minimum 360/40
OS/MFT(QTAM), MVT at NASA
Headquarters
Assembler (level F)
TTY compatible
110 baud
Yes
C. r/LE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. "APIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D.
MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS. ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE'
c. DELETION
d. ED/TING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
"ALIDATION CHECKS
3. oRTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OP
,ACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
C. QUERY
1. USER - SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENGLISH -LIKE
PHRASING
C. SYSTEM-roll=
DIALOGUE
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yen
No
No
Yes
No
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Yes
h. FULL TEXT INVERSION
No
C. STEMMING PERMITTED
No
d. SYNONYMS
Yes, of
e. DISPLAY OF
keywords
RELATED TERMS
No
f. CEECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
No
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NAME FIELDS
Yes
I. 'AY LIMIT rxrLDS
BOOLEAN AND
.Yen
d. BOOLEAN OR
Yes
c. BOOLEAN NOT
Yen
f. NESTING Or BOOLEAN
FxPREssIONF
Yes
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
No
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
Yes
FANCE SEARcNiNc
Yen
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'HELP" COMMAND
b. o0CUMENTAT/oN
ON -r.INE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
h. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
C. OWN CODE
2. 'TDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF -LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY Or CRAPES
C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
C. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
O. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA RASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
None
A combination
of a, i, and c
Ho
Yes
No
Yes
NoNo
Yen
Yes
Yes
NO, but
automatic total
for arithmetic
fields
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAPE
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT .COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
S. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
R/OS
Vogelback Computing Center
Northwestern Univ.
Evanston, Ill. 50201
312-492-3741
By arrangement
To non-profit or educational
Organisations
Cost-reimbursable
Mostly bibliographies (Computer
science, physics, etc.),
journal abstracts for social
sciences, others
Yes
Sept. 1959
Sept., 1969 (demonstration of
prototype)
Heavy usage, over 50 data
bases in Chicago area.
CD
C 6
400
SCOPE 3.3 + in-house built
interactive front-end (on-line
subsystem)
FORTRAN + COMPASS
TTY-compatihle; IMLAC graphics
terminal (15k baud, local
connection)
10. IS, 30 cps
No
C. FILE orriuTTIoN
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENCTIT TEXT
1. REPEATED r/PLOS
D. FILE "AINTENANCE
4.ALLOWS ON -LINE
a. CREATION
b.UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. P
RE
PRO
GR
AM
ME
D D
AT
AIr
AL
IDA
TIO
NCHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING, or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE - AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. mULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
h. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED =Hrs.
f. CHECX/NG TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Yes
Yes
No on-line
capability
Yes (user
specified)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
NoYes, user may
request in-
verted index,
or else full
text search
occurs on all
items
No
No
No
No
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NA,Ir FIELDS
U.
LIMIT- FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN Ov
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF HOCiUMV:
EXPRESS/ONt
PHRASE AND DISTANCE.
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL MM./SP
i. PANCE SEARCHING
e!. TrToRTAL FEATunrs
a. "limp" CO! mAND
b. DOCU"ENTATInu
ON -LINE
S. SEARCH ST"ATECY
a. RANDOM
h. SEQUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIA'
F. REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OuTprT
h. SELECT A'.ONG
OPTIONS
c. OWN CODE
2. MEDIA mrxrHxL/TT
a. Orr-LINE PRINT/NC
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPAPILITIES
a. SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d.ARTTms"Tic
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA RASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
No Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NO
dis
tanc
esearch
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, fnr
specified
records or
subsets
Yes, for
full file
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yen
Yen
No
Yes, batch
mode only
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No Na
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WEAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
D. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSHISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
SHOEBOX
MITRE Corp.
Bedford, Mass. 01730
Contact: Henry A. Bayard
617-271-2582.
Yes
By arrangement; probably at
reproduction cost to government
users
Yes
By arrangement with MITRE Corp.
None
Yes
1970
None, other than MITRE
IBM 360 or 370 (SHOEBOX requires
186 K bytes of core)
OS/PCP, MET, MVT
TREET (LISP derivative)
IBM 2260 alphanumeric display
2500 cps (in local
configuration)
Yes (Ur to 8 concurrent users)
c. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENCTP TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. PILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOPS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4, AUTOMATIC OR
"ACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. OUERY
1. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGL/SE-LIKE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM- FORCED
DIALOGUE
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY No
b. FULL TEXT INVERFION
Yes
c. STEMMING PERM /TIED
Yes, left,
right, or
d. SYNON=
Yes (user
definable)
e. DISPLAY OF
No
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERR IN CON- No
TROLLED VOCABULARY
3. SEARCH EPECIFICATION
a. "UST NAME FIELDS
'lc.
b. "AY LIMIT rIELDS
Yes, limit tc
preestablished
text Segment:
gives
S f tex7
c. BOOLEAN AND
Yes
d. BOOLEAN op
Ye-
e. BOOLEAN NOT
Yes
f. NESTING or PO(MEAN
EXPRESSIONS
Yes
q. PERASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
Yes
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
No
i. RANGE SEARCHING
Yer
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. *HELP' COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON -LINE
S. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. !LANDO*.
No
b. SEQUENTIAL
Yes
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL NoNo
NO, but complex
commands entered
via explanatory
suectiOnnaire
F. ?SPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
Yes
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
No
c. OWN CODE
Yes
2. 'TDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. Orr-LINE PRINTING
h. DISMAY or GRAPHS
C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. APITH"ETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. MELD
Yes
NoYes (punched
cards)
Yes
No
Yes
No No
Yes
no No
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
SOLAR
Washington State University
Pullman, washingtOn, 99163
509-335-3564
Yes
Not established
NoNo
Yes
5500 annual subscription plus
costs per demand searches
subset of CABC plus local
literatures
No
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION Since 1971
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
None yet
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION Since 1971 for internal use
only
b. PRESENT USAGE
Very infrequent, about ten
times per month
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
IBM 360/67 operating as a 65
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
OS MVT
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
PL/1 plus assembly
4. TERMINAL TYPES
Any TTY compatible with IBM
1050,and 2741
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
10, 14.7 ard 15 cps
6. RE- ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
Yes
C. nix ocrrNITToN
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED FIELDS
D. FILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON -LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROCRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECXS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. ULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
ENGLISH-LIKE
PHRASING
SYSTEM - FORCED
DIALOGUE
b.
C.
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
h.
c.d.
e.
FULL TEXT INVERSION
STEMMING PERMITTED
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
No
Yes
No
No
No
No No
Yes
No
Yes, in batch-
mode only
Yes
Yes
No
Yes, special
vocabulary for
use in the CC AC
data base
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, separate
dictionary used
on-line in
browse mode
No
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NAME FIELDS
t. NAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. f.
BOOLEAN
rg7BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANCE SEARCHING
4
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP' COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
b. SEOUZNTIAL
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
r. nrroRT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
OWN CODE
2. MEDIA FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. 'TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
NO
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
NoNo
No
No
No
No
No
NoNo
No
T.. GENERAL DTSCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH. SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. "AIN rRAms
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
SPIRES II
Institute for Communication
Research
Stanford Univ.
Stanford, Ca. 94305
415-321-2300, X2755
Dy arrangement
Yes
Based on resources used +
$3.50 /Connect hour
Yes
NA
Fall. 1972
People are still learning how
to use it.
There have been
many outside incuirieS.
/DM 360/57
ORVYL under OS / "FT -II
PLW
Primarily In!. 2741.
Other
types can be supported.
10, IS cps
Yes
C. TILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
2. YARIADLE LENGTH TEXT
3. 7ErEATro rrxr.or
D.FILE MAINTENANCE
I. ALLOWS oN-LINE
a, CREATION
h.T'PDATE
c. DELETION
d, EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMmED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
Acilm-AIDEE
CONTENT INDEXING
N. °UTZ,/
1. USER - SYSTEM INTERACTION
a."PITIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h, ENGLISH -ZINC
PHRASING
c. SYSTE"-FORCED
DIALOGUE
Yes
Yes
YC5
Yer
overnight
Overnight
Yes
Yes
Yas
No
Yes
Yes
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Yes, when
user-defineJ
YeS, On
user-designated
tiles
Yes
Yes
b.
c.d.
e.
f.
FULL TEXT INVERSION
STEM_MING rErztryrrsa
SYNONYMS
DISPLAY or
RELATED TERMS
CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Yes
3.RE ARE" sprciricATIoN
a. "UST NAIVE FIELDS
b. "AY LImIT FIELDS
C. BOOLEAN AND
d. rooLEAN OR
e. BOOLLAN NOT
Yes
f. STSTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
Yos
q.RIIRAnn AND DISTANCE
snAncrINN
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
!al
RANCE SEARCHING
Yen
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Nu.
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
4. TVTOMIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP" COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON LINE
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RAND',"
h. SEQUENTIAL
e. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
1- LANGUAGE TYPE
a, STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
oPTIONS
c. <Y4'.1 CODE
2. .MEDIA FLEXIDIL/TY
a. OFF -LINO PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPES
c. srEcrAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
C. COUNTING
d. AR:TurETic
C. SECURITY PROTECT/ON
I. TERMINAL
2. DATA EASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
A. CENrRAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
oRIcINATOR
TELEPRoNE
STAIRS
.1171 Corporation
Data Processing Division
1133 Westchester Ave.
White Plains, N.Y. 10604
Local representative
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
No
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE .
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
A. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
C. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
Yes
5500.00 per month
NA
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION July,
b. qrNNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
1972
Not available
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
NA
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
R. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE- ENTRANT POR.
MULTIPLE USERS
IBM 360, 370 series
oSpo,T or "VT (with CICS)
Assembly, with some PL/1
Ism 2741, 2260, 2265
15, 120 or 240 cps
Yes
C. FILE DErzNITIoN
1. UsrP. DEFINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH
3. REPEATED FIELDS
U.r/Lr MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
Yes
TEXT
Yrs
No
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTt"IATIC OR
"ACE/NE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
F. QUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
h. ENGLISH -LIKE.
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. PULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERms
f. CHECKINC TER!! IN cm-
:ROLLED VOCABULARY
NoNoYrs (marked for
leletion during
hatch
No No
,Yes, merge
records
ile, tut not
..fields wi'.ir
rerd
NO
Yes
Yes
No
NoYes
Yes
Yes
NO
NA
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST NAME FIELDS
1'.
'SAY LI"IT rIrLDr
c. BOOL=1 AND
d. 11001.rAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCH/NC
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
I. RANGE SEARcRINc
4. TUTORIAL reA.TuRrs
a. 'HELP" Coo'At:.)
b. DoCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
No
Yes
Yes
Yrs
Yes
Yrs
Yes
Yrs (in
Yes
Yes (under
nd
SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDO
Y.
h. SEQUENTIAL
Yea
c. INDEXED scQuENT/AL
Yen
SPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
C. OWN CODE
2. -rD/A FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF -LINE PRINTING
h. MISPLAY or GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
srOrrNCING
c. COUNTING
d. AR/TIC'ETIC
M. SECURITY PROTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. "ECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NoNo
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE.
AT WHAT COST
SYSTEM 2000 (TM req.)
.7r1 Systems Corp.
P.O, Box 9968
Austin,'Tx. 78766
512-258-5171
Yes
525,000 (minimum package).
Yea
5740 or 5960 /mo. with option to
buy (minimum package)
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
Yes
AT WHAT COST
Arrang
with data center
b. DATA BASES
None
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA. BASES
Yes, with help from '4R/ and
data centers
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION July, 1970
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
Control Data data center, St.
Paul Insurance Co. (IBM
version), INFONET
5. HISTORY or SERVICE
a. SEPVICE INITIATION July, 1970
b. PRESENT USAGE
Approx. 200 users.
B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
0 versions exist;
corresponding data on separate
lines)
1. MAIN FRAME
IBM 360,370
UN/VAC 1100 series
CDC 6000 and CYDER 70 series
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION PATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
OS/MVT, MET, TSO, vs/1
EXEC 8, CSTS
SCOPE, KRONOS
rOPTRAN
Assembler
TTY 33, 35, IBM 2741, 2260
10, 15, 120, 240 cps
Only /BM version
c. rILE DEFINITION
1. USER DErINABLE
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
3. REPEATED r/ELos
D. riLE NAINTENANCC
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
b. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. rsEPRoGRAN,IED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE -AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
F. QUERY
1. USER- SYSTEM INTrnACT/ON
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -LINE
PHRASING
C. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. ruLL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERnr,
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
No No
Yes
No
None
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. "UST NA:2: FIELDS
Yen
b. MAY LIMIT FIELDS
--
c. BOOLEAN AND
Yes
d. BOOLEAN OR
Yes
e. BOOLEAN NOT
Yes
f. NESTING or sooLEAN
ExrsEssiors
Yes
g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
NO
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
Yen
i. RANGE- SEARCHING
Yen
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
a. "HELP' COMMAND
No
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON- LINE:
No
5. SEARCH STPATrGY
a. %ANDO.'
h. SEOUENTIAL
c. INDEXED SEOCE%TIAL
F. REPORT GENERATION
NoYs (Inverted files)
No
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
Yes
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
Yes
C. OWN CODE
Ye, (FOPTRAN, COBOL)
2. "EDIA FLEXIBILITY
PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPEC/AL OUTPUT:
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
7.RITE"ETIC
G. sEcuR/Ty RnOTECTION
1. TERMINAL
2. DATA EASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
-
Yes
Yes
Yen
Ye
Yon
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes (ID" only)
Yoa
A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1. SYSTEM NAME
ORIGINATOR
TF.LEPHONE
TICON (Timeshared Information
Control System)
Advanced Computer Systems, Inc.
3131 S. Dixie Dr.
.
Dayton, Ohio 45439
513..294-0586
SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
Yes
AT WHAT COST
Basic system is $50 X.
b. FOR LEASE
Yes
AT WHAT COST
By arrangement
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST
b. DATA BASES
c. TAXES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
NA
4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE
a: FIRST INSTALLATION Available andoperational, but
none installed yet.
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
5. HISTORY OF SERVICE
NA
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE.
E. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERMINAL TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION RATES
6. RE-ENTRANT FOR
MULTIPLE USERS
rip! 360. 370
OS
Assembler
CRT. TTY, any BTAM or GRAPHIC
supported terminal,
80 Cps, 10 cps
Yes
C. PILE DEFINITION
urER DEFINABLE
Yes
2. VAR/ABLE IX:NMI, TEXT
Yes
3. REPEATED FIELDS
Yes
. PILE MAINTENANCE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
A. CREATION
b, unoATE
C. DELETIOO
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA
VALIDATION CHECXS
3. oPTIONAL ORDERING or
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
E. QUERY
1. urEP-sysTE INTERACT/ON
a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISL-LINE
PHRASING
c. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. rum. TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
noYes
arithresi,.
Ccrd LT.IY)
Ho
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
NO
`Io
Yes
Yes
NO
No
Yes
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. MUST mvn: =Los
h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NEST/NG OF BoOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
Yes
o. MANE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING.
Yen
h. NATURAL ENGL/SA
Yes
1.PANGE SEARCHING
Yes
4. '''UTORIAL FEATURES
a. 'HELP- COMAND
h. oocu.TNTATroN
oN-LINE
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
srApcp STRATEGY
a. RANDO"
h. SECV7NT/AL
c. INDEXED SEOUF':TIAL
REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD oCTAVT
h. SELECT ArouG
OPTIONS
r. ONN CODE
2. "IOTA mExibILITy
a. °Fr -LINE PAINTING
h. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUE'S
3. SPECIAL cAnAr/L/T/Fs
a. SORTING
h. SEQUENCING
c. COUNTING
d. APITIHT:Tic
C. SECURITY PROTECTION
I. TERMINAL
2. DATA DANE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
No
No
Inverted file
for each word,
arc,21,ng
via inalces
Yes
Ho
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yen
NG No
Yon
Yes
Yes
Yen
Yes
Yes
Yes
A. GENERAL 'DESCRIPTION
1. .SYSTEM HARE
oftrcTEAToR
TELEPHONE
2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
a. FOR PURCHASE
AT WHAT COST
b. FOR LEASE
AT WHAT COST
3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
a. SEARCH SERVICE
AT WHAT COST .
b. DATA BASES
c. TAKES CUSTOMER
DATA BASES
UNIDATA
United Computing Systems
1130 Broadway
Kansas City, Mo. 64106
816-753-4500
Yes
By arrangement
Yes
By arrangement
Yes
Variable, ave. $25-S35/connect
hour
None
Yes
4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE
a. FIRST INSTALLATION Fall 1969
b. SIGNIFICANT
INSTALLATIONS
Only UCS
HISTORY OF SERVICE
a. SERVICE INITIATION
b. PRESENT USAGE
B. conTuTER.Euv/RoNmENT
1. MAIN FRAME
2. OPERATING SYSTEM
3. SOURCE LANGUAGE
4. TERM/NM...TYPES
5. TRANSMISSION FATEF
6. PT. -ENTRANT Ton
MULTIPLE USERS
rail 1969
Data not available
CDC 4000 series
!AX (in- house) -or KRONOS (CDC)
roRTRAN, COMPASS
All low-speed terminals; remote
batch CDC 210 USER terminal
compatible.
Also CRT devices.
1n-30 cps, 2400-96GO baud
Yes
C. FILE DEFINITION
1. USER DEFINABLE
Yes
2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT
Yes
3. REPEATED FIELDS
Yes
D. FILE nAINTENANcE
1. ALLOWS ON-LINE
a. CREATION
h. UPDATE
c. DELETION
d. EDITING
2. PREPROGRANNED DATA
VALIDATION CHECKS
3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF
ENTERED DATA
4. AUTOMATIC OR
MACHINE-AIDED
CONTENT INDEXING
C. OUERY
1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION
a. "XITIPLE OPTIONS
AT ANY POINT
b. ENGLISH -unr
PHRASING
C. SYSTEM-FORCED
DIALOGUE
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Limited
2. CONTENT SEARCHING
None
a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
b. FULL TEXT INVERSION
c. STEMMING PERMITTED
d. SYNONYMS
e. DISPLAY OF
RELATED TERMS
f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-
TROLLED VOCABULARY
3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION
a. "UST NAME FIELDS
b. NAY LIMIT FIELDS
c. BOOLEAN AND
d. BOOLEAN OR
e. BOOLEAN NOT
f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN
EXPRESSIONS
PHRASE AND DISTANCE
SEARCHING
h. NATURAL ENGLISH
i. RANGE SEARCHING
g.
4. TUTORIAL FEATURES
A. 'HELP' COMMAND
b. DOCUMENTATION
ON-LINE
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
None
5. SEARCH STRATEGY
a. RANDOM
Yes
b. SEQUENTIAL
No
c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL
No
REPORT GENERATION
1. LANGUAGE TYPE
a. STANDARD OUTPUT
Yes
b. SELECT AMONG
OPTIONS
Yes
C. OWN CODE
Yes
2.
ED/A FLEXIBILITY
a. OFF-LINE PRINTING
b. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS
c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS
3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES
a. SORTING
b. SEQUENCING
C. COUNTING
d. ARITHMETIC
G. SECURITY PROTECTION
2. TERMINAL
2. DATA BASE
3. RECORD
4. FIELD
Yes
Yes
Yes, rag tape.
Yes
NoYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
5. GLOSSARY OF COMMON DATA BASIS
APA - American Psychological Association has created a data base con-taining the past four years' Psychological Abstracts.
COMPENDEX - Computerized Engineering Index, issued monthly by EngineeringIndex, Inc., is the .2omputer-readable version of the printedpublication, Enginee-ing Index Monthly, which contains referencesspanning all engineering disciplines. These references are takenfrom professional and trade journals, publications of engineeringorganizations, papers from conferences and symposiums, books, andother documents.
CA-C - Chemical Abstracts Condensate issued by Chemical Abstracts Ser-vice is the computer searchable complement to the printedpublication, Chemical Abstracts (CA), which covers the full rangeof chemistry, referencing 250,000 articles per year.
CA-Condensates is issued weekly; the content corresponds to anissue of CA. The tape version, CA-Condensates, precedes thecorresponding printed issue of CA by several weeks due to thetime required to print, bind, and distribute CA printed issues.
The abstracts in CA and CA-Condensates are grouped into five.categories: Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, MacromolecularChemistry, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, andPhysical and Analytical Chemistry. The first two groupingsare published as an odd numbered issue one week, and the lastthree groupings are published as an even numbered issue the fol-lowing week. Searches may be limited to odd or even numberedissues if desired.
CAIN - A data base distributed by the National Agricultural Library, itcovers literature from all over the world concerned with agricul-ture in a broad sense. Ten per cent of the coverage consistsof monographs; the remaining 90% consists of journal articles.The 90% comes from a review of 1,200 journals.
CT - Chemical Titles, also issued by Chemical Abstracts Service ,
contains journal references to approximately 4,500 articles perissue appearing in 650 important U. S. and n)n-U. S. chemicaland engineering journals. Titles that appear in CT represent over65% of the total abstracts that later appear in Chemical Abstracts.Chemical Titles offers journal references to articles approximately70 days before their abstracts are published in Chemical Abstracts.In many cases titles appear in Chemical Titles before the journalcontaining the article is published. Thus Chemical Titles isvaluable as an alerting service.
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CEA': - Onomical-Biological Activities, also issued by Chemical AbstractsServices, provides up-to-date coverage of published work concern-ed with the interaction of organic compounds (drugs, pesticides,etc.) mith biological systems.Also covered are metabolism studieS and studies of in-vitrochemical reactions of biochemical interest. Nearly 700 journalsare monitored. CBAC is a consolidated source of informationin the chemical-biological field, and especially appeals toscientists involved in biochemical and physiological research.
The tape version of CBAC corresponds to the Chemical-BiologicalActivities hard-copy version; however, tape issues are usuallyavailable two-four weeks ahead of the printed copy. Each issuecontains 500-600 digests.
ENVIRON - Environmental Information Retrieval On-line is a modified ,
version of RECON operating at Environmental Protection Agency(EPA). It services the EPA and maintains a data base of 8separate files as follows:(1) Selected literature reference on noise abatement and control.(2) Selected literature on industrial waste.(3) Data and abstracts on on-going EPA contracts and grants
research effort.(4) Data and abstracts on final reports of EPA contracts and
grants research effort.(5) Information on oil spills.(6) Information on lists of potentially toxic chem:::als.(7) Information on water quality monitoring stations and
parameters.(8) Information on administrative records.
E'(IC - Educational Resources Information Center is a nation-wide infor-mation network for acquiring, selecting, abstracting, indexing,storing, retrieving, and disseminating the most significantand timely educational research reports and projects. It is aproject of the U. S. Office of Education, and produces twodata bases, RIE (Research in Education) and CIJE (Current Indexto Journals in Education).
IAA - See STAR
INSPEC - A data base distributed by England's Institution of ElectricalEngineers, it covers the fields of physics, electrical andelectronic engineering, computers, and control engineering.Seventy-five percent of the coverage comes from a review of about2,000 journals. The other 25% are reports, monographs, patents,etc.
MARL II is a data base containing bibliognaphic citations prepared bythe Library of Co n3ress.
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NTIS - is a data base issued by National Technical Information Serviceof the U. S. Department of Commerce. It consists of unclassifiedgovernment reports resulting from government-sponsored research.The reports are compiled in a publication now called GovernmentReports Announcements (GRA). GRA is available in machine read-able form from the Department of Commerce.
The tapes contain standard bibliographic information such asauthor and title, as well as abstracts, descriptor terms, andinformation on how to order copies. The information consistsmainly of science, engineering and mathematics, but also includesreports on behavioral and social sciences.
JUSL - Justice Retr:eval and Inquiry System is a data base developedby the U. S. Department of Justice. It is designed to servelawyers for the Federal government in their research process.Thu data base contains selected legal periodicals and reportedcases, advisory opinions, supreme court briefs, solicitor general'smemoranda, selected appellate briefs, selected legal memoranda,legal correspondence, legal memoranda on points of authority,agency general counsel specialized briefs and memoranda, etc.
MEDLINE - MEDLARS On-line data base is a special subset of the MEDLARSfile, developed by the National Library of Medicine through theirscreening and analysis of the world's biomedical literature.MEDLINE covers over 1,100 biomedical journals from 1970 to pre-sent, whereas MEDLARS covers 2,400 biomedical journals from 1961to present. The current file contains 400,000 records, andapproximately 12,000 new records are added monthly.
PANDEX - The PANDEX tape contains current index to scientific and tech-nical literatures appearing in more than 2400 journals. Thebibliographic information includes the title of the articles,name(s) of the author(s), name of the journal, Coden abbreviation,issue number, page number, and subject heading taken from aPANDEX thesaurus. PANDEX is produced by CCM Information Corpor-ation, New York.
SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) - a data base distributedmonthly by the American Institute of Physics, it covers over one-half of the world's physics and astronomy literature. Over30,000 items are included every year from a journal coverage of70 journals.
STAR - Scientific And Technical Aerospace Reports and InternationalAerospace Abstracts - are two data bases issued by NASA. Theycontain reports and journal articles that the NASA scientificand technical information program has collected. These databases represent significant findings of Government, industrial,and academic researchers throughout the world on matters ofinterest to the aerospace oommunity.
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TOXICON - A data base collected by the Toxicology Information Program,National Library of Medicine of the Department of Health, Edu-cation and Welfare. It contains bibliographic citations ofliterature primarily in the area of toxicology, pharmacologyand environmental health. The citations include all the princi-pal components of a literature reference; namely, author, title,journal, journal coden, volume, issue, pagination and year.Most references are annotated with index terms, an abstract orboth. Where possible and appropriate, Chemical Abstracts Ser-vice Registry Numbers are made part of the annotation.
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6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
There have been a number of survey.. and other works done in recentyears which are similar in intent to ours but not identical in scope orform. A selective bibliography is now presented.
[1] Anderson, R. K., "Index of Data Management Software Packages,"National Bureau of Standards, Report 10 932, Oct. 1972.
[2] Auerbach Corporation, "Methodology for Evaluating Data ManagementSystems," Auerbach Report 5081-TR-1, undated.
[3] CODASYL Systems Committee, "A Survey of Generalized Data BaseManagement Systems," CODASYL Technical Report, May 1969.
[4] CODASYL Systems Committee, "Feature Analysis of Generalized DataBase Management Systems," CODASYL Technical Report, May 1971.
[5] Fong, E., "A Survey of Selected Document Processing Systems,"National Bureau of Standards Technical Note 599, Oct. 1971.
[6] Fry, J. P.,Corporation
[7] Koehr, G. JCorporation
et. al.,"Data Management Systems Survey," MITREReport MTP-329, Jan. 1969.
., et. al., "Data Management Systems Catalog," MITREReport MTP-139, Jan. 1973.
[8] Marron, B., et. al., "A Study of Six University-Based InformationSystems," Technical Note 781, National Bureau of Standards, June1973.
[9] Seidenf H. R., "A Comparative Analysis of Interactive Storage andRetrieval Systems with Implications for BCN Design," SystemDevelopment Corporation Technical Memorandum 4421, Jan. 1970.
[10] Walker, D. E. (editor), Interactive Bibliographic Search: TheUser/Computer Interface, AFIPS Press, 1971.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATASHEET
1. 1,1111.R.A HON OR RE PoRT No.
NiBS IN-819
2. Oov't AccessionNo,
3. Recipient's Accession N.
4. 111.1.1' AND stitIll I I
A iT(:tlli1CAL 1NLEX ',:',F 11.aMCriVE 1NFCF.I.XION SYSTEMS
5. Publication Date
March 1)7
6, Per forming Organization Code
7. NuritoR1 Lcnnis W. Fite, Kir k Fankin, Elizabeth Yong,Justin C. 1Rer, Beatrice A. Marron
8 Performing Organization
9. PERT ORMIN ( i OFttcAN I li) V ION NAME AND ADDRESS
NA V IONA I. BUREAU OF !-; l'AND ARDSMP ARTMEN.V Of t-t)A1Ai1ltt.EIt ASIIINGION, D.(;. 2O2) I
10, ProiectirTask Work Unit No.
64C11. C.:.ntractA;tant No.
12. zi-,,q.l.oririlz, (f,t4,1r117.51 ton Name and AdiIr..ss
,National Science Foundation1800 G Street, N....
".>asilin,,:,ton, D. C. 20550
13. Type of Report & PeriodCovered
Final
14. Sponsoring Agency Code
-1S. SLY-414:11LN I'ARY NOVI S
16. AI;SURACT t A 200word or less factual summary of most significant information. If document neludes a significantbibliopaphv or literature survey, mention it here.)
This report constitutes a reference to technical features and operationalstatus of interactive information systems, i.e. those providing a 'conversational'usage node to a 'non-programer' through a data terminal device. It is aimed atthe ADP service manager, for his use in the state -of- the -art assessments preparatoryto a detailed system selection'process. It contains an index that describes 46systems in terms of a list of over 50 technical features plus descriptive, identi-fication, and background information. In addition, there are aids and exampleScontributing to the intended use of the index.
17. KEN' ORBS tAlphabetical order, scp.irmcd by semicolons) BiblIographic systems; computer pi-ograms; ,.
computer systems; data base; data management; information retrieval; information ser-vices;- interactive system; query language; software selection; text processing.
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