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Information retrieval systems: characteristics, testing and evaluation
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ISBN: 0471512400 9780471512400 Year: 1968 Publisher: New York Wiley

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Information retrieval experiment
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ISBN: 0408106484 Year: 1981 Publisher: London : Butterworths,

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Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften : Konzepte und Berichte
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ISBN: 3593338815 Year: 1989 Publisher: Frankfurt Campus

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Introduction to controlled vocabularies : terminology for art, architecture, and other cultural works
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ISBN: 9781606060186 160606018X Year: 2010 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute,


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Information analysis and retrieval
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ISBN: 0471469955 Year: 1971 Publisher: New York : Becker and Hayes,

Linguistics and information science
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ISBN: 0126562504 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York, NY ; London : Academic Press,

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Information retrieval and library automation
ISSN: 00200220 Year: 1973 Publisher: Mount Airy, Md Lomond Systems

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Paper machines
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ISBN: 1283343657 9786613343659 026229821X 0262297272 9780262298216 9781283343657 9780262015899 0262015897 9780262297271 661334365X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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"Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a "universal paper machine" that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business."--Publisher's website.

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