CONSTRUCTION AND USAGE OF CLASSIFIED SCHEDULES AND GENERIC FEATURES IN CO‐ORDINATE INDEXING

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the hypothesis that ‘classified schedules of features, with specific/generic relationships, are of value in feature‐card indexing.’ The data in support of the hypothesis has been drawn from experience gained in the construction and use of a feature‐card index designed for anaesthetics literature. This index has already been described in detail elsewhere; but to make this article comprehensible it is necessary after outlining the problem of the information explosion in medicine, and in anaesthesia in particular, to give a brief account of the development and structure of this feature‐card index.

Citation

MCcLELLAND, R.M.A. and MAPLESON, W.W. (1966), "CONSTRUCTION AND USAGE OF CLASSIFIED SCHEDULES AND GENERIC FEATURES IN CO‐ORDINATE INDEXING", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 18 No. 10, pp. 290-299. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050067