The ASLIB CRANFIELD RESEARCH PROJECT ON The COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCY OF INDEXING SYSTEMS

Abstract

The Aslib Cranfield Project had its beginning some years back, when several members of the Aslib Aeronautical Group took an active part in the development of a new form of index that had been proposed by the National Aeronautical Institute of Holland. Later we did some tests on the Uniterm system of co‐ordinate indexing and, following a joint conference with the Classification Research Group, the idea developed of making a complete test of various indexing systems. A draft programme was prepared and was considered by many people in this country and the United States. An application was made to the National Science Foundation for a grant to cover the first stage of the investigation, and in July 1957 the Foundation advised Aslib that the grant had been approved.

Citation

CLEVERDON, C.W. (1960), "The ASLIB CRANFIELD RESEARCH PROJECT ON The COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCY OF INDEXING SYSTEMS", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 12 No. 12, pp. 421-431. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049778