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Managing text: BYTE articles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Davidson)
Tue May 26 12:28:54 1992
Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 11:21:54 CDT
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From: Lloyd Davidson <ldavids@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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From: Lloyd Davidson, Northwestern Univ.
The June issue of BYTE has several articles of interest to this group in
the State of the Art section and in the Solutions Focus section:
State of the Art Section - Managing Infoglut:
Making Knowledge Pay by Christopher Locke, pp. 244-246, 248, 250, 252.
A good overview of the way the new information managing technologies
can be put to efficient use in organizations, particularly in
support of collaborative projects. The potential for expert systems
is down played, while the expanding potential of hyptertext and
structured forms of information is emphasized. There is mention of
the article "The Dark Side of DIP" (BYTE, April 1991, p. 193) on the
increasing need for indexing to help manage document images, which is
an article that every information professional should read.
The New Age of Documents by John E. Warnock (CEO of Adobe Systems),
pp. 257-260.
Discusses the critical role of universal document interchange,
including the tranfer of images and standard fonts, in efficient
communication. The author describes the technologies of Matching
Fonts, a techniques for transferring fonts between
computers with a minimum of information overhead, and Carousel,
the Adobe designed format to enable universal document exchange and
sharing.
Electronic Books by Louis R. Reynolds and Steven J. DeRose, pp. 263-268.
The practical prospects for the introduction of electronic books
are described, as are some of the likely immediate applications of
such a medium. A number of large scale electronic book projects
are discussed, along with the Motif, Intermedia and DynaText
technologies which are presented as examples of what is now
available. They also talk about the importance of SGML and
other publishing standards - as well as those standards still
under development such as the ISO HyTime and the DSSSL (Document
Style, Semantics and Specification Language) standards - in
implementing this technology.
Search and Retrieval by Earlene Busch, pp. 271-274, 276.
A nice short review of some of the new text retrieval methodologies
such as document clustering, probabilistic pattern matching, term
weighting and other techniques which replace or enhance Boolean
searches in large textual databases.
SGML Frees Information by Haviland Wright, pp. 279-282, 284, 286.
For those of you that have not yet seen an SGML encoded document, this
article is a must. It describes the impact SGML will have on efficient
text management and describes how they are authored and tagged.
Resource Guide: Search and Retrieval Systems, pp. 287.
Prices and sources for 32 products that allow you to create
and search text databases.
Solutions Focus section:
Searching for Common Threads by Raymond Ga Cote and Stanford Diehl,
pp. 290-294, 296, 298, 300, 302-305.
A review of a number of text management software packages including
ISYS, Magellan, On Location, Sonar Professional, ZyIndex, Folio Views,
re:Search, AskSam, Concordance and IdeaList.
Lloyd Davidson
Nothwestern University
LDavids@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
