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Determining Requirements for Atomic Energy Information from Reference Questions
Determining Requirements for Atomic Energy Information from Reference Questions
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As a basis for developing logical categories by which the literature of atomic energy and related subjects might be broken down, a representative number of typical instances In which actual users of this literature asked questions of it were collected. These typical instances took the form of approximately 5000 reasonably current reference questions received by 14 atomic energy research and reference organizations in the United States.
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Through the medium of a meeting conducted by the Technical Information Service of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the Commission's national laboratories and other prime contractors were asked to collect their current reference questions and to forward them to the authors' firm. In ogler to facilitate the transcription and forwarding of questions, each ofthe participating organizations was given a supply of specially designed forms on which they were to fill in, for each question, the name ofthe organization receiving the question and the question itself, exactly as it was received.
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S Department of Commerce Office of Technical Services, which is a primary disseminator of atomic energy information to inclividualLs and organizations outside the sphere of Atomic Energy Commission contractors.
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As a rule, it is more difficult for a retrieval system, whether manual or mechanical, to perform a search on a subject involving a number of concepts than it is to perform one involving only one concept; and, as the numbers of concepts in questions increase, the searching difficulty increases. The question of the numbers of concepts contained in reference questions, as well as the relationship of these concepts to one another, has been a subject of broad discussion recently, particularly as interest in mechanical storage and retrieval devices has heightened.
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While much is made in the literature of the need for retrieval systems and devices that can handle logical sums, products, and differences, it develops, in the present case at least, that the vast majority of questions involve logical products and that questions involving logical sums or differences are relatively rare. Thus, a system that could only handle logical products would be entirely adequate in the present case.
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APPENDIX I Organizations and institutions cooperating in the collection of reference questions Oak Ridge National Laboratory Library, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico National Reactor Testing Station, Phillips Petroleum Company, Idaho Falls, Idaho Atomics International, Canoga Park, California National Lead Company of Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio Technical Library, Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D
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Categories oftechnical questions collected Description of a process or method of procedure Physical, chemical, and engineering properties of substances Description of apparatus or equipment Physical and chemical constants Biological effects of substances: Hazards: Toxicology Radiation effects Materials for specific applications Composition of materials Standards and specifications Technical definitions Description of meteorological or geological phenomena Mathematical constants and methods Totals 187 No. of Per quection.c cent.
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