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The feasibility of wide-area textual analysis systems in libraries: A practical analysis

Price-Wilkin, John

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Title
The feasibility of wide-area textual analysis systems in libraries: A practical analysis
Author(s)
Price-Wilkin, John
Issue Date
1994
Keyword(s)
  • Textual analysis
  • Academic libraries
Abstract
This paper discusses the textual and software resources necessary for the establishment of a generalized wide-area textual analysis system. A distinction is made between textual analytical systems and text retrieval systems. The necessity of using standards and open systems in implementing such systems is emphasized. The paper includes a review of critical characteristics of generalized analytical software. It is argued that the resources necessary for the establishment of a service are currently available. The paper concludes with a discussion of deficiencies in current resources and standards. The author also includes an appendix discussing the need to incorporate a recognition of structure in textual retrieval systems.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Literary texts in an electronic age: Scholarly implications and library services [papers presented at the 1994 Clinic on Library applications of Data Processing, April 10-12, 1994]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1994: Literary texts in an electronic age: scholarly implications and library services PRIMARY
31st Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1994). Edited by Brett Sutton.