Commercial users of MARC: Autocomp, Inc.

Cole, Fred C., Jr.

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Title

Commercial users of MARC: Autocomp, Inc.

Author(s)

Cole, Fred C., Jr.

Issue Date

1970

Keyword(s)

• Machine readable bibliographic data
• MARC formats
• Libraries --Automation

Abstract

In 1966 Autocomp was founded as an information systems and computer software company to work principally in the text data input, manipulation, full-text retrieval, and photocomposition areas. Autocomp developed an operational system called RECOMP (Retrieval and Composition) which at the time of this writing had processed over 325 million characters of data. Prime emphasis has been the computerization and retrieval of legal information and the manipulation of data for the codification of laws. However, in the latter part of 1968 it was recognized that RECOMP could operate equally well for the input, manipulation, and output of bibliographic data; work with the MARC tapes of the Library of Congress was begun. Since RECOMP is a broad, universal system, easily adapted to all forms of text processing and because it is fully operational, we were able to process the MARC data and to make it easily accessible. A general description of RECOMP and its utility for the processing of bibliographic data follow. The RECOMP system is divided, conceptually, into five major areas: 1) input, 2) maintenance, 3) manipulation, 4) composition, and 5) retrieval (see Figure 1). Each major area comprises several program modules. The following remarks are devoted to a description of these programs by area, with particular attention given to concept as opposed to technical detail.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (8th : 1970)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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