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Fife, Dennis U.; And OthersA Technical Index of Interactive Information Systems.Final Report.National Bureau of Standards (DOC), Washington,D.C.National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.NBS-TN-819Mar 7479p.Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government PrintingOffice, Washington, D.C. 20402 (SD Cat. No.C13.46:819, $1.20)

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ABSTRACTThe technical features and operational status of

inter,ctive information systems, i.e. those providing aconversational usage mode to a non-programer-through a data terminaldevice, are reviewed. The review is designed to aid informationspecialists in the state-of-the-art assessments preparatory to adetailed system selection procedure. It contains an index: 46 systemsare listed by trade name. The index provides information about over50 technical features. Information is based primarily ondocumentation received during 1972 and 1973. In addition, there areaids and examples contributing to the intended use of the index.(Author)

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,-4(NJ Interactive Information Systems

wDennis W. Fife, Kirk Rankin., Elizabeth Fong,Justin C. Walker, and Beatrice A. Marron

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FOREWORD

,Despite a history marked by some significant failures and numerouspartial successes, the field of computer software for informationservices now offers a wide and growing range of choices. Indeed, thevariety and complexity of available software seems to overwhelm routinedocumentation and distribution as an effective means of dissemination.This report offers relief as a concise reference to technical featuresand operational status in the domain of interactive systems, i.e.,those providing a "conversational" usage mode to a "non-programmer"through a data terminal device. The report was prepared under NationalScience Foundation support for NBS to assess the status of automatedinformation services for scientific and technical information. (GrantNSF-CA68). The principal motivation for this report was a request forassistance from the COSATI Task Group on Interactive Systems, chairedby Mr. Alexander Hoshovsky, U. S. Department of Transportation.

We gratefully acknowledge the excellent cooperation of the systemproducers, the review assistance of the COSATI Task Group, and especiallythe support and thoughtful advice of Dr. Edward Weiss and Mr. RichardLee of the Office of Science Information Service, NSF.

This report identifies computer systems by trade names as necessaryto provide a descriptive characterization of their features. This in nocase implies a recommendation or-endorsement by the National Bureau ofStandards, nor should the presentation be construed as a certification

-that any system provides the indicated capabilities. The informationpresented was primarily obtained from producer's documents and has beenreviewed by each producer for accuracy and clarity, with the authorsretaining final technical judgement on the information included. Thereport is only intended to be informative and instructive in state-of-the-art assessments, and not to be a competitive evaluation of systemsfor any specific application.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction 1

2. Basic Characteristics of Systems Under Study 2

3. System Features and Evaluation Requirements 5

3.1 Questionnaire with Explanatory Notes 5

3.2 Suggested Procedure for Use 5

4. Survey Results 144.1 Indexes -to SyStems 144.2 The Inventory of Systems 17

Name Page Name PazeEs 18 MARSVT 41CMS 19 MASTER CONTROL 42CIRCOL 20 MICROTLXT 43(Data/Central) 21 MINIDATA 44DIALOG 22 MIRADS 45DMARS 23 MUSE 46Dom, 24 NASIS 47DRS 25 N.Y.TIMES 48DS/3 26 OLIVER 49flIISARI 27 ORBIT III 50ENFORM 28 PIRETS 51FLEXIMIS 29 QUERY UPDATE 52GIM 30 RAMIS 53GIPSY 31 RECON 54IMARS 32 RFI 55IMS(OEP) 33 RIOS 56

IMS/360 34 SHOEBOX 57

IMS/8 35 SOLAR 58INQUIRE 36 SPIRES II 59

INSYTE 37 STAIRS 60

LEADERMART 38 SYSTEM 2000 61MARK IV 39 TICON 62

MARS III 40 UNIDATA 63

5. Glossary of Common Data Bases 64

6. Bibliography 68

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A TECHNICAL INDEX OF INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Dennis W. Fife, Kirk Rankin, Elizabeth FongJustin C. Walker, Beatrice A. Marron

This report constitutes a reference to technical featuresand operational status of interactive information systems, i.e.those providing a 'conversational' usage mode to a 'non-program&mer' through a data terminal device. It is aimed at the ADPservice manager, for his use in the state-of-the-art assessments,preparatory to a detailed system selection process. It containqan index that describes 46 systems in terms of a list of over '

50 technical features plus descriptive, identification, andbackground information. In addition, there are aids and ex-amples contributing to the intended use of the index.

Key words: Bibliographic systems; computer programs; computersystems; data base; data management; information retrieval;information services; interactive system; query language;software selection; text processing.

1. INTRODUCTION

This report is written for the purpose of providing Federal ADPcustomers with information on a certain class of computer systems whichare capable of handling scientific and technical information. The reportattempts to show what is available and to characterize these systems insuch a way as to answer questions which naturally arise prior to select-ing such a system for a particular installation. The-report is writtenat a level of technical detail which is aimed at information specialistsrather than programming experts. It is intended to be informative andinstructive, and not critical or evaluative.

We have reviewed for inclusion in this index over 200 systems whichcame to our attention from various published and unpublished sources aswell as from word-of-mouth. The systems which were selected conform tothe following definition: "Information Retrieval" or "Data Management"packages or services which are available to any Federal ADP installa-tion, and which offer an interactive query and search capability thatis geared for use by non-programmers. Various reasons for rejectingthe systems which did not qualify for inclusion are listed at the endof Section 2 of this report.

one information contained here on each of the systems was obtainedprimarily from documentation received during 1972 and 1973. In caseswhere the available documentation did not provide sufficient data,further information was obtained by telephone. We believe that thereporting on these systegs is accurate, for it has been reviewed andamended where necessary by the system producers. We regret if thisreport inadvertently omits any system which may meet the definition.Omissions and out-of-date information are inevitable in a survey ofsuch an extremely active and evolutionary field as this.

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A caveat on'the use of this index must be mentioned. We haveattempted to convey in a limited space information obtained fromsecondary sources. There are obvious limitations in such a treatment.The best way to gain in-depth familiarity with a system is, of course,to have hands-on experience with it. That has not been possible formost Of our treatments, but that course is recommended to readers andusers of this inventory.

This report is structured as follows: Section 2 elaborates on thedefinition of the scope of the survey and clarifies some of the importantconcepts and sometimes confusing terminology. Section 3 discusses eval-uation for system selection, so that a manager can relate his needs totechnical features which appear in our questionnaire. Section 4presents the technical data on systems surveyed. Section 5 presentsa brief description of the widely known, commercial data bases that areaccessible on some of the surveyed systems. Section 6 presents abibliography of related work that may also be helpful for informationsources.

2. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SYSTEMS UNDER STUDY

In this part, we discuss the rationale for including certain sys-tems in this index and excluding others. The intention has been toinclude every system for which there are "yes" answers to the followingquestions:

(1) Does it have an interactive query and search capability?(2) Is this capability geared for use by non-programmers?(3) Is the system available to any Federal ADP customer?

We will now explain what is meant by the three questions. The firstquestion is dealt with extensively, since arriving at an acceptableunderstanding of "interactive" has proved to be quite difficult.

2.1 Interactive Query and Search

The term "interactive system" is elusive when attempts are made topin down an exact definition. The problem is complicated by the factthat this and related terms have been used for promotional and adver-tising reasons as much as for technical reasons. Rather than try toestablish a hard definition, we sketch the intuitive meaning for theterm by placing it in perspective with other terms.

Terms currently in use to describe the processing of jobs by a com-puter system are batch, remote batch*, on-line, and interactive. Intui-tively, batch processing requires that all steps in a job, together withany required input, be specified prior to the job's initiation. A dis-

"Remote job entry" or "ROE" is often used and is synonymous with "remotebatch".

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tinction can be drawn between local batch and remote batch systems ac-cording to input via direct lines or via communication lines. The lat-ter require an extra layer of protocol which sometimes must be specifiedby the user. A batch program is one in which all parameters are speci-fied in advance, but also whose results are known only after completionof the whole job.

The term "on-line processing' is generally used to describe aspectrum of processing modes. The user communicates with an on-line sys-tem via a typewriter-like terminal (i.e., a terminal with a keyboardand possibly a display). The system actively acknowledges user input insore form, as opposed to the more passive remote batch systems. Thespectrum of processing modes is determined by the extent of this acknow-ledgenent, e.g. prompting after receipt of "input lines", prompting plus-yntax check of control cards, and so on. Interactive systems form aportion of the on-line spectrum. They are characterized by "friendly"responses to input errors, relatively rapid response to system commandsand the like. Generally, the interactive system _Links a system or userprogram directly with the user at all times, in contradistinction toother on-line systems. In the latter type, user and systems programsutilize the terminal mainly as a line printer.

The above distinctions are not rigorous, and from the user's viewnay be non-existent in a fast-response environment. The followingdiscussion tries to focus on the "interactive" system from the user'spoint of view. In the survey we include systems from the entire on-linespectrum but we have attempted to restrict inclusion to -Close which pre-sent some indication of interactivity either from the above considerationor from those following.

Imagine a system which allows a user to formulate a query at histerminal and submit that query for searching against a file, and whichprints out the records which satisfy that query, within a matter ofseconds. Such a system qualifies as having an "interactive query andsearch capability", although it is at the weaker end of the spectrumcompared to a system as now described.

This system allows the user to incrementally formulate a query, andresponds with intermediate results (e.g. the number of records satisfy-ing the query or similar terms or phrases which the user may also con -sider), based on which the user can re-formulate or extend his query.This cycle of system response with intermediate results leading to userre-formulation of query, etc. need have no upper limit. For example,the following user/system session is typical of one of the major eppli-cations of interactive systems, namely bibliographic search.

The user enters his query, e.g. "computers", which is checked forinclusion in an index of permitted terms. It is found to be includedand found to be a descriptor of say 1,104 documents in the system.The system responds with "1,104 hits". At this point the user modifieshis original request with "and the United States". The system respondswith "52 hits". The user then modifies his now complex query with

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"published since 1971". The system responds with 't hit". The userrequests the titles of these documents. On viewing them he then re-quests the full citations f,if three documents from that six that he real-ly is interested in. Such a system would be at the stronger end of the"interactive" spectrum.

2.2 Use by Non-programmers

Many customers want the capability of having a user who is not aprogrammer formulate queries at a terminal in a way that is relativelynatural for him. Many systems are designed in such a way that theirinteractive, query and search components are geared for use by non-pro-grammers: information specialists, managers, or clerical personnel. Wehave attempted to restrict our survey to such systems.

In some cases, the documentation for a system states that it is foruse by programmers. All such systems have been rejected. In some casesnot so rejected, inspection of a system's documentation forces us to re-ject it because there are requirements on the user to "do programming"of a sort. By this we mean that the user has to phrase some or all ofhis query (or operations preceding the query) in language constructswhich are primitive and unnatural in relation to his task of query andsearch.

For example, one system defines its files in terms of physicalstorage structure. In querying files, the affected files must be des-cribed by such parameters as transport number, number of logical recordsper physical record, and address of first block (of tape) or sector(of disc).

Another system has essentially a high level programming languagefor querying files. Each query is bracketed by a BEGIN-END pair andlanguage statements within are numbered hierarchically. Each statementpotentially produces a result which can be referred to in other state-ments by giving the statement number. An example is:

BEGIN1. FIND ALL RECORDS FOR WHICH GRADE = 22. COUNT RECORDS IN 13. PRINT ... COUNT IN 2END

The primitive nature of the statements forces the user to construct aprogram to query the system, even for the most logically simple requests.

2.3 Availability

We are including in this index systems which are available to theFederal customer. Availability implies that the system is operational

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(not in research or development) and still supported. There is also anunderstanding that there are no legal, security, or other problems inthe way of availability. The systems included here are either availableon a commercial basis or on a less formal and less costly basis in caseswhere the originator is not a commercial establishment. Further, wehave included both those systems which are available on a service basisand those which are available as packages for lease or purchase. .{

To summarize, we have attempted to include every data management orinformation retrieval system for which there are "yes" answers to thethree questions. Reasons for not including a system are: (1) it is abatch system; (2) its query language is not for use by non-programmers,(3) it (or its query language) is in research or development; (4) it isno longer supported; (5) the originator of the system is unlocatable orno longer in business; (6) there are legal or security problems in theway of releasing the system; and (7) documentation has been solicitedbut not yet received.

3. SYSTEM FEATURES AND EVALUATION REQUIREMENTS

3.1 Questionnaire with Explanatory Notes

Systems are built with different objectives and hence have differentcapabilities for different application situations. Since not all systemsprovide the same set of features to the same degree, it has been neces-sary here to establish features for describing systems relative to abroad range of possible user needs. The feature list or questionnaireused in this index is therefore the union of a wide number of possiblyrelevant capabilities, see Table 1. A specific system is characterizedby a subset of the features covered.

3.2 Suggested Procedure for Use

The survey results, Section 4, represent a nearly complete inventoryof availableinteractive software, and therefore are a basis for asses-sing the state-of-the-art in this field. The index is intended also tobe informative i the preliminary, exploratory stage of a system selec-tion activity. In this area, the index may aid a manager in articulatinghis requirerents using the offered features as a starting point. Further,the index nay be useful in forming a tentative set of candidate systems,by screening the inventory against a required subset of features. Thelatter of course imposes an inescapable burden on the user to relate hisunique needs to applicable features.

The suggested procedure for using this index can be illustrated bybriefly discussing questions arising in formulating requirements andevaluating information systems. Two basic alternatives would face aninformation service manager once he has decided to investigate thefeasibility of automated service, see Figure 1. If the expected usageis very high and a computer facility is in place, an in-house servicecould be considered. Compatibility with the available mainframe may

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TABLE 1.

QUESTIONNAIRE WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES

A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE

2. SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY

a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST

3. SERVICE AVAILABILITY

a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE

a. FIRST INSTALLATION

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

5. HISTORY Or SERVICE

a. SERVICE INITIATION

b. PRESENT USAGE

B. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES

5. TRANSMISSION RATES

6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

Additional names are given for

alternative versions.

System

originator is developer and

implementor.

Filled in if the computer

program package itself is

offered for customer

installation.

Filled in if remote service is

offered.

Filled in where the package

itself is offered.

Filled in where service is

offered.

Used to implement the software.

Identifies systems which can

serve rultiple users

simultaneously through

re-entrant code, thus

conserving storage.

C. FILr orrIraTIoN

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2. TIARIAbLE LENGTH TL XT

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Can the remote user define and

implement his own data and file

structures?

rn individual records

accomoeate text of any length,

or at leant as much as a

typical bibliographic abstract?

In it possible to.ave a

variable number of identically

named fields in a record,

);e71,ords or authcrn?

"On-line updating' refers to

change of the logical content

of a record, iyhile "on-line

editing' refers to an

ansociate0 capability to

selectively indicate partial

changesvpf,the record content.

Arc there functions to check

the 'correctness" of the

incoming data?

Can incoming data elements and

records be optionally ordered

with respect to pre-existing

elements and records in the

file?

Is there a preprogrammed

automatic or nachine-aided

process to scan raw text an

develop concept-indicating

ker,ords and phraset?

TABLE I., CONTINUED

E. QUERY

1. USER-SYSTE, INTERACTION

a. WLTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LIXE

PPRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE

2. CONTENT srAnomp:

a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY

b. FULL TEXT INVERSION

c. STEMMING PERMITTED

d. SYNONYM.

e. DISPLAY. OF

RELATED TEPrr

f. CHECKING TERM IN CON-

TROLLED mOCADVIAPY

During a session with the

system, does the user have the

freedom to specify various

actions at any time?

For

example, after entering a

search term, is the user

returned to a state where he

may choose more terns, review

previous choices, or execute

the search?

Do the system commands have

English or near-English names

indicating their function?

Is the user completely "led

along" by the system in a

dialog completely controlled by

the system?

Is the user required to use a

pre-established set of search

terns?

Can the user use any word

expected in text (excepting

perhaps an excluded list of

stop words like "a', "of",

"the"?)

Can the user specify a set of

search terms by using a root

expression such as 'conpUt*".

where * has all the values "e",

"ex-% "ere, etc.

Does the system have the

capability of specifying a

class of semantically

equivalent terms either in its

vocabulary or else by

definition?

Can the system display terms

from its vocabulary which are

equivalent to a given term or

are more or less specific, but

related to it?

Is there a command which checks

a given input term for

inclusion in a controlled

vocabulary and perhapsgives

immediate alphabetic neighbors?

3. SEAPCP CPECIEICATION

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h. PlAy LIMIT rirLES

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d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT

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Is it necensary to always

specify fields in query

formulation, e.g.,

"AuthorsTreud"?

Is it possible to nrecify

fields in query formulation to

limit or control the search?

Is there an explicit capability

for taping two valid search

expressions and connecting them

with AND or OR so as to

Construct a new eXpressien with

the usual Boolean

interpretation?


for negating a valid search

expression hy preceding it with

NOT?


for enbedding search

expressi,ns within other search

expressions?

Is it possible to use

multi-word strings an search

terms? Is it possible to use a

ouery which specifies that two

terms must occur within some

stated distance in the text

from each ether?

Can the user phrase his search

objective in natural Fnolis,

sentences and phrases?

IS there a capability for

specifying a range of numeric

values in a search expressicri,

e.e., "...published since

1971"?

Is there a Cern,and which gives

assistance to a user on what

options are available to his at

various points in a session?

Can the uner get at

documentation on-line which

explains the system, the data

hoses, etc.-?

TABLE I., CONTINUE:

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

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3. SPECIAL CAPABILITIES

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h. smuhacING

C. COUNTINC

d. A4TT1MTIC

C. SECURITY

1. TER.INAL

2. DATA RASE

3. RECORD

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technique used in the

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individual record uni,:uely

located:

a. from an index,

L. by consecutive search of

each record in the file,

c. within a croup of records?

How are alternative output

formats determined?

Can the user write a program to

specify his output format?

Do programs exist to display

simple charts and graphs?

Are there special output forms

(c.q., microfilm, etc.)

available?

Can output be selectively

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Refers to a capability for

sorting or "ranking' by

relevance to a query.

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then be the overriding factor in the selection of a software package tobe installed. The index can be used to find as prine candidates thesystems implemented on the given vendor hardware. However, if expectedusage is low, say on the order of a few hours of terminal use per day,or if a computer center and necessary expertise are unavailable, a worthyalternative would be to obtain use of software as a service from anoutside computing center. A pertinent question then is whether theservice offers searching of a major commercial data base, if requ3.red,or takes customer data bases 3f a special private file is involved. Theindex also assists in finding initial candidates based on these factors.

Having pursued one of the above alternatives to identify a relevantsubset of available system, attention should turn to technical featuresdesirable or necessary for the intended application. The questions inthe index were purposely selected to draw out distinctions in threebroad classes of system application, called respectively formatted dataprocessing, structured text searching, and personal text handling. Asa tutorial guide for the index user to articulate his unique requirements,these classes will be individually discussed toward framing a representa-tive list of essential and additional desirable features (Tables 2-4).

Formatted data processing is conceived as most typical of managementinformation, Military command/control, and other applications where dataelements have mostly numerical, abbreviated text, or other encoded(e.g. date) values. Personnel, inventory, or production control fileswould be common examples. Data values in the file may need to be up-dated frequently as status changes occur in the application environment(e.g. personnel are reassigned, parts are used, or products moved fromone manufacturing station to another). This is motivation for requiringon-line file maintenance as an essential capability. In Table 2, there-fore, D. 1 indicates that a qualifying system must allow update orediting transactions to be entered from the user's remote terminal (seeTable 1 for explanation of items under D.1). Foniiatted data processingsoftware must provide considerable flexibility to the user in manipulat-ing file data in any logically correct order and with a wide range ofarithmetic functions. These are essential because such systems areusually applied concurrently to a number of differently organized files.Also, they must help their user to answer an indeterminable variety ofquestions about relationships and quantities in the file data. In Table2, the conclusion is reflected in choices of: an interaction languagewith r- 'iltiple options (E.l.a), a full Boolean capability to expresslogical or comparion conditions (E.3.c through E.3.f), and arithmeticcapabilities (F.3.c and d). Users of these systems also require a rangeof options in formatting output reports, so that essential factors canbe made clearly visible and effectively ordered with respect to relateddata. For these reasons, optional formatting (F.l.b and c) and ordering(F.3.a) are included as essential in Table 2.

Related to these essential features are several additional onesthat seem especially desirable and are often available. In some cir-cumstances they may be considered essential. Repeatable fields (C.3)

9

are a great convenience in organizing and referencing the machine filewhen records have multiple occurrences of the same type of data (e.g.children or work experience in a personnel file). This may also saveconsiderable machine storage for many files. English-like languagephrasing (E.l.b) aids user comprehension and ease of use, in conjunctionwith the multiple option language characteristic. Range searching(E.3.i) and displays of graphs (F.2.b) significantly enhance selectionof desired records and data presentation in a more readily perceivedform. Tutorial aids (E.t.a or b) are highly desirable, even essential,to bring users quickly toward effec-ve use of complex software or tohelp solve usage problems as they are encountered.

Structured text searching (Table 3) is conceived as representativeof bibliographic information searching, legal text searching, and sim-ilar uses where the file records consist of prescribed segments of text,individually of variable length (C.2 in Table 1), possibly rather long(1000 characters or more). Examples of text segments would be reporttitles, abstracts, patent claims, patagraphs, statute sections. Toidentify a text record for selection there must be a technique forabbreviated content description, since requiring an exact match to allthe text in a segment would be inconceivable and inconsistent with theintended function. Content description may be provided by indexing eachfile record by a set of keywords from a controlled vocabulary (E.2.a)which the user can inspect to check his desired term for acceptability(E.2.0. Or else, any significant word occurring in text may be pro-vided as a valid search term (E.2.b). Because these systems are espe-cially aimed at users .unaccustomed to programming encoded forms, English -

like phrasing is deemed essential as well. Because a search may selectvoluminous text records that would be exceedingly long to print on theusual 10 or 30 character/second terminals, off-line printing (F.2.a) athigh speed is also essential. Moreover, these systems should presenta count (F.3.c) of the records that would be selected by a proposedsearch o that a user can judge the desirability of continuing the search.

The data files of structured text searching systems would be expect-ed to be unchanging in content and very large in volume. It would beexpensive to reorder or restructure them as new data is received, so itwould be desirable for the system to accept new data in any order (D.3).Other desirable features would extend content searching capability, forexample by giving a synonym facility (E.2.d) or a presentation of otherterms that are conceptually related (E.2.e). As in formatted dataprocessing, tutorial aid is desirable. In contrast to that applicationhowever, full Boolean capability, optional report formatting, and op-tional ordering are suggested here as desirable rather than essential.Only a Boolean AND, allowing the conjunction of distinct search terms,is imperative for user convenience, to avoid a tedious selection fromrecord subsets found by individual terms. Optional formatting and order-ing may not be used often for such simple structured output records asbibliographic citations. A standard output presentation then is general-ly sufficient, unless text fields become numerous and frequently ofmarginal importance, requiring more selectivity to be given the user.

10

Personal text handling is conceived as a generalization of struc-tured text searching to uniquely serve an individual researcher increation, editing, and composition of text bodies as well as searchingthem. Examples arise in military intelligence work, legal case pre-parations, source book or encyclopedia preparation, etc. Most of therequirements of structured text searching apply. The most germaneadditions are for user definable file structures (O.1) and on-linefile maintenance (D.1), which allow complete user flexibility to estab-lish arbitrary new files in the course of his interactive usage. Option-al output formatting becomes essential because of the potential varietyand scope of file structures. A highly desirable search capabilitywould be phrase and distance searching (E.3.g), to permit the researcherto more narrowly select desired records based on occurrence of phrasesor words in context (separated by limited distance). As the researchermay establish many records with grossly similar content within hisspecial interest, this additional selectivity has great importance.

The above rationale indicates the type of analysis which may leadthe user to a pertinent feature list for his situation.

Table 5 illustrates using the worksheet for structured text search-ing to develop comparative presentations of system capabilities. Theseare the basic questions which the index user may answer in such fashion:are there systems offering the essential combination of features? isthere a good number of desirable systems, portending a competitivechoice in cost, types of vendor support, proven system reliability, etc.?is the cost range of desirable systems within the funds available fora purchase or subscription? Positive answers should build confidencethat an economical, proven system can be obtained, while negative answersmay indicate a presently infeasible set of requirements or a constrainedarea where further research and system development is advisable.

It is suggested that each index user develop his own worksheet offeatures for his needs. Table 1 shows that the index permits a sharperdelineation of required features than used in Tables 2 to 5. It isexpected also that individual readers will perceive special featuresfor their need that are not used here, and will have to be speciallyinvestigated for all systems of interest. The index is meant to helpdraw attenti"n to that subset of systems of greatest interest and re-levance.

The index is primarily meant however to aid state-of-the-art assess-ments. We see in the index results many disparities calling attentionto needed research, and also many common factors indicating a readilyavailable, recognized feature. Regarding the former, we note particular-ly that only half of the systems have tutorial capability - yet none areconsidered trivial to use. The design of effective training aids andproblem diagnosis features is a very important area for further develop-ment. On the other hand, almost all systems offer English-like phrasingin their language style. This is encouraging for it is clearly desir-able and of little added cost to implement in terms of meaningful com-mand names. 11

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It is neither intended or recommended that the survey results orthe broad feature list should be adopted as the exclusive basis of asystem selection. A csmpetitive selection decision requires a much moredetailed matching of user requirements with functional features, coupledwith a productivity assessment addressing performance and cost factors.The background for this task necessarily involves familiarity with auser's. organization and its forcing constraints, such as the neededdata files and their characteristics, funds available, allowable imple-mentation time, present computer equipment, and available programmingskills. The tools to be employed in system evaluation include benchmarkexercises, performance monitoring, simulation and modeling, hands-onexperience, detailed documentation review, and thorough audit tests.Inasmuch as this survey has been based primarily on documentation review,it cannot be evaluative of one system against another. Managers facinga selection decision are advised then to acquire system documentation,at least to the level of a complete user's manual, and to undertakehands-on familiarization or benchmark exercises to thoroughly understandeach system's capability for his user community and procurement- con-straints.

14. SURVEY RESULTS

4.1 Indexes To Systems

As an aid to the reader, this section presents several examples ofclassification of information systems drawn from the questionnaires.Following is a brief description of each of the four illustrativeclassifications.

Applications:

As examples of application classes, there are three types considered:formatted data structured text and personal text. The relevant featureshave been described in Section 3.2. Table 6 presents a matrix for thiscategorization. This may help the reader direct his first attention tosystems closely corresponding to an intended usage.

Main Frames:

The matrix of Table 6 dealing with mainframes correlates the systemsin the survey with the (classes of) main frames on which each runs. Theclassification "other" is used for those main frames for which only oneof the systems is available. For these systems, reference to the spec-ific questionnaire will give the appropriate main frame (B.O.

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age to be installed at the user's site, or as a service running at thevendor's site.

Ownership:

TWo categories are used to describe ownership of a system. The term"public" designates those systems in which the originator (or vendor)has not retained a substantial monetary interest, such as those whichhave been completely government funded. These systems are generallyavailable (source and source listings) for a nominal fee, such as tapeduplication. In some cases, the producer or vendor may only considerassistance for a fee, covering installation, modifications, and possiblymaintenance. This assistance may be contractual and include on-sitepersonnel in the case of packages, or resource costs, in the case ofservices.

The "proprietary" systems are those that are wholly owned by privateconcerns. Generally there is a purchase price on the system. Howeverin the case of some main frame manufacturers, the system may be availablewithout additional cost to the purchasers or lessors of their equipment.

16

I4.2 The Inventory of Systems

Nam PageBASIS 18CDMS 19CIRCOL 20(Data /Central). . . 21DIALOG . . . .. . 22MARS . . 23. ....DML . . . 24.. . ..DRS . . 4 25....DS/3 . ... . 26EMISARI . . ... II . 27ENFORM . .. . 28FLEXIMIS .... 29GIM 30GIPSY . .. e 411 31MARS 32IMS(OEP) 33IMS/360 . . . 34IMS/8 35INQUIRE 36L4SYTE 37LEADERMART 38MARX IV 39MARS III . . . 40*SellMARS VI . s . . . 41MASTER CONTROL . . . . 42MICROTEXT . . . .. 43MINIDATA 44MIRADS 45FUSE 46NASIS 47N.Y.TIMES . . . . . 48OLIVER 49ORBIT III 50PIRETS 51QUERY UPDATE . . . . 52RAMIS 53RECON 54RFI 55RIOS 56

d,i,r..., SHOEBOX 57k SOLAR 58

SPIRES II 59STAIRS 60SYSTEM 2000 61TICON 62UNIDATA 63

17


C. FILE DEFINITION

3. SEARCH SPECIFICATION

a. 'MUST NAME FIELDS

Yes

1. USER DEFINABLE

Yes

b. HAY LIMIT FIELDS

Yes

1. SYSTEM NAME

BASIS (Battelle Automated

C. BOOLEAN AND

Yes

Search Information System)

2. VARIABLE LENGTH TEXT

Yes

d. BOOLEAN OR

Yes

ORIGINATOR

Battelle Memorial Institute

C. BOOLEAN NOT

Yes

505 Xing Ave.

3. REPEATED FIELDS

Yen

f. NESTING OF BOOLEAN

TELEPHONE

Columbus, Ohio 43201

C14-299-3151

EXPRESSIONS

a. PHRASE AND DISTANCE

Yes


D. PILL MAINTENANCE

SEARCE/NG

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

No

No

a. FOR PURCHASE

By special arrangement

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

i.RANGE SEARCHING

Yes

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


Approx. 530,010

Yes,

'1,00/mo.

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

C. DELETION

4, TUTORIAL FEATURES

a. 'KELP' CO?5(AND

b, DOCUMENTATION

No,

developed.

a. SEARCH SERVICE.

Battelle can develop a file and

provide search service for it.

d. EDITING

ON-LINE

Yes

Service also available through

2. PREPROGRAMMED DATA

S.SEARCH STRATEGY

membership in Science

Information Association (STA).

VALIDATION CHECKS

Yes

a. EANDOM

b, SEQUENTIAL

Yes

No

AT WHAT COST

File implementation cost +

on-line search cost

3. OPTIONAL ORDERING

ENTERED DATA

Yen


No

($0.50-0.75/min.)

b. DATA BASES

AMIC, MCTC, Copper Data, DOT -TRIS,

NTIS (3 yrs.), Chemical

4. AUTOMATIC OR

"ACHIEC -AIDED

E. PEPOPT GENERATION

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

Condensates (3 yrs.), DOD Cost

Data, and 26 others.

CONTENT INDEXING

Yes

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a.

STA

ND

AR

DOUTPUT

h. SELECT AMONG

Yes

DATA BASES

Yes

E. QUERY

OPTIONS

c. Ots7 CODE

Yes

Yes

4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE


July, 1970

1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACT/ON

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

b. SIGNIFICANT

AT ANY POINT

Yes, prompting


INSTALLATIONS

Battelle, National Security

plus command

a. Orr-LINE PRINTING

Yes

Agency

b. ENGLISH-LIKE


Yes

PHRASING

C. SYSTEM-FORCED

Yes

c, SPECIAL OUTPUTS

Plotting on

micrGfilm

S. HISTORY OF SERVICE

DIALOGUE

No


a. COSTING

Yes


July, 1970

2. CONTENT SEARCHING

b. SEQUENCING

No

b. PRESENT USAGE

Over 900 users, most at Battelle's


Yes

C. COUNTING

Yen


Information Centers.

Government

users include EPA, DOT, DOD.

b. FULL TEXT INVEREIoN

C. STEMMING PERMITTED

d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

Yes

Yes

Yes

d. AR/TH"TTIC

C. SECURITY PROTECTION

Yen

1. MAIN FRAME

CDC 6400, UNIVAC 1108

RELATED TEES


Yes

1. TERMINAL

No

2. OPERATING SYSTE"

CDC SCOPE 3.2, 3.3, 3,4

TROLLED VOCABULARY.

Yes

2. DATA BASE

Yes

UNIVAC EXEC -13

3. RECORD

Yes

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

95% FORTRAN, 5% Assembler

4. FIELD

No

4. TERMINAL TYPES


TTY compatible, CDC 200 series

terminals

6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

110, 150, 305, 2000, 2400, 41300

baud

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA RASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

CONS

System Development Corp.

2500 Colorado Ave.

Santa Monica, Calif. 90406

213-393-9411

Available from COSMIC (Computer

Software Management and

Information Center of the

University of Georgia)

Software service available

(including on ARPA network)

$2,100 per month minimum

None public

Yes

IDES (predecessor of EDMS)

installed in may 1966

National Military Command

System Support Center, and CIA

Washington, D.C.

5. HISTORY OF SERVICE

a. SERVICE INITIATION July 1969

b. PRESENT USAGE

2 accounts in Washington area

(ARPA network), usage unknown

R. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN rrAmE

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

IBM 360/50, IBM 370/145 and up

SDC's TS/EXEC, IBM OS/VS1

JOVIAL

IBM 2741, TTY models 33, 35

10, 15. 30 cps

No

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE.

2. "AR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED rIE.T.Ds

D. FILE, MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

C. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGRAM= DATA

VALIDATION CHECES

3. orT/ONAL ORDERING or

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4. AVTOMA"'IC OP

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CONTENT INDEXING

E. (QUERY

1. USER-SYSTEm INTERACTION

a. muLTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNOMYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

No , 255 char. max.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes, if user defined

Yes, on user

designated fields

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No

Yes


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

B. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT MAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

4. HISTORY Or SOFTWARE


b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE

n. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRAST FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

CIRCOL.

Foreign Technology Division

Air Force Systems Command

Wright-Patterson Air Force

Base, Ohio 45433

513-257-2G03

NA

Yes, to government agencies.

By arrangement.

Foreign scientific and

technical documents.

No

NA

Early 1969

40 agency users.

CIRCOL is built on IBM's

Document Processing System.

IBM 360/65

OS 360/MVT

Assembler Language

VP: 2741. TTY node's 33, 35

10, 15 cps

No

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. VAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. TILE MAINTENANCE

I. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS

3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OF

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

-

"ACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. OVER?

1. USER - SYSTEM INTERACTION

a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE



b. PULL TEXT INVERSION

c. S.TErmINC PERMITTED

d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

f. CHECKING TERM In CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yen

No

Yes

.Yes

SoNo

No

No

Yeg

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No No

Yen

Yes

NO

NO

3.

SEARCH SPECIE/CATION

A. ".UST NAME FIELDS

No

h, mAY Limn- FIELDS

Yes

c. BOOLEAN AND

Yen

d. BOoLEAN OR

Yes

e. BOOLEAN NOT

Yes

f. NESTING OF DOOLEAN

ExPREsSIONs

Yes

g. PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

Yen

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

No

1. RANGE .SEARCHING

Yes


A. 'DELP' CO "MAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON -LINE

5. =ARC! STRATEGY

a. ,..ANDOm

b. SEQUENTIAL


r. REPORT GENERATIM

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

"CODE

2. "EDIA ELExIBILTTy

a. OFF-LINE PRINTING

b. DISPLAY Or GRAPHS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


A. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC

G. SECURITY PROTECTION

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE,

3. RECORD

4. El=

Ho

Yes, partlal

Ho

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

NONO

Yen

NoYes

Yes

Yes

CIO

NoNo


1., SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


A. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

(Data/Central)

Plead Technology Laboratories

Research Park

Dayton, Ohio

45432

(513) 426 -3111

NO

Yes

$1500 a month for DOS, $1800 a

month for OS

Yes

$5,000 a month

American Psychology Abstracts,

data base of statutory and

decisional law in the state of

Ohio, and many others.

Yes


a. MAST INSTALLATION 1968

h. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

Wright- Patterson Air Force

Base, Union Carhide

5. IL STORY OF sEnvICE

a. SERVICE INITIATION 1969

h. PRESENT USAGE

10 organizational users

B. CONFUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN ERAME'

2. OPERATING SYSTEF

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERmINAL TYPES


6. RC-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE. USERS

Intt 360/40 and up

DOS or oS

Assembly, COBOL, FORTRAN

CRT, TTY, all INN hard copy

10, 30, 120 cps

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGPAmMED DATA

VALIDATION CLECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AuTOmATIC OP.

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

F. QUERY

1. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION

a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-PORCED

DIALOGUE


a. h.

c.d.

c. f.

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY

FULL TEXT INVERSION

STEMMING PERMITTED

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

CHECKING TERM IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yen

Yes

Yes

No No

Yes

?es

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yen

No

No

Yo5,

Yes

Yes, as

equivalents

Yes

No


1, SYSTEM NA.mr

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. rOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. iJR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERV/2E

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA RASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



h. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

DIALOG

Lockheed Research Lab,

3251 Hanover

Palo Alto,Calif. 94304

Dr. Roger Summit

415-493-4411

Yes, by Govt.agencies

Negotiable

Yes, On installation and

maintenance basis.

Negotiable

Yes, Iron Lockheed Palo Alto

v:al telephone, TWX, and

Tymshare Inc. network for

dial-up user; also Lockheed

high-speed leased line.

Based on data base and

elapsed terminal hours.

Typically. 525/hr. on ERIC,

$35/hr. on NTIS, no minimum.

NTIS, ERIC, PANDEX, Psych.

Abstracts, CO°PENDEX, INSPEC,

and others.

Yes

1988 at Lockheed, serving

NASA--early version of PECON.

Lockheed, AEC (Oak Ridge), NASA,

European Space Research

Organization

1971 (ERIC),1972 (NTIS)

Nat.Institute of Education,

Dept. of Commerce (NTIS),

state, local and education

agencies; and Commercial users.

(More than 1,500 searches,

totally, per nonth)

IBM 360/370

OS/mVT

Assembler

ASCII compatible, IAN 2260,

CC 30

10-480 cps

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2.

"AR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT

3,

,EREATED rimar

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS. OH -LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGRAMITD DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS

3. OPTIONAL ORDERING OE

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACH/NE-AIDED

CONTENT =En:RI

E. QUERY

1. USER-SYSTEM INTERACTION

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h, ENGLISH-7./KE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE


a. CONTROLLED VOCABILARY

h. FULL TEXT INVERSION


d. SYNONYMS

No

Yes

Yes ra:Itaction

may te

entered and

on-line

later

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No,Lut rEARCn

SAVE feature

sfores

e. I,ISPLAY 07

Yes

nrLATED TERMS

f. cnrCEINE TERM IN CON- Yes

TROLLED VOCABUIARY


a. MEET NAME FIELDS

h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

e. BOOLEAN OP

e. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NESTING or RooLEAN

EXPRESSIONS


SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i.TANGS SEARCHING

4. TUTOR/AL FEATURES

a. 'HELP' COMMAND

b. nocuvraTATron

ON-LINE

5. reARcp STRATEGY

a. PANDOM

h. SEQUENTIAL

c. INDEXED srovENTIAL

. REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

Y. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE


a. OFF -LINE PRINTING

h. DIPPL1Y or GRAPES

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


as SORTING

h. SEOwEnCral

C. COUNTING

d.- ARITHMETIC

G. SECDPITY PROTECTION

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BATE

3.

RECC,F,I

4. FIELD

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes,

byacrzesstcr

Yes

Yes

No

NOYes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Tatlo

:'ficrcfsrm anc

;,-nctt,c7.1-A.titIch

thrttgn tatch

suOsyotem

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes, on terminal

tasis

No

Ho

A. GENERAL DESCRITTION

1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE

DEARS

Firs.. Data Corp.

400 Totten rend Rd.

Waltham, Mass. 02154

4,17-890-6701


NA

a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

Yes

50.35/cpu sec + ,10/connect

hour.

DOT grants trace data base

(soon to be public), other data

bas-m on informal agreement

with user-owners.

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

Yes


NA


b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



3rd quarter, 1972

b. PRESENT USAGE

30 users in DO"! (Off. of Sec.,

UMTA) + others


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES

S. TRANSMISSION RATES

6. RC- ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

DECSystem 10

TIM (modified by First Data)

FORTRAN + MACRO -l0

ASCII, IBM code comptible

In. 15, 30, 120 cps

Yes

C. PILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. RARIAELr LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

0. FILE "A/NTENANCE

1. ALLOWS oN-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. rDITING

2. PREPROGRAMMED BATA

VALIDATION CHECKS

3. OPTIONAL ORDMINO or

ENTERED DATA

4. AuTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY

1. USER-SYSTEU INTERACTION

a. mtnTIRLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Ye:.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

"res

Yes

No

No

No, embedded strin

search in named

field

Yes, by string

search

No:

No

No

3. SEARCH SPECICICATION

a. ',UST NAME r/r/or

t. MAY LIMIT rIELDF

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

C. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NESTING Or BOOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS


SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

1. RANCE SEARCHING

S. TUTORIAL FEATURES

a. 'HELP` COsSIAND

b. ooctrtcNTATroN

ON-LINE

5. rrAncu STRATEGY

A. RANDOm

b. SEQUENTIAL

C. INDEXED SEOuENTIAL

r. REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. "'ELECT At,ro,:r

OPTIONS

OWN CODE

2. NEDIA FLEXIBILITY

a. OFF -LINT. PRINTING

h. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS

C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. scour,..cING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. nrcoko

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NO NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yec

Yes

.Yes

YAs

ro

No

Yes

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

7.7n

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

b.C.

AT WHAT COST

DATA BASES

TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGVIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

DML

Computer Sciences Corp.

Information Network Div.

650 N. Sepulveda Blvd.

El Segundo, Ca. 90245

213-678-0311

NA

Yes, package is available

CSC time-sharing service.

Government rates based on

usage.

None public

Yes

NA March 1972

Approx. 30 Covernment and

commercial users.

Univac 1108

CSTS

Assembler

mTY models 33, 35, 37; IBM

2741; CRT devices.

10-240 cps

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILL. MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON -LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

on


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

C. QUERY

1. FSER-SYSTEM INTERACTION

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE


a.

b. c.

d. e.

f.

CONTROIrFn VOCABULARY

FULL TEXT INVERSION

STErM/NG PERMITTED

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY or

RELATED TETIF

CHECKING Trn IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

No, 128

char:±ield

r126

tX.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No, but

programmable

in DML

No, but

programmable

in DXL

No

Yes

Yes

No

None directly

provided but

capabilities

prograrznable

in DRL

3. SEARCH spEcrrrcATron

a. MUST NAME FIELDS

b. MIY LI MIT FIELDS

c. BOO: JAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS

PHRASE. AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING

q.

4. TUTORIAL rrATuREs

a. 'HELP' COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON -LIVE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. TtANDOm

b. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

C. OWN CODE




C. SPECIAL OUTPLTS


a. SORTING

b. szouzucina

C. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC

SECURITY PROTECTION

I. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4.FIELD

Yes

Yen

Yes, for

,,rithmetic

omparison:1

Yes

NO

Yen

No

NoYes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

Nn

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, through

operating

system

Yes

No

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE

2. SOFTWARE AVAILAD/LITY

a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WIAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

h. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

DRS (Data Retrieval System)

A.R.A.P., Inc.

$0 Washington Rd.

Princeton, N.J. 08540

609-452-2950

Yes

$2300 (CK IBM 1130 version).

S2800 (ICK IBM 1130 version),

$9500 base for IBM 360/370

version.

Yen

S1IS-140/mo.

(2 Yr. payout for

Mr+ ..,30 versions.)

Yen

By arrangement

None of vide interest.

Yes


A. FIRST INSTALLATION 1970 (IBM 1130), 1973 (IBM 370)

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

Over 40 installations of IBM

1130 version.


a. SERVICE INITIATION NA

b. PRESENT USAGE

About 12 users


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING. SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERmINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

IBM 1130, IBM 34/1/370

Gs/1130 version 2, OS/360,370

FORTRAN

IBM 2741, 1050, ASR-33 TTY

(with adaptor)

10-120 cps

No

c. PILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELD

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

E.

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS

3. OPTIONAL onorRiNc OF

ENTERED DATA

4. ANTOmATIC OR

mcurNr-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

QUERY

1. USER-SYSTEri INTERACTION

a. 'IULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENc.L/sR-Lxxr

PHRASING

c. SYSTEm-FORCED

ovumaur

2. CONTENT :SEARCHING


h.

c.

d.e. f.

FULL TEXT INVERSION

STVTiING PERMITTED

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

CHECKING TM.. IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

NoYes

No, 1000

char/field

limit

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Yes, if

keyword field

defined for

a file

iio nnNn

No


a. MUST NAME ,-TELDs

b. '1AY LXRIT YIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NESTING or BoOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

q. h. NATURAL rNOLTSn

i. RANGE SEARCHING

TUTORIAL FEATURES

a. "HELP" COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

A. RANDOm

h. SEOURNT/AL

c. INDEXED EEOUENTIAL

F. n.EpoRT GENERATION

1. LAurbAcr TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. Olvu CODE

7. !InarA FLEXIBILITY

A. OFF -LINE PRINTING

b. DISPLAY OF (MARRS

c. SPECIAL Or-TITS

3. SPECIAL ouvolLITrrs

a. SORTING

b. srouruczN:.;

c. CouNTIn.

d. ARITEmi-Z,"


I. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, phrases

only in one

fiell

Yes

None

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoYes, rag

tape and

hard copy

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ye%

Yes

Yes

Yes

A. crNrrAL nrSCrII,TI,^!

1. sYrTr- nA"r

oPICINATDk

TELL:WO:IL

2. SOPTWARE ADAILNUILITY

a. ror! runCVAsr

AT WAT ConT

L. rPR LrAru

AT WVAT CorT

3. rrTvICE AVAILUILITY

a. rEARCI! SErvICn

AT WrAT Cor.T

b. DATA EIASrr

c. TANrr CD'T(VTR

DATA AArEr

4. UIFTORY OF roTw7r17

a. rITzrT /NrTALLATION

h. rIC%/PICANT

INSTALLATIDr:r

5. UIFTOPY OP

a. rr71,ICE

b. PRESENT

r/1

Suter *)evolcoment Corp.

2%^^ Colorado :,ve

ranta **onion, Calif. 904N7

Yes

Terminal vernicn-rr-,,PD1.

Datch/TPO vorsion-^1^,^DD

Yon

Terminal. version-r2000 /mo.

ratch/TrO versioL-;^^V70.

run on SDc'n

Prices available on request.

:Ione

rsos custorer-sunrIloe data

loancn only.

April 19r^

Dont. of Eoalth, Education &

Welfare, Coast CorrUnity

Colleme District, Los

ngeles

POIjce Dept.

SEP!'/Cr

INTTTAT/nri

1973

urArrr

under nervice aerecncntn:

National Connision on the

rinancing of Post recondary

Education, t'CLA Creational

Cducatior

U. Cr?PUTPP r::rRonrnT

I.

!1 Arm rnA!Ir

2. DPERATINC SYSTE`,

3. SOUPCr. LANCVAnr

4. TET!INAL TYPEF

5. TnANP'/F5ION I2ATEr

C. Pr-CnTD.A:IT

TTLTIPIX usrrr

TIP* 30,A, nodel 40 and up,

370/145 and up

Or

rinL end *v1L

TTY node: 33, rr" 2741 nr

cornatil-le (?pukes; ""ro

vernion-i,hAtever device,: Tr°

supnortg.

In, 125, 240, 300 cps

Yes

C.r7;:

I. PF°

7.

'pr:Anr.

LY;;C:TP TEXT

3. Vrr,ATIP r1.7:1,1)F

D. riu 2.LLOW!,

cTTATTT:

T'rDATF

c.

r,ATA

"ALIDATio:: cnrcr:'

1. orTloAL ^rnr^r:X. or'

rNTPPFD

4. ,7J-1YY*ATIC DV

"ACUr:r-P.IDED

rov:TENO TEDEXINc

1. err*,-rYrTE" innTA!N'TioN

a. -rLTIPLE 00TIrr.:r

A71Y POTNT

rNt:L/5*P-LIET

PliPASV:C

c. ryrTr--rO,crl,

IJALocrL

2. CONTVNT :--rrneurNr

L..a. co:rnro1.1,7':> -oCArr1.7

'PTV:7T nr7-,r:r,r;

c.

nEDITTED

rr:nr:y"n

0. DIr7rLAV

LATVD Trnrs

f. crrCgr!:c TI'"'"

ror;-

-rourn

Yo,

Yrs

!,

4. *:ITOPIA:. rr1Tb71:r

"r;'Lr' c

rrAl"ci:

r. PIPD"T

Yos

(I'

,L')

I. LA%c:rAc

TYPF

a.

7.:?7:07',7D otTrtT

Yen,

1 hinds

=rc-7

OPTIONF

Yr,

" r'"% Com,

Yen

CDTA rLrxrrtTLITY

a. (1-r-Lnr rrInTTr,

L. .)If-PLAY ^r C'APP^

c. f7Pi-CIAL ot77PUTn

1. rrECIAL CEPriL/TTrr

a. roPTINC

b. rEoUT7:Crir

c. Cor*iTI*4-

O. EPJTP"ETIC

rECCPITT PROTICTIo**

I. TI-0777,:pt

2. DATA nArr

3. rrrOnn

4. rirl.p

Yen

Yrn

Yon

Yen

Yc

Yrs

Yrn

Yes

Yes

No Yes

A. nENEFAL DEncRIPT/oN

1. SYSTrm NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


7.

a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST

Sr,"ICE AVAILABILITY

a, SEARCH STRVICr

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTO "EP

DATA BASIS

EMISARI

Mathematics and Computation

Laboratory

Office of Emergency

Preparedness

7706 Old Springhousc Rd.

ncLean, Va. 22101

703-391-7710

Source free to government

users; compiler is proprietary

(see T.3)


a. rIRST INSTALLATION Aug..

1971

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

Internal aevenue Service,

Office of Emergency

Preparedness


RP


b. PRESENT USACE

B. COMPUTER ENVIRON

I. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYsTEm

3. socRoF LANGUAGE

A. TERMINAL TYPES

UNIVAC 110n

EXEC R

RBASIC (proprietary compiler;

vendor- LAnguAce And System

Development, Silver Spring,

Md.)

ASCII compatible


10 or 30 cps

K. RF-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

Yes

C. rTLE bErIniTioN

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. vAR/AnI27, LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED rIELDS

a.PILE mAINTENANCE

1. ALLOW, (N -LINE

a. CREATION

h. ('PRATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITiNc

2. PREpRoaRAmmED DATA

NTALIDATIoN cITECKS


FNTERnu DATA

4. AETO"ATIC OR

"ACR/Nr-AIDM

CONTENT INDEXING

E. (+EERY

1. uscrsysTrm IFTFRAcTion

a. ":LTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. Enc.:LISP-LIFE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE.

2. CONTENT SEARCIUNC


b. FULL TEXT nr,FRs/oN


d. SYWNNYMS

e. DISPLAY or

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Yen

Yen

No Yes

Yen.

Yen

Yen

Ye°

no

No Yen

no

ro Yes

NONoNo

No

C.. rEcuRITY PROTECT/OD

I. SEARCH SPEC/FICATIoN

A. 'R'ST NAmE FIELDS

Y. MAY 1..1"22 FIELDS

r. PoolEAN AND

d. PooLrAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NoT

f. NESTING Or .flooLrAN

v,YrPrSinNs

c. PPRAsr AND Disv.Ncr

sLAncianc,

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE srAncNiNc

4. TuTOR/AL FIVITURrE

o. "HELP' COMMA!D

b. DOCV"E'ITATI(V.

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RAND,Y1

b. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPr

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

h. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. r

coDr

'. mrDIA FLEXIPILITY

a. OFF-I./NU PR/NTINO

h. 13/SPLAY or CPAppS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS

3. sprCIAL CAPABILITIES

a. SORTING

b. STOCII!X/NG

c. COUNTING

a. AR/TVMETIC

1. TFR?INAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. rrELD

NoTCR

Yen

Yes

Yen

Yen

Yes,

VnYen

Yes

Yes

Yon

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

NoNo

"0

No Vo

Yes

Yes

PI,E

d5e%

.

Yes

Yes, on text blocks

No

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR'PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST

ENFORM

Engineering Numerics Cern.

8585 N. Stemmons Erwy.

Dallas, Tx. 75247

214-630-0640

Yes

Minimum software 525,000

Yen

Two-year lease, approx.

51250/mo.


NA

a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES


a. FIRST INSTALLATION About 1868

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS


NA


b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

CDC 6000 series

SCOPE or !LIMNOS

FORTRAN, COBOL

CDC 200 terminal,

TTY - compatible

10 cps to 2400 baud

No

C. FILEDEriz!ITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3, REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE mAINTtNANcE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. upDATE

c. DELETION

U. EDITING

2.

PREPROGRAMMED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS

3. OPTIONAL ORDERING Or

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY

1, rrER-sysTrr INTERACTION

a. mULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LIKE

PH RASING

C. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNONYMS

C. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

f. CHECKING TERN IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

fen

Yes

Nn en-line

capab.lity

Yen

No

No

No.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, cn user

:;peci!ied

NOYes

YO

S

Yes


A. "UST NA"L rump!:

7AY LTYIT FIELDS

C. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

C. POoLrAr NOT

f. NESTING OP BOOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

PURASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE EEARCH/Nr

a.


a. *HELP' COMMAND

b. oOCCIENTATIoN

ON -LINE

SEARCH STRATEGY

a. %ANDO"

L. SEQUENTIAL

c. INDEXED SEQC"mmiAL

F. REFORT l_MNERAT/oN

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

h. SELECT AM(r:G

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. -,EDIA ELExTRILITy


b. DISPLAY of GRAPHS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

e. ARITHMETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BAST,

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

YO5

Yes

Yes

YCS

Yes

Yon

No

!70

':CRC

Yes

Yes

NOYes (through

dictionary)


1. SYSTEM NAmr.

nR/c/NATon

TELSPHONE

2. sorTwARE AVAIUjAILITY

a. rnR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

h. 70R LEASE

AT WHAT COST

3. SERVICE A,AILAB/L/TY

a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

DATA rIASCS

c. TAKES CUSTITIER

DATA BASES


.1. FIRST INSTALLATION

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

5. H/STOPY or SERVICE


L. PRESENT USAGE

R. COMPUTER ENVTROT1ENT

1. '1A/N rR7vir.

2. (=RATING SYSTE74

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERN/NAL TYPES

5. TRANSMISSION PATES

F.7,..E-ENTRANT FOR

"uLTIrLn

CSER5

FLEXI!'IS

General r:lectric Co.

Information Services Bqsinenn

Division

7735 Old Georgetown Pd.

Bethesda,

20014

301-6;7-2120

Availat,le with time-h,lrini.,

ervice contract

None

Yes

1R71

Available on (7r national

netvork.

CE GOD series

cc rARK III time-nhArin7, system

BASIC, some assembler

TTY compatilac terminals

10, 15, 30 cps

c. riLE DEFINITION

1. DSFR DrrINABLr

7. vAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED

y'IL

DC

D. rILE NA.INTENANCE

1 ALLOWS oN-I.Tmr.

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE

c. DELETIO

d. EDITING


"ALIDATION crrci:r


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTONATIC OR

"ACEINE-ATDED

CONTENT INDEXING

F. ourrY

unrr-sYsTcr, INTERACTION

a. !TULTTPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. SNCL/SH-L/KE

runiks/nc.

c. FyrTun-roRcto

DIALOGUE


a. conTRoLtrn VIICAnVLAPY

h. FULL TEXT INvERSTON

C. STEMNING rr.R.nrT.Trp

0. sYnonv,s

e. DISPLAY or

BELATED TErr.


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yer,

Yes,

Ye,;

Yen

Yen (ejth own

code (PA:.:01

Ye.;

syntax)

Yes

;:one

3. srARcr SPECIFICATION

a. "UST twr FIELDS

h. !1AY LI1!IT FIELDS

c. nooLrAN

d. POoLEM:

orC. BOOLEAN r:o7

Yes

Ye,,

Yes

Yes

Yen, in

NESTING or BOOLEAN

FxprInslorr,

q. PFRASS AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

NC

h. NATURAL T:nclirr

No

i. DANCE szAncraNc

Yen

4. TUTORIAL rrATunr.s

a. "BELP" CO7S!AND

!ADCUmENTATION

oN-ITNE

None

S. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. ?ANDON

Nr.

srounNTIAL

Yes

C.INDEXED DEQUY'ITTL En

.5rporT crur7:ATTn!!

1. LANcrN7r TYPE'

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

I. SELECT AMONG

TONS

c. OY% coot,

2. !EDIA FLEXISIL/Ti

a. OFF-LINE RPINTI::c.

h. .YISPLAY or (773Apir

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

h. SEOUINCING

C. coUNTING

d. rPrTr-rTic


1. TEPeINAL

2. DATA

3. "FCC-ID

4. FIELD

Ycc

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yr!;

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yr75

No

No


I, SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE

2.

SOFTWARE. AVAILARILITY

a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. STARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA RASES

c. T1U

CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

5. HISTORY of 'SERVICE


b. PRESENT USAGE

D. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING sysTr

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

CI

TRW Systems Croup

7600 Colshire Dr.

"cLcan, Va. 22101

703-893-2SnO

No

Yet

Initial installation price

512,50n; monthly lease price

f;1.750 to commercial users,

Available to Government

agencies by contract.

'

Planned for Sept., 1973 under

Computer Sciences Corp. INEONET

time-sharing service.

January 1968

Department of Agriculture's

Forest Service, NASA's

anned

Space Plight Center

(2 versic is exist;

correspobding data on separate

lines)

'um 3(0 series

Univac 1100 series

OS. PCP/NPT or "VT, TS()

EXEC 8, EXEC 2

Assembler F

Univac Assembler

IBM I060, 22A0, 2741, 2780,

TTY, Uniscene. 1005

30 cps

120 cps

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DFFINABL.E

2. mApzARLE LENGTv TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE. MAINTENANCE

1. ALLour ON-LINE

a.CREATION

b. lTOA'rE

C. DELETION

d. ,:DATING


VALIDATION cEscrS

1. OPTIONAL ORDETINC OF

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

mACHINE-AIDEO

CONTENT INDEXING

E. CUERY

1. USER-SYSTI. INTERACTION

a. mHLT/PLH OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENCLISP-LIKE

PHRASING

c. svSTEm-FORCED

D/Aiocur

2. CONTENT SEARCP/NG


b. FULL TEXT INvERsIoN

c. STEMPING PERMITTED

d. srNONvms

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TER ms

f. crECRING TERM IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

b.L'9

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, clements

only

No Yes

Yes

No Yes

NoNo

Yen

No

No

3. SEAPCP SPECIFICATION

a. 'lUFT MANE FIELDS

b. 'AY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. ROOLEAN JR

e. BOOLEAN NoT

f. EESTINC or bOoLEAN

EXPRESS IONS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARcnING

h. :AT,',_L ENG/xsu

i. ,ukuGr sEARcv/Ns

9.


a. "HELP" CO'1AND

h. DOCUMENTATION

oN-LINE

S. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

5. SEQUENT IAL

c.

INDF.XEE, :31:1-;L:;7=AL

r. REPORT CEEERATION

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoNo

Yes

No

No Yes

NQ

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD ouTPNT

Yes

b. sELEcT AR,ONC

OPTIONS

c. ovN CODE

2. '/ED/A FLEXIBILITY

a. OFF-.LINE PRINTING


c. SPECIAL OUTPUn


a. SORTING

L. SEoUENCING

COUNTING

J. ARITNFETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. CECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

A. GrNERAL DESCRIPTION

C. FILE DEFINITION

3. SEARCH spEc/rTcATIoN

a. MUST NAE. FIELDS

Yes

1. SYSTEM NAME

GIPSY

1. USER DEFINABLE

Yes

b. MAY LIMIT rIELDS

Yes

ORIGINATOR

University of Oklahoma, Office

c. BOOLEAN AND

Yen

Of Research Admin.,

1808 Newton Drive,

Norman, Oklahoma,730f9


3. REPEATED FIELDS

Yes

No

d. DOOLEAN oR

c. BOOLEAN NOT

'. !MEETING OF BOOLEAN

Yes

Yes

TELEPHONE

405-321-6012

EXPRESSIONS

q. PHRASE AND DISTANCE

Yes

7. SOFTWARE. AVAILABILITY

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

SEARCHING

Yes

a. FOR PURCHASE.

Yes, federal government and

non-profit organizations.

1. ALLOWS ON -LINK

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING

Yen,

tOs

AT WHAT COST

$8,000 4 5550 per month during

a. CREATION

No

first year; includes training,

installation, and maintenanc.

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

NoNo


a. "HELP" COMMAND

Y, 5

b. F

OR

LE

ASE

Monthly charge reduced after

one year.

No

d. EDITING

2. PRE:YROGRJ=ED DATA

No

b. o0CuMENTATION

ON-LINE

Ye

AT WHAT COST


VALIDATION CHECKS

Yes, 13yntax

errors only

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

b. SEQUENTIAL

No

Yes

a. SEARCH SERVICE

Yes, through Univ. of Oklahoma


C. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL

No

Computing Center

ENTERED DATA

NO

AT WHAT COST

By arrangement

b. DATA RASES

U.S. Geological Survey and

4. AUTOMATIC OR


American Petroleum Institute

data bases, by special

MACHINE -AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

Yes, via a

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

C. TAKES CUSTOMER.

arrangement.

separate

program

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

Yes

DATA BASES

Yes

E. QUERY

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

Yes

Yes




Operational at University of

a. MULTIPLE' OPTIONS

2. MEDIA rLEXIBILITY

Oklahoma since July 1968

AT ANY POINT

Yes


Yes

h. SIGNIFICANT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

b. DISPLAY or GRAPHS

No

INSTALLATIONS

Department of Interior (USGS),

University of Missouri,

Oklahoma State Univ., U.S.

Dept. of Commerce (NOAH)

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE


Yes

no

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

Yes,

Yes

Yes



Yes

C. COUNTING

Yen


1973

h. FULL TF"T INVERSION

Yes

d. ARITHr'ETIC

Yes

PRESENT USAGE

Not available

C. STEMr/%7 PERMITTED

d. SYNONYMS

Yes

No

C. DISPLAY OF

SECURITY PROTECTION

8. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

RELATED TERMS

f. CHECKING TER' IN CON-

No

1. TERMINAL

No

1. MAIN FRAME

360 series, minimum of two

TROLLED VOCABULARY

No

2. DATA BASE

Yes

2311 disk drives, 90K bytes

3. RECORD

No

Storage

4. FIELD

No

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

OS/360

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

360 Assembler

4. TERmINAL TYPES

IBM 1050, 2741, and TTY

terminals


110 to 150 Baud

6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

No

microfilm


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT cosy.


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT NEAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

/MARS

Interactive Sciences Corp.

60 Brooks Or.

Braintree, Mass. 02184

617-848-2660

No

Yes, on perpetual license

$5k

Yes

Surcharge for use over normal

time-sharing cost

($3.75/connez hour

$.0025fresource unit)

Yes

4. HISTORY Or SOFTWARE

NA


b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



4th quarter, 1972

b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES

Data net available

DECSystem 10

TSM

FORTRAN

MACRO -10

ASCII, IBM Correspondence code

teruinals


10, 15, 30 cps

6. PZ-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

Yes

C. TILE DEFINITION

USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE, MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CUECXS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACRINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. "uLTIRLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENCLISII -LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE





d.

e.

f.


a. MUET NAME FIELDS

Yes

b. NAY LIMIT FIELDS

C. BOOLEAN AND

Yes, up to 2,000

d. BOOLEAN OR

characters long

e. BOOLEAN.NOT

No

f. NESTING OP POGLEAN

EXPRESSIONS


SEARCHING

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Partial; some

modules are

dialogue driven

NoNo Yee

(".hararter

string search)

SN7X117S

No

orrTLAy 0,

7FLAM) TENS

No

CrrcnrC

Crvr-

TonLLr;',

()CLArY

No

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING


a. -UELP* coprIAND

b. DOCUMENTATION.

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a- nANDOM

b. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AmoNG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. 'tEDIA FLEXIBILITY



c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. AR/T1NETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No No

Yes, by

character

string

search

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoNo

Yes

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

NO


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA 71ASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

IMS of Office of Emergency

Preparedness

Executive Office of the

President

Office of Emergency

Preparedness

Washington, D.C. 20504

202-395-4831

Yes

Free for government users

NANA

NA

The random access version was

operational since 1971

None

NA

UNIVAC 1108

EXEC S

VULCAN

(a string processing

language) plus assembly

language plus FORTRAN interface

Any TTY and CRT terminals in

use on the 1108

10,15,30 cps

Yes, due to property of VULCAN

C. FILL DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

Yes

2. VAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT

Yes

3. REPEATED FIELDS

No

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

C. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE -AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes,

command-like

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

V4. HISTORY OF SOFTWARE


b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

IMS/360 Version 2 with SOF

(Information kianagement System

with Interactive Query Facility)

IBM

1133 westchester Ave.

White Plains, N.Y. 10604

LoCal Representative

NO

Yes

5550/mo.-I.S/360 V2 (basic

system)

+:562S/m0.-DatA Comm. Feature

+5300/mo.-I0E

NA

Nov. 1972

Not available


NA


b. PRESENT USAGE

B. COMPUTER ENvIROUmENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT roR

MULTIPLE USERS

/Dm 360, 370

OS/PT, rvT, vs 1, VS 2

Assembler

TRm 3270, 2260, 2265, 2740,

1050

134.5, 600, 1200, 2000, 2409,

4800, 7290 bps

Partial (will support multiple

Users)

C. PILE DEFINITION-

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS

a, CREATION

b. urnATr

C. DELETION

d. EDITING

2, PREPROGRAMITD DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

mACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

P. QUERY

1. USER-SYSTEu INTERACTION

a. !!uLTIrLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRAsINC

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE



b, FULL TEXT It vrRSION


d. SYNONYUS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

No

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yen

No

Yen (using

"null" words)

No

None


a.MIST NA!.5 : FIELDS

b. "AY LimIT =Los

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

C. BOOLEAN NOT

NESTING Or BooLEAN

CXPRE,SSION::


rrA7cnINc

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING

TUTOPIAL FEATURES

a. "HELP" Cel!".MAN!:

b. D

OC

LP.r.NTAT /ON

OH -LINE

SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

h. SEQUENTIAL


S. T,TPORT ortzrywrIfy:

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

h. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. EDIA FLEXIBILITY

a. ,0-F-LINE PRINTING

b. DISPLAY Op GRARBS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

h, SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. TEPJUNAL

2. DATA BAST:

3. 7.:CORD

4. FIELD

Yes

YeS

Yen

fns

Yes

Ye5

NOHO

Yes

None

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoNo

Yes

Yes, with CPT

Eo

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NONo

A. GENERAL GESCRIPTION

1. sYsTrrt NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT Cor,T

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



h. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS


a, SERVICE INITIATION

b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TrRmINAL TYPES


6. 7E-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

srrRry RAND Corp.

UNIVAC Div.

2121 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.


202-338-9500

Available at no charge

UNIVAC 1108 users

NA 1969-1970

to

About 45, incl. HUD, NASA,

SGA, other Government agencies.

NA

UNIVAC 1108

EXEC 8

COBOL, Assembler

TTY-compatible

10-30 cps

Yes

C. FILE DErtN/TIoN

1. USER DrrrNABLr

2. vAR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT

3. PEPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON -LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE - FIELD

CONTEN7 INDEXING

F. QUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE




c. sTrmmxtm PERMITTED

(1. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

No Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

3. SEARCb SPECIFICATION

a. "VET NAM: rirLDs

h. !AY LIMIT riELDs

C.,DooLrAN AND

d. BOOLEAN oR

e. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NEST/NC or BOOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS


SEARCHING

h.

ENGLISH

t. RANGE SEARCP/NC

4. TUTORIAL FrATUvYS

a. 'HELP' COemAND

b. f>ocumcNTATIoN

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. Tuvmorl

h. SEQUENTIAL


r, REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

h. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE.

2. mEDIA FLEXIBILITY

a. OFF -LInn PRINTING


c. SPECIAL OCTPUTE


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COVETING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3, 'RECORD

4. FIELD

Yen

Yes

Yen

Yen

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

None

No

NoYes

Yes

NoYes

Yet

No

No

'Yes

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yen

No

No

A. GENERAL DEsCRri,:ioN

1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

h. DATA EASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

E. R. Squibb & Sons, state cf

Ohio, LEAA, EPSO

INQUIRE

Infodata Systems, Inc.

1901 N. Fort Myer Dr.

Arlington, Ma. 22209

703-524-6700

Yes

:,38,S00

Yes

;.1,325/mn.

NA

July, 1969



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. .'OURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

::A

IDT! 3GO,

OS

PL/1

TTY, ID'! 2741,

or compatible

370, mod 4G & up

As supplied by particular

environment

No

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. NsER DEFINAELE

2. VAR/A.11LE LENCTP TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

0. FILE AINTENANCE

I. 1LLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROCRAMED DATA

VALIDATION CHECK,'

3. OPTIONAL OPMERINC OF

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OP

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

F. OUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENCL/SH-LINE

plIRAEINc-

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE

2. CONTENT SEARCH/NC.

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY

b.

c.d, e.

f.

FULL TENT INVERSION

STMMING PER/TTFD

SyNoNyr1S

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yen

Yen

Yen

Updates indices,

new records

appended

No

Yes

Yen

Opt

iona

l

Yes, via AVOCON,

an associated

thenauru,,,

handling package

Yes

Yes

with AVOCON

with AVOcoN-

Yes


a. 'NET NA!E FIELDS

h."AY LPIT FIELDS

C. BOOLEAN AND

d. sooLEAN op

e. BOOLEAN NOT

f. ::LSTING OF NOOLEAN

FYPPESnIONS

q. PHRAEE AND DIETANCE

SEARCHING

NATURAL EEGLIrE

i.

EZARCHINC

4. TNTOPIAL FEATURES

AHELP" COMMND

L)oCUMENTATION

5. SEAPCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

b. SCONENTIAL

C. 7NDEXED SEOUENTIAL

r. ErpoET GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. ETANDAPM OUTPUT

t. `ELECT A"ONC

OPTIONS

c.

O':77 CODE


a. OFF -LINE P'uNTINr:

h. :ASPLAy OF GRAPH_'

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

h. SroutEX/NO

c. COUNTING

d.ARITIPCTIC


1. TET1INAL

2. DATA BASE

3.P_Econo

4. FIELD

NO

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

NeCo

YeS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, if

requested

Yes, if

requested

A_ GENERAL DESCRIPTION

1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

h. FOR LEASE.

AT WHAT COST

3. SERVICE. AVAILABILITY

a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA OASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

INSYTE (Information Svstens

Technology)

Tsponse Technology, Inc

4064 S W Donovar,

Seattle, Washington 98136

206-937-7845

Yes

$27.000

Yes

$12,Snn

5425 month

May be available on

time-sharing services

1970

Remote Computing COrp., Univ.

of Washington

Burroughs B-5500

Burroughs Time-sharing

COBOL

TTY compatible

10, 15, 3P cps

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. "AR/ABLE LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS oN-LINI

a. CPFATION

h. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d, EDITING

2.

PREPROGRAMMED DATA

mALIDATION CRECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

r.

QUERY


a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE




c. STEMMING PER"ITTED

d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Nn

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

NO

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No


a.

L.c.

d. g h i.

UL'GT NAME FIELDS

MAY LIMIT FIELDS

DooLFAN AND

BOOLEAN OP

BOOLEAN NOT

NESTING OF BOOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

NATURAL ENGLISH

RANGE SEARCHING


a. "HELP' COMMAND

DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

h. SEQUENTIAL

C. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL.

r. REPORT cFNERATIOT1

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

N. :;ELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

C. OWN CODE

2.

MEDIA FLEX/r/LITy


h. DISPLAY OF GRAPES

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

N. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC

Cl. SECURITY PROTECTION

1. TERMIrAL

DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yon

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

YPS

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

NoNo

YeF

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA RASES

4. HISTORY or SOFTWARE.


b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE

A. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTE!"

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

LrAnrRmART

Center for Information Science

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015

215-91-700S, XF31

By arrangement

Yes

$55.00 per connect hour (545.00

for government users)

Chemical Abstracts, Engineering

Index, Civil Engineering, and

Tall Buildings (locally

defined)

Yes (pp arranp,e_nt)

Only implemented at Lehigh

March, 1971

Currertly serving 12

interdisciplinary research

Centers at Lehigh, seven local

colleges, Federal agencies, and

industrial Customers.

CDC (400

'CORE 3.3, INTERCO" 3.0

Primarily FORTRAN

TTY and CRT

110, 300, 1200, 2400 baud

No

C. FILE DEFINITION

I. vsFr 6EFINAHLE

2. ,AnrAFILT: LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE .AINTENANCE

1. ALLoW7 0E-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPPOCRN-VtED HATA

VALIDATION CUECEF

3. OPTIONAL ORDERING Or

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OP

'1ACKINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

C. QUERY

1. 1,srp-sYsTr J.NTrRAcTroN

a. t.uLTIFLr OPTIONS

AT ANY.POINT

h. ENGLISH -LIKE

PHRASING

c. sYsTsm-FORCED

DIALOGUE



h. Feu TEXT INVERSION

c.

TERMITTED

d. syrioNYmn,

C. DISPLAY Or

RELATED TERMS

f. CHECEING TERM IN CT:-

TRILLED VOCABULARY

Yes, with

Yes

Yes

Nono

NoNO

Yes

Yes, merge records

into

but

1-eldr: 1T:to reccrs

Yes, a separate

eXi5ts

Yes

YES

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NA.


a.

NAM FInun

!). MAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN (IR

C. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NESTING or nooLrAN

:7yynmsszons

g. PHRASE ANo DISTANCE

ESA! CEINC

h. NATURAL r..-NcLrF.R

RANCE SEARCHING

4. Tt2TerRIAL rrA71.7nr:s

a.

"IG31.17" CO'TAND

DoCtR!ENTATION

S. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDGe

b. Fronr!rrIAL

c, morxrL sLournTIAL

P. 7rnoRT GC :: RATION

1. LArxxAcr TYPE.

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b, CFLCCT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. oVN CODE

2. ".CDIA FLEXIBILITY

a. OFF - LINE PRINTING

h. DISPLAY CF GRA;pm-,

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. AnTrmFTIc

C. sr:curl-Tv PROTECTION

1. TT:PR/NAL

2. DATA nAsr

3. 7u:copo

4. FIELD

NoNo

NoNo

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

no

Yes

no

No

NO

Yes

Yes

No

Yen

Yet

Yet

Yes


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

b. c.

AT WHAT COST

DATA BASES

TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

MARK IV (with on-line special

feature)

INFORMATICS, Inc.

MA di IV Systems Cc.

21550 Vanowen St.

Canoga Park, CA

91003

(217) 887-9121

Yes

$37,000 + $10,000 for On-line

feature

Yes

Many plans, including

installment purchase

Yes, through commercial time-

sharing companies.

Machine utilization costs plus

surcharge.

N/A

Yes

Evolved from "ARE I. II, III

1968

U.S. House of Representatives,

NEW, Federal Reserve Board, GM,

EXXON, Eastern Airlines



1972

b. PRESENT USAGE

Not available


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. REENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

IBM 360

OS/360 with TSO (for On-line

feature), or with VP/CSS on

360/67; OS/VSI

Assembler

Any standard device

Any standard rate

No

C. FILE nrETDITrou

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. PILE rA/NTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON -LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

C. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROCFate*ED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. PITHY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY or

RELATED TERMS

f, CHECKING TERM IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yee

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yen (automatic

with appropriate

file structure)

No

EDIT IV is only

interactive part

of system; query

is remote batch

or time-shared

execution with

on-line

preparation

Yes

No

No, prompting

as appropriate

None, but Text

Processing

Special Feature

can be used to

program text

search procedures

3. nEAREE FPECIF/CAT/ON

a. euFT NarT FIELDS

b. "AY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BooLEA::

d. BooLEAN on

0. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NESTING Of BOOLEAN

ExrnEnsloNs


SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING

4. TUTOR/AL rEATUPTS

a. "HELP* coMeAND

b. nocumENTATIoN

oN-LINE

SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

b. SEQUENTIAL


REPORT CENERATIoN

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

C. O

M:CODE

2. rDTA FLEXIBILITY

a, OFF -LINE PRINTING

b. DISPLAY Or CRAPRF

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEOUENC/NG

c. COUNTING

d.

AR

IT1P

'ET

/C


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA RASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Ye

Ycs

?es

Yes

No

NoYes

Yes

Yes

( by

As file

aefined

'es (by

eod.)

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

YO

S

Yes

No, but

ter

may

prrgrari

thet.

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

MARS III

CONTROL DATA Corp.

5272 River Rd.


301-652-2268

NO

Yes

5500 initial + $300/mo. royalty

NA

April, 1970

U.S. Coast Guard, New York

Dept. of Education, Hughes

Aircraft Corp.

NA

CDC 3300, 3500

MASTER

COMPASS (90%), American National

Standards Institute COBOL (10%)

CRT, TTY

Up to 4800 baud

No

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

C. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGRAMED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY

1. U96-SYSTEM INTERACTION

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

No, but

tiEld

length is

defined by

user

Yes

No on -line

maintenanc

Yes

Yes,

automatic

NO

Query inpu

executed

in batch

None


a. MUST NAKE FIELDS

h. "AY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT


ExpREssxoNs

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING

9.


a. `HELP" COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

S. SEARCH STRATEGY --

a. n_ANDOm

b. SEQUENTIAL

c. INDEXED SENTENTIAL


1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. mED/A FLEXIBILITY



C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

C. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes (ANCNCT)

Yes, one level

NoNo

Yes

Norte

NoNo

Yes

Yes

NoYes

Yes

NoNo

Yes

NO

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST

MARS VI

Control Data Corp.

5272 River Rd.


301-652-2268

So, but perpetual

license

available for $18K

Yes

$600/mo. (commercial royalty)


NA

a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

late 1969

About 10 incl.

NSRDC, Univ. of Texas, Michigan

State Univ.

NA CDC CYBER/70, 6000 series

SCOPE 3, INTERCOM 4

FORTRAN, COMPASS

TTY 33, 35; CRT

10-30 cps, 100 cps, 2400baud

No

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY

1.eslm-SYSTEM INTERACTION

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

ENGLISH -LIKE

PHRASING

SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE

b. C.



b. rum. TEXT INVERSION


d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

f. CHECHING TERM IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatic

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

NoYes

Yes

Yes

No


a. ,ILTST NAME FIELDS

h. NAY LIMIT FIELDS

C. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS


SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING


a. *HELP' COMMAND

b. DOCIRTNTAT/ON

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

b. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE




c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NO

No

Yes

None

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

None

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAmE

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

MASTER CONTROL (Version 3)

Information Research Group

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

University of California

P.O. Box 808

Livermore, California 94550

415-447-1100, X3132

Information available on

request

No

Yes

Information available on

request

44 major data bases, including

Nuclear Science Abstracts, SPIN,

Chemical Titles, and

Engineering Index

Yes, if programmatically

related to Lawrence Livermore

Laboratory

December, 1968:

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

December, 1968

1,400 searches per month

CDC-6600/7600

FROST/FLOE

LRLTRAN

TTY and CRT

4800 baud (110 baud with

acoustic couplers)

No, net necessary

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

0. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. Ar.LOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY

I. USER- SYSTEM INTERACTION

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE





d.e.

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Optional

Yes

Yes

No

Optional

Yes

yes, also

arbitrary

string

matching

Yes

Yes, if

provided

by user

Optional

3. SEARCH .SPECIFICATION

a. MUST NAME FIELDS

h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

c. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

q. h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING


a. 'HELP' COMMAND

b. DoCumENTAT/oN

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

h. SEQUENTIAL


REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

h. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE


a. orr-LINE PRINTING

h. DISPLAY OF CRAPES

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. AR/THMITIC

C. SECURITY PROTECT/ON

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Open length

pnrases;

nc, distance

searching

No Yes

Some prompting,

error correction

No

Yes

Yes, optional

Yes, optional

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

microfiche. 16

and a5 mm film

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

A. GENERAL DESCRIPTI")N

1. sYsTr NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE

m/CROTEXT

"ITRE Corp.

Ledford, Mass. n1735

Contact: Henry A. Day rd

1.17-271-7517


A. FOR PURCHASE

Yes

AT ?MAT COST

Ly arrangement with mITRE Corp.

b. FOR LEAsr

AT MAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

h. DATA BASES

C. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA OASES

Yes

By arrangement

None

Yes


a. FIRST INSTALLATION 1,172

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS


a. srwxcE INITIATION

h. PRzsENT USAGE

B. COMPUTER ENVIRON"ENT

1. MAIN FRAME

OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TEE ICAL TYPES

5. TRANSmISSION RATES

iron In (Teletype) to 800,000

(rwl 3270 displays) cps

with MITRE Corp.

None, other than "ITRE

II3

3$15/375 (ICR0TE= requires

700E bytes of core)

OS/"VT with TFO

PL/I

Any terminals supported Ly TSO

c. RE-ENTMNT FOP

r'ULTIPLE USERS

No-relies on TEO to support

multiple users

C.

J=.1:!ITio;;

1. uscR DEFINABLE

vARIAPLE L "NC.TL TEXT

1. rEPEATED FIELDS

D. rILE "AINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDAor.

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. ppErroGRArvIED DATA

"ALIDATION CHECKS

3. 'OPTIONAL ORDERING Or

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOmATIC OR

mACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLIsp-LIEE

PHRASING

c. sysTr*.-roncED

DIALOGUE




c. STEmING PERmITTED

e.

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TnouLro VOCABULARY

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

Ycn

Yes

No

NoYes

Yes, left,

right, or

both

Yes (user

definable)

N0 .


a. "UST NAE =IL's

b. MAY LIIT P/ELDs

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. poorrAn op

e. BOOLEAN NOT

NESTING or BOOLLAN

EXPRESSIONS


SEARCU/NO

h. NATURAL ENGLIsn

i. RANCE SEARCHING

4. TUTORIAL rrApunrr

a. 'YELP' COmYAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

S. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. NANNY'

h.

NlTIAL

C. mprxrD SEQUENTIAL


1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OLTPUT

h. SELECT AmoNG

OPTIONS

C. OWE CODE

,. 91:D/A FLEXIBILITY


h. DISPLAY OF GRAPES

C. sprcIAB OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

C. COUNTING

d. AR/TmrTIC


1. TER"INAL

.. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

NoYes, nay

limit to

pre-establi5%,/

text. F.egmel:!,

Elver

1,nn ol

'-x

Yes

Yes

Ne

Yes

Yes

Ne

No

Ne

Yes

NO

Yes

!In

Yen

10Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

Provided by TSO

Yes

No

No


I. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b.

c.

DATA BASES

TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES


a. F'RST INSTALLATION

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

MINIDATA (for small data Bases)

United Computing Systems

3130 Broadway

Kansas City, Mo. 64106

816-753-4500

Yes (limited license)

Approx. 510,000

Yes

Approx. $400-$500/mo.

Yes

317.50 (10 cps), $21.00 on

Cps) /connect hour

None

Yes

Aug., 1971

Only VCS


a. SERVICE INITIATION Aug., 1971

b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


More than 500 users

CDC 6000 series

MAX (in-house) or KRONOS (CDC)

FORTRAN, COMPASS

All low speed terminals; CDC

200 USER terminal compatible

10-30 cps

6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


A3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE

C. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE -AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

S. (QUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

No Yes

Yes

,Limited


None




d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

f. CUECRING TER" /N CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY


a. "UST NAME FIELDS

h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS


SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING


a. 'HELP' COMMAND

h. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

S. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

b. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b, SELECT AMONG

=ions

c. OWN CODE




c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. .rcoRD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoNo

Yes,

None

No Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoNo

--*


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA RASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

"IRADS

Data Center Division

NASA

Marshall Space Plight Center,

Alabama 35812

205-453-1205 (technical)

205-453-4181 (administrative)

Available through COSMIC

-

(Computer Software Management

and Information Center at the

University of Georgia)

Not generally available

late 1471

Federal Communication

Commission, University

Alabama, Huntsville

NA

UNIVAC 1108

EXEC 8

80% COBOL, 19% FORTRAN,

Assembler

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. VARIABLE LENGTH TENT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. r/LE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOUS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


"ALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

of

CONTENT INDEXING

UNISCOPF CRT, DCT 500 hard

copy, nCT 2000, TTY, UNIVAC

9300, UNIVAC 1004

Device dependent

No

F. QUERY

1. u5Er-sYsTE!! INTERACTION

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. uNcuxsit-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-roRcEn

DIALOGUE

Yes

yes, abstract

length only

Yes

'Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, for

records in

file but not

fields within

record

No

No

Yes

Yes


a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Open-ended

b. FULL TEXT INVERSION_

No


Yes, any word

11- portion of

award

d. SYNONYMS

Yes

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

No


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

3. sEARcr SPECIEICATION

a. !.T.7sT NAME =Los

b. MAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

c. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS

g. I,ERASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING


a. "HELP* COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

mN-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. PANDO"

b. SEQUENTIAL

c. INDEXED '::EQUZNTIAL

P. REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c.

CODE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yen

Yes, tc,

level

f±

No

InYes

None

Yes (inverted

list)

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

2. mED/A rLEyinILvry


Yes

h. DISPLAY OF GPAPEC

Yes

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS

.Yes, magnetic

tape


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITPmETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA nAsr

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yen

A. CrmrAL DESCRIPTION

1. sYrTr".NA!'r

nrInINAT(IR

7111,17ProNF

2. 5orvAar AVAILARTL/TY

a. rm puncrAFr

AT WVAT C'VT

b. FOR LEAST',

AT %41AT COLT

"eta Laneumer Products Inc.

L 14 Street Apt

Nov York, Ilea' York, lhn,'^

71.7-417-4^74

Contact: coerce POttn

Yen

Neertim1le

Yen

Negotiable

3. srPrict PrAILADILITY

Software service has been

available on Tyrnhare

n. SrAPCP SEPVICr

AT !'VAT COrT

b. DATA BAnrs

c. TurS CvSTovE0

DATA PASTS

4. RISToRY or SOFfiMAPE

a. rr7sT INSTALLATION

b.sIGN/FIcNIT

nrTALLATInNs

c. HIrTertY (IF srinricr

4. Srrr'-tCi:

b. PPrsENT rSArr

B. co,TuTEn EN,'Ipo!vrNT

1. "AIN Pivq,

2, ormATrIc rYrTr,.

3. DOliRCE LANCUAOE

TMR"INAL TYPIT

5. TRATS!tisSinN

RA

TE

S

F.

'IX -ENTTZANT rop

,ULTIPLE usrPs

Installed briefly at Jepartment

of Comrerce. %o current

instralationn.

Xerox corp.

NA

ms-94n

ran Tine - sharing System:

ART'AF - asserbly language for

94^

Any TTY comratitle terrinal

1M,

3n cps

Yen

L. ErLI

1. t:-I,

onrvw,s1.:-

L:'N67,T TLIr

1.

'I PEATY:: ir17..Dr

rri,L 'A!%7INANCE

1. ALL: ;US

a. cprAT/oN

:TOAD

c. ,,rT.E722/%1

MITINC

PrEPPoO7A '

DATA

"ALIDATToN CITCrr:

3, nPTImNTI. m7Dr.MI;D" OF

DATA

LUToATIC OE

,\CET.D7-?1-DrD

cTnw )71DE:!TNr

.murr":

1. 7.

unrn..sYsTr*, 1:mAcTro::

a. 'u,T.Trrl.r orTIoNs

AT/ rOINT

1, 17:OLIFM-LTKE

PPRASINC

c. SYSTr-ropCro

D/ALor:vr:

&osTET srApoprIn

co!:T,or1171

rscApuLART

.

4.

P.

r11.1.

PLnyITTEn

syroNyste

1,2rrLAY mr

7,r1A7p TE0"F

'Zr'

f. CirrrY7mr TED'I r% CON-

T'q,OL1.17D "OCAP"LARY

""YtI

VO

Yen

Yen

Yen

Yen

Yen

Yen

Yes

:47

Dictionary used

to understand

natural language

,

;:n l to

rt

r.er

P:'cT7(7,1-T,-)17

3tur.11 lamruann

'!rv'

rrrin.

nooi,rAn

!:^7

mr rmm7jr,

Ye4;

1,1:!1A1-

DTsw,:lcr

!,17n.pcpr;r.

Ye."

Yen

Yen

flUT(1,7L rEP=EF

A. "!'F'IT" ro""r,NU

.v7r1-1!717,TIo-:

ry.-LI1E

fy,P-rWM r77,T;ry

n, ';ANDo"

17,t:ITIAL


,71:::1-7,A71n71

1. LyirrA17r verr

a. rTI,..tunPn nuTrr77

1. 17.17LrcT A'7Y:r

rr7ToNE

c,

coDr

2. -rDIA FLrx/r1-1.TT.:

A. nrr-lx.Ir P,r.711:1r

).

or

e, FMCIt.L. nc:Tpr7r

6 .1,-;e1;%.1, cNrNTi71.1-7Ivr

4, r,InTr:c

1. !-4,:c1v7.:ci

c. COU%T.1::r

FECEeITY rh,^T!CTIoN

I. 7177"::47.1.

OtTr.

1. 7J:M7I)

ri7Lo

not 17

Vt''

Ye7

urine

coordinate

indexing

No No

Ynn

Yen

7c

Yes

ve,

Yer

Ycr

Yen

Nn


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

h. DATA BASES

C. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES


aFIRST INSTALLATION

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

NASIS

Computing Services Division

NASA, Lewis Research Center

Cleveland, Ohio 44135

216-433-4000, X795

Yes

Available to government

agencies

No

No

NA

No

September 1970

Carnegie Mellon University

NA

IBM 360 or 370

OS/MVT

Mostly PL/1, some Assembler

IBM 2741/1050 and TTY

compatible devices

110, 150, 300 or 1200 baud

Yes

C. rILE orrINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. rILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE -AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. `MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIRE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM - FORCED

DIALOGUE

Yet-.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, separate

utility packge

Yes

Yes

No


a. CM/TROLL= VOCABULARY Yes


Yes

c. STEMmING PERMITTED

Yes

d. SYNONYMS

No

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

Yes


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes


a. MUST NAM: FIELDS

b. mAY LIMIT FIELD:-;

c. BOOLFAU AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. -BOOLEAN NOT

f. NESTING OF BOoLJNd;

EXPPESSIONS

"'ERASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING

g.

4. TUTOSIAL REATURES

a. "HELP* COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATI:CY

a. RANDOM

b. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. *1EDIA FLEXIBILITY


b. DISPLAY Or GRAPHS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b.SEQUENCING

C. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Not on-line

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoYes

Yes

Yes


1. SYSTEM,NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a, FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH'SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

5. HISTORY OF

a. SERVICE

b. PRESENT

SERVICE

INITIATION

USAGE

8. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


-6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

THE NEW YORK TIMES INFORMATION

BANK

Information Services Division

The New York Times

229 West 43rd St.

New York, N.Y. 10036

212-556-1031

No

Planned for future.

Yes

5675 per month minimum,

exclusive of equipment.

Abstracts of New York Times

articles (1970 to present) plus

selected abstracts from other

sources

Not at present

NA

Late 1972

64 in-house terminals. Around

15 outside subscribers,

including Department of State,

Library of Congress, and

University of Pittsburgh

IBM 370/145

DOS

PL/1, IBM 370 JAL, CO3OL

Incoterm SPD-10/20 CRT terminal

for outside subscribers

2000 or 2400 bps

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1, ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

C. DELETION

d. EDITING

2, PREPROGRAMMED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE



b. c.

d.e. f.

FULL TEXT INVERSION

STEMMING PERMITTED

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

No

Yes

Yes. for index

terns and certain

bibliographic

elements

Yes, to establish

temporary file;

permanent file

established via

later batch run

Yes, in

temporary file

Yes, in

temporary file

Yes

No, with certain

exceptions

Not relevant

to users

No

Yes

Yes

Yes, except

when entering

search terms

Yes, open-ended

vocabulary now

contains about

200,000 terms

NOYes

Yes

Yes

Yes


a. EAST NAME FIELDS

h, "AY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT

P. NESTING OF BOOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

e. PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING


a. 'HELP* COMMAND

h. DOCUMENTATION

nN -LINE

5. SEAECH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

t. SEQUENTIAL

C. INDEXED SEOEENT/AL


1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b, SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

C. OWN CODE

2. "EDIA FLEXIBILITY



c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

C. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC

G. SECURITY PROTECT/G)

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA EASE

3. rcorD

4. FIELD

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

NONoYes, for

date of

publication

Not needed

pecause of

tutorial

sequence

Yes, with

abbreviation

optional

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes,

microfilm,

microfiche

Yes, by date

Yes

Yes

No

Yen

Yes

No

No

P. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b.c.

DATA BASES

TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS


a. SE'n'ICE INITIATION

b. PRESENT USAGE

B. COMPUTER EN"IRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAP53

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES

5. 'TRANS! ISSION RATES

6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

OLIVER

On-Line Systems, Inc.

115 Evergreen Heights Dr.

Pittsburgh, Fa. 15229

412-931-7Ce4

By arrangement

Yes

;.10.0n/Connect hour

$0.05/computer processing

unit

$1.50/psu/mo.

Standard c Poor's Daily Report

Yes

NA

1970

About 5n companies, 10-20 user,

each

DECSystem In

TOPS -10 monitor (variant)

MACRO-10 (arsembler)

TTY-compatible, 2741 - compatible

10-12n cps

Yes

c. rxtc orrt5aTrou

1. urrn orr:aAnix


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. PILE mA/NTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING.

2. PREPROCRAmMED DATA

VALIDATION cvrcrr


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT nonxINc

E. PURR?


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENCLISN-LIKE,

PNRAS/NC

c. nrsTr-roRcro

orALorwr

Yen

Yen

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

New records are

appended or else

go into holes

left by deletions

No Yes

Yes

2. CONTENT SEARCPInG

a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY No

b. FULL

INVERSION

No


Yes; also embedded

String searching

d. SYNONYMS

Yes

e. DISPLAY or

RELATED TERMS

No

f. curcximl TERM IN CON-

TRoLxrD VOCABULARY

NA

'A. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASS

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA RASES



b. S/CNIFICNT

INSTALLATIONS

5. HISTORY OF SUNICE


b. P,ESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TEIVIINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

ORBIT III

System Development Corp.

2500 Colorado Ave.

Santa "onica, Calif. 90406

213-393-9411

Yes

$47,500

Yes

$950 per month plus s2,000

startup charges

Yes

$22.00 to $35.00 per `our.

ERIC, CA Condensates, and CAIN

MEDLINE available to a

restricted customer set.

Yes

1970

National Library of medicine.

SDC, CarOlinska Institute of

Stockholm, Dept. State, SUNY

(Syracuse)

1972

Over 50 organizations

IBM Series 360, 370

ospIFT, OS/YVT, VS/2

PL/1

TTY, IBM 7741, and others

10, 15, 30 ws

Yes

c. r/LF DEFINITION

1. urER DNFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE

c. DELE7/oN

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGRIMED DATA

vALIDAT/ON CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOATIC OR

MACEINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. OUFRY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LIKE

PNRAS/NG

c. SysTml-FORCED

DIALOGUE



b.C.

d.

Futi. TEXT INVERSION

STEMMING rETTITTED

SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

Yos, vith

acsistance

Yes

Yes

En

Yet.

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes, via an

optionai

separate

package

Yes

Yes

Yes, if user

supplied

NoYes

Yes, if

established

at file

el-cation

Yes, with

special

programming

f. CHECKING GERM IN CON'..

Yes, if user

TRCLLEL VOCABULARY

supplied

3. SEARCH spEcIFICATIon

A. "UST NAME FIELDS

h, MAY LIMIT rinnr

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OP

e. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ZEGL/SE

i- RANGE SEARCHING

9-

4. TUTORIAL ErATUREr

a. 'HELP" COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RNEDOm

b. SEQUENTIAL

c. INDEXED SMUT:71AL

F. REPOPT Gr.NrrATIGN

1.ut,xuAcr TYPr

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

h. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. 'TDIA FLEXIBILITY


h. U/SPLAY OF GRAPHS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS

3. SPECIAL CAPPLIL/T/ES

e. SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


En

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

NoYes, for one

category

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

NO

Yes

No

No

NoYes

Yes, for numher

of hits

No

1. TERMINAL

::o

7. DATA RASE

Yes

3. RECORD

Yes, using

security at

print level

4. r:ELD

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WRAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. srARcr

SER

VIC

E:

AT MITT COST

b. DATA nArm:

C. TAKES cusTovcR

DATA RASES

4. DISTOPY Or SOFTWARE


b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS


a. srnvicr INITIATION

b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

Z. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

.MULTIPLE USERS

PIRETS (Pittsburgh Information

RETrieval System)

Knowledge Availability Systems

Center

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213

Contacts: Mr. Edmond Howie,

Prof. Dale Isner (system

designer)

412-24-5211

A copy of the program and of

the documentation are aVailable

for reproduction costs.

earen services on approximately

10 data Lases are available.

or prices, contact Associate

11reeter of KASC.

Only implemented at Pittsburgh

Aug., 1572

U. of Pitt. campus

ever 155

outside clients

do.

PDPIO

TSM

ACRD -10

ASR-33 TTY Compatible

10-30 cps.

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. vARIABLE LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE.

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGRA!nTD DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OF.

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

F. QUERY

1. USER-sysTr2! INTERACTION

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-I./FM

PHRASING

C. sYs=-FORCED

DIALOGUE

2. CONTENT STARCHING



c. sTrr,r1/NI PERMITTED

d. SYNONYDS

e. DISPLAY Cr

RELATED =Ms

No

f. cRrcRxwo TERM IN CON-

TROLLrO VOCABULARY

DoYes

Yc5

Yes

Yes, bv cotversion

(card er :ext)

Inp,

Yes, source file.

Yes, source file

Yes, source file

Yes

Do

No (full text

inversion for

search on words

and phrases)

Yes, via system

controlled dialogue

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes (truncation)

No

3. SEARCH fT:=C/r/CATto

A. ':UST DANE FIELDS

b.

'AY LIMIT FIELD!'

c. PROLNAN END

a. BooLrAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT

f. ::EFTING OF BoOLtN

;:xp.RrssloNs

PHRASE

DI:CTANCT:

stARCPING

h. NATURAL .7:NcL:sr

i. RANGE SEARCHING

4, TUTORIAL rrATIJR::s

a. *rr.Lr" cor-A:lo

t. DOCUMENT/4;T7 0:_

nu-L

IDS

!:n

Yes

Yes

Ye:

Yen

Yes

(ihrases,

No

Ne

No

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. %ANDO!'

No

b.FrOUtNTIAL

Yes


No

I. REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT ANONG

oPT/ONF

c. OWN COLE

2. NEDIA FLEXIBILITY


h.DISPLAY oF GRAPIJE

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC

SECURITY PROTECTION

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA EASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

No

No

No

NoYes

No

Yes

Yes

No

No


I. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE

QUERY UPDATE (version 1)

Control Data Corp.

5272 River Rd.


301-652-226R


a. ?OR PURCHASE

No

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

Yes

AT WHAT COST

$100 /mo. royalty


NA

a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

4. RIS'lRY OF SOFTWARE

a. 1.IRST INSTALLATION

h. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


li MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

late 1972

No extensive use yet

NA

CDC cypER/70, 6000 series

SCOPE 3, INTERCOM 3

SYMPL

TTY 33. 35; CRT

10-30 cps, 100 cps, 2400 baud

No

C. FILE. DEFINITION

I. DEER DEFINABLE

:AP1AL7

D. riLE MA/NTENANCt

1.

ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

C. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECK:;


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. mULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM - FORCED

DIALOGUE




c. STEMJSINC. PERMITTED

d. SYNOMPIS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERnS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

`Uses files

pre;lared

externally

S!?.

pArd

Tf

Yes

MO

(see

C.)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

None


a. MUST NArtE FIELDS

b. MAY LI "IT FIELDS

-c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT

S. NESTING or HooLEAN

EXPRESSIONS


SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLIEn

i. RANGE sr:ARCHING

4.TUTORIAL FEATURES

a. 'HELP" COMMAND

L. DOCUMENTATION

nN -LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

h. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE


a, OFF -LINE. PRINTING

h. DISPLAY OF. GRAPHS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


ai SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. CouNTING

d. ARITIIMET/C


1. TERMINAL

2, DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No (Exclusive

OR instedd)

Yes

No

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ye;

Yes

No

No

None

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoNo


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COS-

b.

c.

DATA BASES

TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

RAHIS

MATHEMAT/CA, Inc.

Princeton Station Office Park

P.O. Box 2392

Princeton, N.J. 08540

609-799-2600

Yes

521,000-S36,000

Yes

5840- 51300/mo.

Yes

Approx. 33% over raw computer

time

None

Yes


a. FIRST INSTALLATION 1967

h. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

Standard Oil of California,

Boll Telephone Labs, Nabisco,

Inc.



1967

b. PRESENT USAGE

75 major corporation users


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES

5. TRANSMISS'ON RATES

6. RE- ENTRANT FOR

mULTIPLE USERS

IBM 360, 370

OS (TSO), CPCMS /VH 370

Assembler * FORTRAN

All kinds

All rates

No

C. FILE DEFINITION

I. USER DEFINABLE


3. =PEA= FIELDS

D. TILE !tAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGRMMED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

mACVINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LIRE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE




c.

d.

e.

f.

STErCIING PERMITTED

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

CHECKING TERM IN

CON-

Yes

'ies

Yes

YcYes

Yes

Yes

YOE;

Yes

NA

Yes (CPCMS

version)

Yes

Yes

Limited; RAmIS

isprimarily

data-oriented

No

Yes (by

arcangement)

Yes (by

character

striro?.s, use

masks)

Yes (group

names)

No

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

3. spApcp SPECIFICATION

MUST NAME FIELDS

"AY LIMIT FIELDS

BOOLEAN AND

BOOLEAN OR

BOOLEAN NOT

NESTING OF BOOLEAN

EY.PRESS/ONS

YeS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCTING

No

NATURAL ENGLISH

Yes

RANGE SEARCHING

YeS

a.b.

c.d. e.

f. 9-

h. i.

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes


a. "HELP" COUHJiND

b. DOCU!ENTATION

nN-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

None, but user

build

tstn teatures

File structure,

rch strategy,

u%:e linked-list

a. 7ANDOM

nierarchica7:

b. osQuENTIAL

trees


F. nFPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGr Tyrr

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. ,roIA FLEXIBILITY


b. ;)ISPLAY OF GRAPHS

C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS

No

N0Yes (eMLeddee

In query

Yes

No


a. SORTING

Yes

h. scourNc/Nc

Y,

C. COUNTING

Yes

d, ?ErTWIETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes, very

plete

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes


1. SYSTEM NA EE

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. ,,A/N FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE. LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TY'ES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

HEconisTrls, JURIS, ENVIRON,

TOXICON (same system);

Lockheed's DIALOG is

technically the same.

NASA

Science

Information

Division

Washington, D.C.

301-755-3465

Available via ,OOSM.IC. EXtented

%.,erion available Ly late 1972

No, in -house services only at

government agencies; EIZI

service publicly available at

special centers.

ELM (TOXICON) han CBAC,

Toxicity Bibliography; NASA has

STAR, IAA; Justice (JUR/S) has

fuRrs data base;

Yes (with help from a

contractor)

1967 for f:ASA

NASA, NLM, Justice, AEC, EPA,

Federal 'Tediation and

Conciliation Service

NA IBM 360/50

OS/MVT and NFT

RECON (the interactive

subsystem) is all assembler;

STIES (the batch file

Maintenance subsystem) is PL/1

assembler.

ASCII compatible terminals, :Br

2260, Bunker Ram° 2200, and TTY

compatible

10 -30') cps

C. FILE DEEINITION

1. USER Ers/NAn1E

2. VARIABLE LI:NrTr TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

LI. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS n:; -LILAC

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION cnrcrs


ENTERED DATA

4. miTOtATIC OR

ACHINE-_7\IDED

CONTENT INDEXING

F. OrtRY


a. 'TULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. sYsTErf-FORCED

DIALOGUE

2. CONTEST _SEARCHING


b. FULL TEXT IWSRE/ON

c. STErfniNG rErf!ITTro

d. syNoNyrs

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS

f. CHECKING TER! IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

No

Yes.

:rove

Yes

Yen

Ne

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yen

Yes, via

EXPAND

Yes


a. "UST NAME FIELDS

L. "AY 1.V7IT FIELDS

` c. BOOLEAN AND

BOOLEAN OE

e. nonEEAN NOT

f. ::ESTINfl Or BooLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

(7. PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING.

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

SEARCHING


a. "TIEEr- c0 ,"4AND

NOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

S. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

b. SEOUENTIAL


r. PEPOPT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

V. SELECT APONG

OPTIONS

c. Otti CODE

2. -ED/A FLEXIBILITY

a.^EF-LINE PRINTING

U. DISPLAY OF GRAPHS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


A. PORTING

b..SEOUENC/NG

c. COUNTING

d. APITV"ETIC

,I. SECURITY PROTECTION

1. TEPM/NAL

2. DATA EASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SeYes

yes, via

EXPLAIN

Yes

,:0

7:0

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Nr,

No

Yen

NoYes

Ne

YeS

Yes

No

No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

4E1 (Remote File Inquiry

System)

NASA

John F. Kennedy Space Center

Automatic Data Processing

Center

Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

32899

305-867-4166

Available to government

agencies

No, in-house use only

NASA technical data on parts

reliability, financial

management, master personnel,

etc.

NA

1969

NASA Headquarters, NASA Space

Center


a. SERVICE INITIATION 1969

b. PRESENT USAGE

See 4.b.; supplied to Army

Safeguard Command and House of

Representatives, but usage

there unknown


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE- ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

Minimum 360/40

OS/MFT(QTAM), MVT at NASA

Headquarters

Assembler (level F)

TTY compatible

110 baud

Yes

C. r/LE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. "APIABLE LENGTH TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D.

MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS. ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE'

c. DELETION

d. ED/TING


"ALIDATION CHECKS

3. oRTIONAL ORDERING OF

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OP

,ACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

C. QUERY


a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENGLISH -LIKE

PHRASING

C. SYSTEM-roll=

DIALOGUE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yen

No

No

Yes

No


a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Yes


No


No

d. SYNONYMS

Yes, of

e. DISPLAY OF

keywords

RELATED TERMS

No

f. CEECKING TERM IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

No


a. MUST NAME FIELDS

Yes

I. 'AY LIMIT rxrLDS

BOOLEAN AND

.Yen

d. BOOLEAN OR

Yes

c. BOOLEAN NOT

Yen

f. NESTING Or BOOLEAN

FxPREssIONF

Yes


SEARCHING

No

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

Yes

FANCE SEARcNiNc

Yen


a. 'HELP" COMMAND

b. o0CUMENTAT/oN

ON -r.INE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

h. SEQUENTIAL



1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

C. OWN CODE



b. DISPLAY Or CRAPES

C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

C. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC

O. SECURITY PROTECTION

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA RASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

None

A combination

of a, i, and c

Ho

Yes

No

Yes

NoNo

Yen

Yes

Yes

NO, but

automatic total

for arithmetic

fields

No

Yes

Yes

Yes


1. SYSTEM NAPE

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT .COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

R/OS

Vogelback Computing Center

Northwestern Univ.

Evanston, Ill. 50201

312-492-3741

By arrangement

To non-profit or educational

Organisations

Cost-reimbursable

Mostly bibliographies (Computer

science, physics, etc.),

journal abstracts for social

sciences, others

Yes

Sept. 1959

Sept., 1969 (demonstration of

prototype)

Heavy usage, over 50 data

bases in Chicago area.

CD

C 6

400

SCOPE 3.3 + in-house built

interactive front-end (on-line

subsystem)

FORTRAN + COMPASS

TTY-compatihle; IMLAC graphics

terminal (15k baud, local

connection)

10. IS, 30 cps

No

C. FILE orriuTTIoN

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. VARIABLE LENCTIT TEXT

1. REPEATED r/PLOS

D. FILE "AINTENANCE

4.ALLOWS ON -LINE

a. CREATION

b.UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. P

RE

PRO

GR

AM

ME

D D

AT

AIr

AL

IDA

TIO

NCHECKS

3. OPTIONAL ORDERING, or

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE - AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. mULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED =Hrs.

f. CHECX/NG TERM IN CON-

TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Yes

Yes

No on-line

capability

Yes (user

specified)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

NoYes, user may

request in-

verted index,

or else full

text search

occurs on all

items

No

No

No

No


a. MUST NA,Ir FIELDS

U.

LIMIT- FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN Ov

e. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NESTING OF HOCiUMV:

EXPRESS/ONt

PHRASE AND DISTANCE.

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL MM./SP

i. PANCE SEARCHING

e!. TrToRTAL FEATunrs

a. "limp" CO! mAND

b. DOCU"ENTATInu

ON -LINE

S. SEARCH ST"ATECY

a. RANDOM

h. SEQUENTIAL

c. INDEXED SEQUENTIA'


1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OuTprT

h. SELECT A'.ONG

OPTIONS

c. OWN CODE

2. MEDIA mrxrHxL/TT

a. Orr-LINE PRINT/NC


c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS

3. SPECIAL CAPAPILITIES

a. SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d.ARTTms"Tic


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA RASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

No Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NO

dis

tanc

esearch

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, fnr

specified

records or

subsets

Yes, for

full file

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yen

Yen

No

Yes, batch

mode only

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No Na


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WEAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE

D. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES

5. TRANSHISSION RATES

6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

SHOEBOX

MITRE Corp.

Bedford, Mass. 01730

Contact: Henry A. Bayard

617-271-2582.

Yes

By arrangement; probably at

reproduction cost to government

users

Yes

By arrangement with MITRE Corp.

None

Yes

1970

None, other than MITRE

IBM 360 or 370 (SHOEBOX requires

186 K bytes of core)

OS/PCP, MET, MVT

TREET (LISP derivative)

IBM 2260 alphanumeric display

2500 cps (in local

configuration)

Yes (Ur to 8 concurrent users)

c. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. VARIABLE LENCTP TEXT

3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. PILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOPS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4, AUTOMATIC OR

"ACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. OUERY


a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGL/SE-LIKE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM- FORCED

DIALOGUE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No


a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY No

b. FULL TEXT INVERFION

Yes

c. STEMMING PERM /TIED

Yes, left,

right, or

d. SYNON=

Yes (user

definable)

e. DISPLAY OF

No

RELATED TERMS

f. CHECKING TERR IN CON- No

TROLLED VOCABULARY

3. SEARCH EPECIFICATION

a. "UST NAME FIELDS

'lc.

b. "AY LIMIT rIELDS

Yes, limit tc

preestablished

text Segment:

gives

S f tex7

c. BOOLEAN AND

Yes

d. BOOLEAN op

Ye-

e. BOOLEAN NOT

Yes

f. NESTING or PO(MEAN

EXPRESSIONS

Yes

q. PERASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

Yes

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

No

i. RANGE SEARCHING

Yer


a. *HELP' COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON -LINE

S. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. !LANDO*.

No

b. SEQUENTIAL

Yes

c. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL NoNo

NO, but complex

commands entered

via explanatory

suectiOnnaire

F. ?SPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

Yes

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

No

c. OWN CODE

Yes



h. DISMAY or GRAPHS

C. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. APITH"ETIC


1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. MELD

Yes

NoYes (punched

cards)

Yes

No

Yes

No No

Yes

no No


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

SOLAR

Washington State University

Pullman, washingtOn, 99163

509-335-3564

Yes

Not established

NoNo

Yes

5500 annual subscription plus

costs per demand searches

subset of CABC plus local

literatures

No


a. FIRST INSTALLATION Since 1971

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

None yet


a. SERVICE INITIATION Since 1971 for internal use

only

b. PRESENT USAGE

Very infrequent, about ten

times per month


1. MAIN FRAME

IBM 360/67 operating as a 65

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

OS MVT

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

PL/1 plus assembly

4. TERMINAL TYPES

Any TTY compatible with IBM

1050,and 2741


10, 14.7 ard 15 cps

6. RE- ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

Yes

C. nix ocrrNITToN

1. USER DEFINABLE


3. REPEATED FIELDS

D. FILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON -LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROCRAMMED DATA

VALIDATION CHECXS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY


a. ULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

ENGLISH-LIKE

PHRASING

SYSTEM - FORCED

DIALOGUE

b.

C.



h.

c.d.

e.

FULL TEXT INVERSION

STEMMING PERMITTED

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

No

Yes

No

No

No

No No

Yes

No

Yes, in batch-

mode only

Yes

Yes

No

Yes, special

vocabulary for

use in the CC AC

data base

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes, separate

dictionary used

on-line in

browse mode

No


a. MUST NAME FIELDS

t. NAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. f.

BOOLEAN

rg7BOOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANCE SEARCHING

4


a. "HELP' COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

b. SEOUZNTIAL


r. nrroRT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

OWN CODE




c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


1. 'TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

NO

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

NoNo

No

No

No

No

No

NoNo

No

T.. GENERAL DTSCRIPTION

1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH. SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES



b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS



b. PRESENT USAGE


1. "AIN rRAms

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

SPIRES II

Institute for Communication

Research

Stanford Univ.

Stanford, Ca. 94305

415-321-2300, X2755

Dy arrangement

Yes

Based on resources used +

$3.50 /Connect hour

Yes

NA

Fall. 1972

People are still learning how

to use it.

There have been

many outside incuirieS.

/DM 360/57

ORVYL under OS / "FT -II

PLW

Primarily In!. 2741.

Other

types can be supported.

10, IS cps

Yes

C. TILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

2. YARIADLE LENGTH TEXT

3. 7ErEATro rrxr.or

D.FILE MAINTENANCE

I. ALLOWS oN-LINE

a, CREATION

h.T'PDATE

c. DELETION

d, EDITING

2. PREPROGRAMmED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

Acilm-AIDEE

CONTENT INDEXING

N. °UTZ,/


a."PITIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h, ENGLISH -ZINC

PHRASING

c. SYSTE"-FORCED

DIALOGUE

Yes

Yes

YC5

Yer

overnight

Overnight

Yes

Yes

Yas

No

Yes

Yes


a. CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Yes, when

user-defineJ

YeS, On

user-designated

tiles

Yes

Yes

b.

c.d.

e.

f.

FULL TEXT INVERSION

STEM_MING rErztryrrsa

SYNONYMS

DISPLAY or

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Yes

3.RE ARE" sprciricATIoN

a. "UST NAIVE FIELDS

b. "AY LImIT FIELDS

C. BOOLEAN AND

d. rooLEAN OR

e. BOOLLAN NOT

Yes

f. STSTING OF BOOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

Yos

q.RIIRAnn AND DISTANCE

snAncrINN

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

!al

RANCE SEARCHING

Yen

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Nu.

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

4. TVTOMIAL FEATURES

a. "HELP" COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON LINE

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RAND',"

h. SEQUENTIAL

e. INDEXED SEQUENTIAL


1- LANGUAGE TYPE

a, STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

oPTIONS

c. <Y4'.1 CODE

2. .MEDIA FLEXIDIL/TY

a. OFF -LINO PRINTING

b. DISPLAY OF GRAPES

c. srEcrAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

C. COUNTING

d. AR:TurETic


I. TERMINAL

2. DATA EASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

A. CENrRAL DESCRIPTION

1. SYSTEM NAME

oRIcINATOR

TELEPRoNE

STAIRS

.1171 Corporation

Data Processing Division

1133 Westchester Ave.

White Plains, N.Y. 10604

Local representative


a. FOR PURCHASE

No

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE .

AT WHAT COST


A. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

C. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

Yes

5500.00 per month

NA


a. FIRST INSTALLATION July,

b. qrNNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

1972

Not available


NA


b. PRESENT USAGE

R. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE- ENTRANT POR.

MULTIPLE USERS

IBM 360, 370 series

oSpo,T or "VT (with CICS)

Assembly, with some PL/1

Ism 2741, 2260, 2265

15, 120 or 240 cps

Yes

C. FILE DErzNITIoN

1. UsrP. DEFINABLE

2. VARIABLE LENGTH

3. REPEATED FIELDS

U.r/Lr MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

Yes

TEXT

Yrs

No


VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTt"IATIC OR

"ACE/NE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

F. QUERY


a. "ULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

h. ENGLISH -LIKE.

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE





d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERms

f. CHECKINC TER!! IN cm-

:ROLLED VOCABULARY

NoNoYrs (marked for

leletion during

hatch

No No

,Yes, merge

records

ile, tut not

..fields wi'.ir

rerd

NO

Yes

Yes

No

NoYes

Yes

Yes

NO

NA


a. MUST NAME FIELDS

1'.

'SAY LI"IT rIrLDr

c. BOOL=1 AND

d. 11001.rAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS


SEARCH/NC

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

I. RANGE SEARcRINc

4. TUTORIAL reA.TuRrs

a. 'HELP" Coo'At:.)

b. DoCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

No

Yes

Yes

Yrs

Yes

Yrs

Yes

Yrs (in

Yes

Yes (under

nd

SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDO

Y.

h. SEQUENTIAL

Yea

c. INDEXED scQuENT/AL

Yen

SPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

C. OWN CODE

2. -rD/A FLEXIBILITY


h. MISPLAY or GRAPHS

c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

srOrrNCING

c. COUNTING

d. AR/TIC'ETIC

M. SECURITY PROTECTION

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. "ECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NoNo

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE.

AT WHAT COST

SYSTEM 2000 (TM req.)

.7r1 Systems Corp.

P.O, Box 9968

Austin,'Tx. 78766

512-258-5171

Yes

525,000 (minimum package).

Yea

5740 or 5960 /mo. with option to

buy (minimum package)


a. SEARCH SERVICE

Yes

AT WHAT COST

Arrang

with data center

b. DATA BASES

None

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA. BASES

Yes, with help from '4R/ and

data centers


a. FIRST INSTALLATION July, 1970

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

Control Data data center, St.

Paul Insurance Co. (IBM

version), INFONET

5. HISTORY or SERVICE

a. SEPVICE INITIATION July, 1970

b. PRESENT USAGE

Approx. 200 users.


0 versions exist;

corresponding data on separate

lines)

1. MAIN FRAME

IBM 360,370

UN/VAC 1100 series

CDC 6000 and CYDER 70 series

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES

5. TRANSMISSION PATES

6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

OS/MVT, MET, TSO, vs/1

EXEC 8, CSTS

SCOPE, KRONOS

rOPTRAN

Assembler

TTY 33, 35, IBM 2741, 2260

10, 15, 120, 240 cps

Only /BM version

c. rILE DEFINITION

1. USER DErINABLE


3. REPEATED r/ELos

D. riLE NAINTENANCC

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

b. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. rsEPRoGRAN,IED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE -AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

F. QUERY

1. USER- SYSTEM INTrnACT/ON

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -LINE

PHRASING

C. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE



b. ruLL TEXT INVERSION


d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERnr,


TROLLED VOCABULARY

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

No No

Yes

No

None


a. "UST NA:2: FIELDS

Yen

b. MAY LIMIT FIELDS

--

c. BOOLEAN AND

Yes

d. BOOLEAN OR

Yes

e. BOOLEAN NOT

Yes

f. NESTING or sooLEAN

ExrsEssiors

Yes


SEARCHING

NO

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

Yen

i. RANGE- SEARCHING

Yen


a. "HELP' COMMAND

No

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON- LINE:

No

5. SEARCH STPATrGY

a. %ANDO.'

h. SEOUENTIAL

c. INDEXED SEOCE%TIAL


NoYs (Inverted files)

No

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

Yes

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

Yes

C. OWN CODE

Ye, (FOPTRAN, COBOL)

2. "EDIA FLEXIBILITY

PRINTING


c. SPEC/AL OUTPUT:


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

7.RITE"ETIC

G. sEcuR/Ty RnOTECTION

1. TERMINAL

2. DATA EASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

-

Yes

Yes

Yen

Ye

Yon

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes (ID" only)

Yoa


1. SYSTEM NAME

ORIGINATOR

TF.LEPHONE

TICON (Timeshared Information

Control System)

Advanced Computer Systems, Inc.

3131 S. Dixie Dr.

.

Dayton, Ohio 45439

513..294-0586

SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY

a. FOR PURCHASE

Yes

AT WHAT COST

Basic system is $50 X.

b. FOR LEASE

Yes

AT WHAT COST

By arrangement


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST

b. DATA BASES

c. TAXES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

NA


a: FIRST INSTALLATION Available andoperational, but

none installed yet.

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS


NA


b. PRESENT USAGE.

E. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERMINAL TYPES


6. RE-ENTRANT FOR

MULTIPLE USERS

rip! 360. 370

OS

Assembler

CRT. TTY, any BTAM or GRAPHIC

supported terminal,

80 Cps, 10 cps

Yes

C. PILE DEFINITION

urER DEFINABLE

Yes

2. VAR/ABLE IX:NMI, TEXT

Yes

3. REPEATED FIELDS

Yes

. PILE MAINTENANCE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

A. CREATION

b, unoATE

C. DELETIOO

d. EDITING


VALIDATION CHECXS

3. oPTIONAL ORDERING or

ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

E. QUERY

1. urEP-sysTE INTERACT/ON

a. MULTIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISL-LINE

PHRASING

c. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE



b. rum. TEXT INVERSION


d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY

noYes

arithresi,.

Ccrd LT.IY)

Ho

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

NO

`Io

Yes

Yes

NO

No

Yes


a. MUST mvn: =Los

h. MAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT

f. NEST/NG OF BoOLEAN

EXPRESSIONS

Yes

o. MANE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING.

Yen

h. NATURAL ENGL/SA

Yes

1.PANGE SEARCHING

Yes

4. '''UTORIAL FEATURES

a. 'HELP- COMAND

h. oocu.TNTATroN

oN-LINE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

srApcp STRATEGY

a. RANDO"

h. SECV7NT/AL

c. INDEXED SEOUF':TIAL

REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD oCTAVT

h. SELECT ArouG

OPTIONS

r. ONN CODE

2. "IOTA mExibILITy

a. °Fr -LINE PAINTING


c. SPECIAL OUTPUE'S

3. SPECIAL cAnAr/L/T/Fs

a. SORTING

h. SEQUENCING

c. COUNTING

d. APITIHT:Tic


I. TERMINAL

2. DATA DANE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

No

No

Inverted file

for each word,

arc,21,ng

via inalces

Yes

Ho

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yen

NG No

Yon

Yes

Yes

Yen

Yes

Yes

Yes

A. GENERAL 'DESCRIPTION

1. .SYSTEM HARE

oftrcTEAToR

TELEPHONE


a. FOR PURCHASE

AT WHAT COST

b. FOR LEASE

AT WHAT COST


a. SEARCH SERVICE

AT WHAT COST .

b. DATA BASES

c. TAKES CUSTOMER

DATA BASES

UNIDATA

United Computing Systems

1130 Broadway

Kansas City, Mo. 64106

816-753-4500

Yes

By arrangement

Yes

By arrangement

Yes

Variable, ave. $25-S35/connect

hour

None

Yes


a. FIRST INSTALLATION Fall 1969

b. SIGNIFICANT

INSTALLATIONS

Only UCS

HISTORY OF SERVICE


b. PRESENT USAGE

B. conTuTER.Euv/RoNmENT

1. MAIN FRAME

2. OPERATING SYSTEM

3. SOURCE LANGUAGE

4. TERM/NM...TYPES

5. TRANSMISSION FATEF

6. PT. -ENTRANT Ton

MULTIPLE USERS

rail 1969

Data not available

CDC 4000 series

!AX (in- house) -or KRONOS (CDC)

roRTRAN, COMPASS

All low-speed terminals; remote

batch CDC 210 USER terminal

compatible.

Also CRT devices.

1n-30 cps, 2400-96GO baud

Yes

C. FILE DEFINITION

1. USER DEFINABLE

Yes


Yes

3. REPEATED FIELDS

Yes

D. FILE nAINTENANcE

1. ALLOWS ON-LINE

a. CREATION

h. UPDATE

c. DELETION

d. EDITING

2. PREPROGRANNED DATA

VALIDATION CHECKS


ENTERED DATA

4. AUTOMATIC OR

MACHINE-AIDED

CONTENT INDEXING

C. OUERY


a. "XITIPLE OPTIONS

AT ANY POINT

b. ENGLISH -unr

PHRASING

C. SYSTEM-FORCED

DIALOGUE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Limited


None




d. SYNONYMS

e. DISPLAY OF

RELATED TERMS


TROLLED VOCABULARY


a. "UST NAME FIELDS

b. NAY LIMIT FIELDS

c. BOOLEAN AND

d. BOOLEAN OR

e. BOOLEAN NOT


EXPRESSIONS

PHRASE AND DISTANCE

SEARCHING

h. NATURAL ENGLISH

i. RANGE SEARCHING

g.


A. 'HELP' COMMAND

b. DOCUMENTATION

ON-LINE

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

None

5. SEARCH STRATEGY

a. RANDOM

Yes

b. SEQUENTIAL

No


No

REPORT GENERATION

1. LANGUAGE TYPE

a. STANDARD OUTPUT

Yes

b. SELECT AMONG

OPTIONS

Yes

C. OWN CODE

Yes

2.

ED/A FLEXIBILITY



c. SPECIAL OUTPUTS


a. SORTING

b. SEQUENCING

C. COUNTING

d. ARITHMETIC


2. TERMINAL

2. DATA BASE

3. RECORD

4. FIELD

Yes

Yes

Yes, rag tape.

Yes

NoYes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

5. GLOSSARY OF COMMON DATA BASIS

APA - American Psychological Association has created a data base con-taining the past four years' Psychological Abstracts.

COMPENDEX - Computerized Engineering Index, issued monthly by EngineeringIndex, Inc., is the .2omputer-readable version of the printedpublication, Enginee-ing Index Monthly, which contains referencesspanning all engineering disciplines. These references are takenfrom professional and trade journals, publications of engineeringorganizations, papers from conferences and symposiums, books, andother documents.

CA-C - Chemical Abstracts Condensate issued by Chemical Abstracts Ser-vice is the computer searchable complement to the printedpublication, Chemical Abstracts (CA), which covers the full rangeof chemistry, referencing 250,000 articles per year.

CA-Condensates is issued weekly; the content corresponds to anissue of CA. The tape version, CA-Condensates, precedes thecorresponding printed issue of CA by several weeks due to thetime required to print, bind, and distribute CA printed issues.

The abstracts in CA and CA-Condensates are grouped into five.categories: Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, MacromolecularChemistry, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, andPhysical and Analytical Chemistry. The first two groupingsare published as an odd numbered issue one week, and the lastthree groupings are published as an even numbered issue the fol-lowing week. Searches may be limited to odd or even numberedissues if desired.

CAIN - A data base distributed by the National Agricultural Library, itcovers literature from all over the world concerned with agricul-ture in a broad sense. Ten per cent of the coverage consistsof monographs; the remaining 90% consists of journal articles.The 90% comes from a review of 1,200 journals.

CT - Chemical Titles, also issued by Chemical Abstracts Service ,

contains journal references to approximately 4,500 articles perissue appearing in 650 important U. S. and n)n-U. S. chemicaland engineering journals. Titles that appear in CT represent over65% of the total abstracts that later appear in Chemical Abstracts.Chemical Titles offers journal references to articles approximately70 days before their abstracts are published in Chemical Abstracts.In many cases titles appear in Chemical Titles before the journalcontaining the article is published. Thus Chemical Titles isvaluable as an alerting service.

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CEA': - Onomical-Biological Activities, also issued by Chemical AbstractsServices, provides up-to-date coverage of published work concern-ed with the interaction of organic compounds (drugs, pesticides,etc.) mith biological systems.Also covered are metabolism studieS and studies of in-vitrochemical reactions of biochemical interest. Nearly 700 journalsare monitored. CBAC is a consolidated source of informationin the chemical-biological field, and especially appeals toscientists involved in biochemical and physiological research.

The tape version of CBAC corresponds to the Chemical-BiologicalActivities hard-copy version; however, tape issues are usuallyavailable two-four weeks ahead of the printed copy. Each issuecontains 500-600 digests.

ENVIRON - Environmental Information Retrieval On-line is a modified ,

version of RECON operating at Environmental Protection Agency(EPA). It services the EPA and maintains a data base of 8separate files as follows:(1) Selected literature reference on noise abatement and control.(2) Selected literature on industrial waste.(3) Data and abstracts on on-going EPA contracts and grants

research effort.(4) Data and abstracts on final reports of EPA contracts and

grants research effort.(5) Information on oil spills.(6) Information on lists of potentially toxic chem:::als.(7) Information on water quality monitoring stations and

parameters.(8) Information on administrative records.

E'(IC - Educational Resources Information Center is a nation-wide infor-mation network for acquiring, selecting, abstracting, indexing,storing, retrieving, and disseminating the most significantand timely educational research reports and projects. It is aproject of the U. S. Office of Education, and produces twodata bases, RIE (Research in Education) and CIJE (Current Indexto Journals in Education).

IAA - See STAR

INSPEC - A data base distributed by England's Institution of ElectricalEngineers, it covers the fields of physics, electrical andelectronic engineering, computers, and control engineering.Seventy-five percent of the coverage comes from a review of about2,000 journals. The other 25% are reports, monographs, patents,etc.

MARL II is a data base containing bibliognaphic citations prepared bythe Library of Co n3ress.

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NTIS - is a data base issued by National Technical Information Serviceof the U. S. Department of Commerce. It consists of unclassifiedgovernment reports resulting from government-sponsored research.The reports are compiled in a publication now called GovernmentReports Announcements (GRA). GRA is available in machine read-able form from the Department of Commerce.

The tapes contain standard bibliographic information such asauthor and title, as well as abstracts, descriptor terms, andinformation on how to order copies. The information consistsmainly of science, engineering and mathematics, but also includesreports on behavioral and social sciences.

JUSL - Justice Retr:eval and Inquiry System is a data base developedby the U. S. Department of Justice. It is designed to servelawyers for the Federal government in their research process.Thu data base contains selected legal periodicals and reportedcases, advisory opinions, supreme court briefs, solicitor general'smemoranda, selected appellate briefs, selected legal memoranda,legal correspondence, legal memoranda on points of authority,agency general counsel specialized briefs and memoranda, etc.

MEDLINE - MEDLARS On-line data base is a special subset of the MEDLARSfile, developed by the National Library of Medicine through theirscreening and analysis of the world's biomedical literature.MEDLINE covers over 1,100 biomedical journals from 1970 to pre-sent, whereas MEDLARS covers 2,400 biomedical journals from 1961to present. The current file contains 400,000 records, andapproximately 12,000 new records are added monthly.

PANDEX - The PANDEX tape contains current index to scientific and tech-nical literatures appearing in more than 2400 journals. Thebibliographic information includes the title of the articles,name(s) of the author(s), name of the journal, Coden abbreviation,issue number, page number, and subject heading taken from aPANDEX thesaurus. PANDEX is produced by CCM Information Corpor-ation, New York.

SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) - a data base distributedmonthly by the American Institute of Physics, it covers over one-half of the world's physics and astronomy literature. Over30,000 items are included every year from a journal coverage of70 journals.

STAR - Scientific And Technical Aerospace Reports and InternationalAerospace Abstracts - are two data bases issued by NASA. Theycontain reports and journal articles that the NASA scientificand technical information program has collected. These databases represent significant findings of Government, industrial,and academic researchers throughout the world on matters ofinterest to the aerospace oommunity.

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TOXICON - A data base collected by the Toxicology Information Program,National Library of Medicine of the Department of Health, Edu-cation and Welfare. It contains bibliographic citations ofliterature primarily in the area of toxicology, pharmacologyand environmental health. The citations include all the princi-pal components of a literature reference; namely, author, title,journal, journal coden, volume, issue, pagination and year.Most references are annotated with index terms, an abstract orboth. Where possible and appropriate, Chemical Abstracts Ser-vice Registry Numbers are made part of the annotation.

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6. BIBLIOGRAPHY

There have been a number of survey.. and other works done in recentyears which are similar in intent to ours but not identical in scope orform. A selective bibliography is now presented.

[1] Anderson, R. K., "Index of Data Management Software Packages,"National Bureau of Standards, Report 10 932, Oct. 1972.

[2] Auerbach Corporation, "Methodology for Evaluating Data ManagementSystems," Auerbach Report 5081-TR-1, undated.

[3] CODASYL Systems Committee, "A Survey of Generalized Data BaseManagement Systems," CODASYL Technical Report, May 1969.

[4] CODASYL Systems Committee, "Feature Analysis of Generalized DataBase Management Systems," CODASYL Technical Report, May 1971.

[5] Fong, E., "A Survey of Selected Document Processing Systems,"National Bureau of Standards Technical Note 599, Oct. 1971.

[6] Fry, J. P.,Corporation

[7] Koehr, G. JCorporation

et. al.,"Data Management Systems Survey," MITREReport MTP-329, Jan. 1969.

., et. al., "Data Management Systems Catalog," MITREReport MTP-139, Jan. 1973.

[8] Marron, B., et. al., "A Study of Six University-Based InformationSystems," Technical Note 781, National Bureau of Standards, June1973.

[9] Seidenf H. R., "A Comparative Analysis of Interactive Storage andRetrieval Systems with Implications for BCN Design," SystemDevelopment Corporation Technical Memorandum 4421, Jan. 1970.

[10] Walker, D. E. (editor), Interactive Bibliographic Search: TheUser/Computer Interface, AFIPS Press, 1971.

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rook, NBS114A (101)u.s. DEPT. or comm.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATASHEET

1. 1,1111.R.A HON OR RE PoRT No.

NiBS IN-819

2. Oov't AccessionNo,

3. Recipient's Accession N.

4. 111.1.1' AND stitIll I I

A iT(:tlli1CAL 1NLEX ',:',F 11.aMCriVE 1NFCF.I.XION SYSTEMS

5. Publication Date

March 1)7

6, Per forming Organization Code

7. NuritoR1 Lcnnis W. Fite, Kir k Fankin, Elizabeth Yong,Justin C. 1Rer, Beatrice A. Marron

8 Performing Organization

9. PERT ORMIN ( i OFttcAN I li) V ION NAME AND ADDRESS

NA V IONA I. BUREAU OF !-; l'AND ARDSMP ARTMEN.V Of t-t)A1Ai1ltt.EIt ASIIINGION, D.(;. 2O2) I

10, ProiectirTask Work Unit No.

64C11. C.:.ntractA;tant No.

12. zi-,,q.l.oririlz, (f,t4,1r117.51 ton Name and AdiIr..ss

,National Science Foundation1800 G Street, N....

".>asilin,,:,ton, D. C. 20550

13. Type of Report & PeriodCovered

Final

14. Sponsoring Agency Code

-1S. SLY-414:11LN I'ARY NOVI S

16. AI;SURACT t A 200word or less factual summary of most significant information. If document neludes a significantbibliopaphv or literature survey, mention it here.)

This report constitutes a reference to technical features and operationalstatus of interactive information systems, i.e. those providing a 'conversational'usage node to a 'non-programer' through a data terminal device. It is aimed atthe ADP service manager, for his use in the state -of- the -art assessments preparatoryto a detailed system selection'process. It contains an index that describes 46systems in terms of a list of over 50 technical features plus descriptive, identi-fication, and background information. In addition, there are aids and exampleScontributing to the intended use of the index.

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