Acquisition, archiving and interchange.

Expert InsightsPublished 1966

"Acquisition" is used to mean the conversion of information from a form designed for human consumption to one designed for machine input. This can be done using a standard keyboard device such as a typewriter (perhaps slightly modified, perhaps with a variable character set). Many different kinds of printed material can be encoded in ways that retain the important typographical distinctions, if the encoding conventions used for each item stored with the item to enable it to be printed out for reading later. The RAND Text and Catalog System for the machinable archiving of printed text is described, and a format of still greater generality is outlined. A common encoding and formatting scheme is necessary to permit interchange of materials between archives, and it must be such as to allow the publication of high-quality extracts.

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  • Year: 1966
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