[Sigdl-l] Full Text of Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific
Richard Hill
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[Posted on behalf of Dr=2E Eugene Garfield=2E Dick Hill]
INTRODUCTION:
When I was a young researcher at the Welch Medical Library in 1951, my bib=
le was the Proceedings of the Royal Society Scientific Information Confere=
nce held in London, June 21 to July 2, 1948=2E (see online summary by J=2E=
H=2E McNinch, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 37:136-141 (1949=
)=2E =20
http://www=2Epubmedcentral=2Enih=2Egov/pagerender=2Efegi?artid=3D194801&pa=
geindex=3D1
The four sections and their respective editors-in-chief were :=20
I=2E Publication and Distribution of Papers Reporting Original Work=2E=
Professor J=2ED=2E Bernal, F=2ER=2ES=2E
II Abstracting services=2E Sir David Chadwick
III Indexing and Other Library Services=2E Dr=2E J=2EE=2E Holmstrom
IV=2E Reviews, Annual Reports, etc=2E Professor H=2E Munro Fox, F=2ER=2E=
S=2E
Just seven years later, I was to participate in the 1958 ICSI Conference i=
n Washington=2E While 20,000 copies of the proceedings were printed, it h=
as become increasingly difficult to locate copies of the two- volume set w=
hich is out of print=2E On November 7, 2003 I wrote to President Bruce =
Alberts, the President of the National Academy of Sciences to ask for perm=
ission to scan and OCR these volumes so that they could be posted to the W=
eb=2E On November 11, 2003 he wrote that we "should have the document up =
on our website within weeks"=2E This, in fact happened but the format ado=
pted was the usual one of the NAS Press=2E I pointed out that it was im=
practical to print out 1662 pages one at a time=2E Under the direction of=
Michael Jensen, NAS created individual PDF files for each chapter=2E I=
t is now possible to view each document in both HTML and PDF format=2E
All of us in the information community should be grateful to NAS Press for=
this generous cooperation=2E
In order to scan the complete contents, including author names, please go =
to :
http://books=2Enap=2Eedu/books/NI000518/html/R19=2Ehtml#pagetop
Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information -- T=
wo Volumes=20
Sponsors of the Conference: National Science Foundation, National Academy =
of Sciences, American Documentation Institute, National Research Council=20=
1662 pages, 6x9, 1959=2E ISBN 10866
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The launch of Sputnik caused a flurry of governmental activity in science =
information=2E The 1958 International Conference on Scientific Information=
(ICSI) was held in Washington from Nov=2E16-21 1958 and sponsored by NSF,=
NAS, and American Documentation Institute, the predecessor to the America=
n Society for Information Science=2E In 1959, 20,000 copies of the two vol=
ume proceedings were published by NAS and included 75 papers (1600 pages) =
by dozens of pioneers from seven areas such as:=20
* Literature and reference needs of scientists=20
* Function and effectiveness of A & I services=20
* Effectiveness of Monographs, Compendia, and Specialized Centers=20
* Organization of information for storage and search: comparative characte=
ristics of existing systems=20
* Organization of information for storage and retrospective search: intell=
ectual problems and equipment considerations=20
* Organization of information for storage and retrospective search: possib=
ility for a general theory=20
* Responsibilities of Government, Societies, Universities, and industry fo=
r improved information services and research=2E
It is now an out of print classic in the field of science information stud=
ies=2E=20
VOLUME 1
Table of Contents =20
Front Matter - pp=2E i-xxiv
Opening Session Address - pp=2E 1-8
=20
Area 1: Literature and Reference Needs of Scientists: Knowledge now availa=
ble and methods of ascertaining requirements - pp=2E 9-12
=20
Proposed Scope of Area 1 - pp=2E 13-18
Study on the Use of Scientific Literature and Reference Services by Scandi=
navian Scientists and Engineers Engaged in Research and Development
Elin Tornudd - pp=2E 19-76
=20
The Transmission of Scientific Information
J=2ED=2E Bernal - pp=2E 77-96
=20
An Operations Research Study of the Dissemination of Scientific Informatio=
n
Michael H=2E Halbert and Russell Lackoff - pp=2E 97-130
Information and Literature Use in a Research and Development Organization
I=2EH=2EHOGG and J=2EROLAND SMITH - pp=2E 131-162
=20
Methods by which Research Workers Find Information
R=2EM=2E Fishenden pp=2E 163-180
=20
Determining Requirements for Atomic Energy Information from Reference Que=
stions
Saul Herner and Mary Herner - pp=2E 181-188
=20
Systematically Ascertaining Requirements of Scientists for Information=20
Jiri Spirit and Ladislav Kofnovec - pp=2E 189-194
How Scientists Actually Learn of Work Important to Them
Bentley Glass and Sharon H=2E Norwood - pp=2E 195-198
=20
Planned and Unplanned Scientific Information
Herbert Menzel - pp=2E 199-244
=20
The Use of Technical Literature by Industrial Technologists
Christopher Scott - pp=2E 245-266
=20
Requirements of Forest Scientists for Literature and Reference Services
Stephen H=2E Spurr - pp=2E 267-276
=20
The Information-Gathering Habits of American Medical Scientists
Saul Herner - pp=2E 277-286
=20
Use of Scientific Periodicals
D=2E J=2E Urquhart - pp=2E 287-300
=20
Summary of Discussion
301-312
=20
Area 2: The Function and Effectiveness of Abstracting and=20
Indexing Services - 313-316
=20
Proposed Scope of Area 2 - 317-320
=20
An Evaluation of Abstracting Journals and Indexes
Maurice H=2E Smith - pp=2E 321-350
=20
Analytical Study of a Method for Literature Search in Abstracting Journals=
Paul S=2E Lykoudis, P=2EE=2E Liley, and Y=2ES=2E Touloukian - pp 351-376
=20
The Relation Between Completeness and Effectiveness of a Subject Catalogue=
C=2ES=2E Sabel - pp=2E 377-380
Cost Analysis of Bibliographies or Bibliographic Services
Malcolm Rigby and Marian K=2E Rigby - pp 381-392
=20
The Efficiency of Metallurgical Services
Nerio Gaudenzi - pp=2E 393-406
Subject Slanting in Scientific Abstracting Publications
Saul Herner - pp=2E 407-428
=20
The Importance of Peripheral Publications in the Documentation of Biology
Mildred A=2E Doss - pp=2E 429-434
=20
Current Medical Literature: A Quantitative Survey of Articles and Journals=
Estelle Brodman and Seymour I=2E Taine - pp=2E 435-448
=20
A Combined Indexing-Abstracting System
Isaac D=2E Welt - pp=2E 449-460
=20
A Unified Index to Science
Eugene Garfield - pp=2E 461-474
=20
Lost Information: Unpublished Conference Papers
Feli Liebesny - pp=2E 475-480
=20
International Cooperation in Physics Abstracting
B=2E M=2E Crowther - pp=2E 481-490
=20
International Cooperative Abstracting on Building: An Appraisal=20
A=2E B=2E Agard Evans - pp=2E 491-496
=20
Cooperation and Coordination in Abstracting and Documentation
Otto Frank - pp=2E 497-510
=20
On the Functioning of the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical=
Information of the USSR Academy of Sciences
A=2E I=2E Mikhailov - pp=2E 511-522
=20
Summary of Discussion
523-536
=20
Area 3: Effectiveness of Monographs, Compendia, and Specialized Centers: P=
resent trends and new and proposed techniques and types of services 537-5=
40
=20
Proposed Scope of Area 3
541-544
=20
Review Literature and the Chemist
545-570
=20
The Place of Analytical and Critical Reviews in Any Growing Biological Sci=
ence and the Service They May Render to Research
Isabella Leitch - pp=2E 571-588
=20
Recent Trends in Scientific Documentation in South Asia: Problems of Speed=
and Coverage
P=2E Sheel - pp=2E 589-604
=20
Scientific Documentation in France
J=2E Wyaart - pp=2E 605-612
=20
Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information in a Research Organization=
=20
MAREK CIG=C1NIK - pp 613-648
=20
Summary of Discussion
649-660
=20
Area 4: Organization of Information for Storage and Search: Comparative ch=
aracteristics of existing systems
661-664
=20
Proposed Scope of Area 4 - pp=2E 665-670
=20
Conventional and Inverted Grouping of Codes for Chemical Data
Eugene Miller, Delbert Ballard, John Kingston, and Mortimer Taube=2E - pp=2E=
671-686
=20
The Evaluation of Systems Used in Retrieval Systems on Large Electronic Co=
mputers
CYRIL CLEVERDON - pp=2E 687-698
=20
Experience in Developing Information Retrieval Systems
ASCHER OPLER and NORMA BAIRD
699-710
=20
Printing Chemical Structures Electronically: Encoded Compounds Searched Ge=
nerically with IBM-702
W=2EH=2EWALDO and M=2EDE BACKER
711-730
=20
Evolution of Document Control in a Materials Deterioration Information Cen=
ter
CARL J=2EWESSEL and WALTER M=2EBEJUKI - pp=2E 731-762
=20
Retrieval Questions from the Use of Linde's Indexing and Retrieval System
FRED R=2EWHALEY - pp=2E 763-770
=20
Classification with Peek-a-boo for Indexing Documents on Aerodynamics: An =
Experiment in Retrieval
R=2EC=2EWRIGHT and C=2EW=2EJ=2EWILSON - pp=2E 771-802
=20
Summary of Discussion
803-812
VOLUME 2
Area 5: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: =
Intellectual problems and equipment considerations in the design of new sy=
stems
813-816
=20
Proposed Scope of Area 5
817-822
=20
The Basic Types of Information Tasks and Some Methods of Their Solution
V=2EP=2ECHERENIN - pp=2E 823-854
=20
Subject Analysis for Information Retrieval
B=2EC=2EVICKERY - pp=2E 855-866
=20
The Construction of a Faceted Classification for a Special Subject
D=2EJ=2EFOSKETT - pp=2E 867-888
=20
On the Coding of Geometrical Shapes and Other Representations, with Refer=
ence to Archaeological Documents
J=2E C=2E Gardin - pp=2E 889-902
=20
Subject-Word Letter Frequencies with Applications to Superimposed Coding
HERBERT OHLMAN - pp=2E 903-916
=20
The Analogy between Mechanical Translation and Library Retrieval
M=2EMASTERMAN, R=2EM=2ENEEDHAM, and K=2ESP=C4RCK JONES - pp=2E 917-936
=20
Linguistic Transformations for Information Retrieval
Z=2ES=2EHARRIS - pp=2E 937-950
=20
Linguistic and Machine Methods for Compiling and Updating the Harvard Aut=
omatic Dictionary
A=2EG=2EOETTINGER, W=2EFOUST, V=2EGIULIANO, K=2EMAGASSY, and L=2EMATEJKA -=
pp=2E 951-974
=20
The Feasability of Machine Searching of English Texts
VICTOR H=2EYNGVE - pp=2E 975-996
=20
Semantic Matrices
G=2EPATRICK MEREDITH - pp=2E 997-1026
=20
Interlingual Communication in the Sciences by JOSHUA WHATMOUGH - pp=2E 102=
7-1046
=20
An Overall Concept of Scientific Documentation Systems and Their Design b=
y E=2EJ=2ECRANE and C=2EL=2EBERNIER - pp=2E 1047-1070
=20
The Possibilities of Far-Reaching Mechanization of Novelty Search of the P=
atent Literature by G=2EJ=2EKOELEWIJN - pp=2E 1071-1096
=20
Descriptive Documentation by CHARLES G=2ESMITH - pp=2E 1097-1116
=20
Variable Scope Search System: VS8 by JACOB LEIBOWITZ, JULIUS FROME, and DO=
N D=2EANDREWS - pp=2E 1117-1142
=20
The Haystaq System: Past, Present, and Future by HERBERT R=2EKOLLER, ETHEL=
MARDEN, and HAROLD PFEFFER - pp=2E 1143-1180
=20
A Proposed Information Handling System for a Large Research Organization b=
y W=2EK=2ELOWRY and J=2EC=2EALBRECHT - pp=2E 1181-1202
=20
Information Handling in a Large Information System by P=2ER=2EP=2ECLARIDGE=
- pp=2E 1203-1220
=20
Tabledex: A New Coordinate Indexing Method for Bound Book Form =20
Bibliographies by ROBERT S=2ELEDLEY - pp=2E 1221-1244
=20
The Comac: An Efficient Punched Card Collating System for the Storage and =
Retrieval of Information by MORTIMER TAUBE - pp=2E 1245-1254
=20
Summary of Discussion 1255-1268
=20
Area 6: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: =
Possibility for a general theory
1269-1272
=20
Proposed Scope of Area 6 - 1273-1274
=20
The Structure of Information Retrieval Systems by B=2EC=2E Vickery - pp=2E=
1275-1290
=20
The Descriptive Continuum: A by FREDERICK JONKER - pp=2E 1291-1312
=20
Algebraic Representation of Storage and Retrieval Languages by=20
R=2EA=2EFAIRTHORNE pp 1313-1326
=20
A Mathematical Theory of Language Symbols in Retrieval
Calvin N=2E Mooers - pp=2E 1327-1364
=20
Abstract Theory of Retrieval Coding
Clifford J=2E Maloney - pp=2E 1365-1382
=20
Maze Structure and Information Retrieval
GERALD ESTRIN - pp=2E 1383-1394
=20
Summary of Discussion
1395-1410
=20
Area 7: Responsibilities of Government, Professional Societies, Universit=
ies
1411-1414
=20
Proposed Scope of Area 7
1415-1416
=20
Responsibilities for Scientific Information in Biology: Proposal for Fina=
ncing a Comprehensive System
Milton O=2E Lee1417-1428
=20
Responsibility for the Development of Scientific Information as a Nationa=
l Resource
Hazel Mews - pp=2E 1429-1434
=20
Differences in International Arrangements for Financial Support of Inform=
ation Services
N=2EF=2EGRELL - pp=2E 1435-1440
=20
Training for Activity in Scientific Documentation Work
George Bonn - pp=2E 1441-1488
=20
Training the Scientific Information Officer
A=2EB=2EAGARD EVANS and J=2EFARRADANE - pp=2E 1489-1494
=20
Training for Scientific Information Work in Great Britain
B=2EI=2EPALMER and D=2EJ=2EFOSKETT - pp=2E 1495-1502
=20
The ICSU Abstracting Board: The Story of a Venture in International Coope=
ration
G=2E-A=2EBOUTRY - pp=2E 1503-1516
=20
Creation of an International Center of Scientific Information
PAUL BOQUET - - pp=2E 1517-1522
=20
An International Institute for Scientific Information
WALDO CHAMBERLIN- pp=2E 1523-1534
=20
Summary of Discussion
1535-1548
=20
Closing Session
1549-1562
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Financial Support
1563-1564
=20
Exhibitors
1565-1566
=20
Roster of Registrants
1567-1606
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Index
1607-1638
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