FORTRAN Software for Creating and Maintaining a Library Cataloging System on Scientifically Oriented Computers. Volume I. Program ADM - The Data Base,

Abstract

The cataloging system of the document center of the Directorate of Aerospace Studies has been computerized on the CDC 6600 computers of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. The system is unusual in that catalog listings of the holdings may be arbitrary in informational content, i.e., with regard to what types of information appear and their order of appearance. Although its initial application was to library cataloging it may be used to catalog any collection of objects which can be described by at most 20 categories of information. This document describes ADM, the FORTRAN program which originally creates and then maintains the data base from which catalog listings are made. It is a user's manual and a programmer's manual. ADM is described in sufficient detail to permit its adoption to other high level computer languages and/or other large, scientifically oriented computers. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA042212

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  • Christopher A. Feuchter

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  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Air Force
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Sets
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Databases
  • Language
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  • Mass Storage
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  • Computer science

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  • Systems Analysis and Design

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  • Space
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