Automation of the Duplicate Checking Function at DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center). Part 1. Overview,

Abstract

PRIOR TO 1981 THE Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) used manual processes inhouse for technical report collection, acquisition, duplicate checking, cataloging, and reference procedures. These procedures were accomplished through DTIC's card catalog, which referenced a little over one million technical reports, and hypothetically paralleled the same records stored in the DTIC Technical Report Database. The card catalog's primary justification was to serve as backup to the database. But in practice it was the principal source of inhouse reference to the Technical Report collection. This report explains the reasons for automating duplicate checking to make online use of the database, and shows how the manual processes both affected the effort and were affected by it.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA185952

Entities

People

  • Allan D. Kuhn
  • Gladys A. Cotter

Organizations

  • Defense Technical Information Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Information Transfer
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Military Research
  • Online Systems
  • Quality Control
  • Radar Tracking
  • Standards
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Terminals

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.