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Testing indexes and index language devices: The ASLIB cranfield project
Article first published online: 24 FEB 2008
DOI: 10.1002/asi.5090150104
Copyright © 1964 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
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Lancaster, F. W. and Mills, J. (1964), Testing indexes and index language devices: The ASLIB cranfield project. Amer. Doc., 15: 4–13. doi: 10.1002/asi.5090150104
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- Issue published online: 24 FEB 2008
- Article first published online: 24 FEB 2008
- Manuscript Received: 17 JUN 1963
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Abstract
Exhaustivity of indexing and specificity of index language are the two basic parameters determining operating efficiency of any retrieval system. File organization is of relatively minor importance.

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