The Technical Information Project (TIP) was an early database project focused on the scholarly physics literature. Its "most unique feature" was its use bibliographic coupling, a novel way to search for related documents.[1] The TIP included over 25,000 records.
Meyer Mike Kessler began developing the TIP at MIT in April 1962, with the support of a grant by the National Science Foundation. The project's objective was to create a system that could "perform automatic search operations on bibliographic data" using bibliographic coupling.[2][3][1] Some of the innovations in TIP included the use of wild cards, and boolean searching.
Transfer to the American Institute of Physics[edit]
Around 1968, responsibility for the TIP was transferred to the American Institute of Physics, under the direction of Dr. H. William Koch. In connection with the transfer, the Institute received a $149,000 NSF grant meant to address problems "produced by the rapid growth of the published [physics] literature, which threatens a breakdown in communications among scientists". The Institute aimed to create a nationwide "physics information network" by adding indexing information to the TIP, and using it to automatically produce classification indexes for its 38 physics journals, as part of a planned "National Physics Information System".[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kent, Allen; Lancour, Harold; Daily, Jay E. (1 September 1971). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Vol. 12. CRC Press. p. 481. ISBN 978-0-8247-2012-4.
- ^ MIT TIP Expands To Show Utilization Potentialities. Science Information News (Report). National Science Foundation. December 1966 – January 1967.
- ^ a b "National Science Foundation Support Goes To Promote Development of National Physics Information System, Liaison Between Disciplines". Scientific Information Notes. 10 (1): 1–2. February–March 1968.
- ^ Alt, Franz L.; Herschman, Arthur (1968). Plans for a National Physics Information System. Information Division, American Institute of Physics. pp. 19–20.
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- Chronology of Information Science
- Bourne, C.P. and Hahn, T. B. A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
- Kessler, M. M. (March 1965). "The MIT technical information project". Physics Today. 18 (3): 28–36. Bibcode:1965PhT....18c..28K. doi:10.1063/1.3047262. The article PDF
- The Technical Information Project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. 1966. ISSN 0069-4789. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- Churchhouse, Bob. "Information Retrieval". www.chilton-computing.org.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- Backer, S.; Valko, E.I.; Liang, M. (October 1967). "The Problems of Textile Information Retrieval1". Textile Research Journal. 37 (10): 880–894. doi:10.1177/004051756703701008. S2CID 60790487.
- Lingenberg, Walter (1 January 1969). "L'emploi des ordinateurs dans les bibliothèques de la République fédérale allemande". Bulletin des bibliothèques de France (in French). Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- Progress of the United States Government in Scientific & Technical Communications. Committee on Scientific and Technical Information, Federal Council for Science and Technology. 1965.
- Becker, Joseph (1973). The First Book of Information Science. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Information Services. pp. 172–174.