DOMESTIC (Development of Minicomputers in an Envi ronment of Scientific and Technological Information Cen ters) is a joint Israeli-German project for the application of minicomputers in information storage and retrieval. The DOMESTIC software package includes functions for online creation and updating of inhouse databases; assimila tion of external databases; setting up, running and reformu lating online database searches; viewing search results; printing the output in selected formats; and various tasks associated with the acquisition, cataloging and circulation phases of information-center activities. At present (June 1980) the DOMESTIC database management system and the information-retrieval functions have been programmed and development is underway on the functions for online input, database maintenance, the print generator and library management.
Since 1970, the Israeli National Center of Scientific and Technological Information (COSTI) has provided a com puterized SDI service to academic, research, industrial and governmental users in Israel. The system's uniqueness is that it is run on a minicomputer (a PDP 11/70). Six databases are offered as of March 1981: Chemical Abstracts Search, COMPENDEX, INSPEC, Science Citation Index Search, AGRIS and U.S. Government Reports An nouncements. Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) will be added soon. Current editions of the database tapes are run against personal profiles in order to retrieve items of interest to individual clients. This paper surveys the process of executing SDI at COSTI, focusing on search-profile construction and update techniques and on the SDI production process.
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