We discuss two techniques used to characterize bibliographic records based on their similarity to and relationship with the contents of the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) databases. The first method has been used to classify input text as being relevant to one or more subject areas based on an analysis of the frequency distribution of its individual words. The second method has been used t...

Acknowledgements Many people have assisted me in carrying out this project. Firstly I would like to thank my academic supervisors, Associate Professor Peter Christen and Dr. Qing Wang for their ideas, support, encouragement and feedback. I would also like to thank Dr. Paul Wong from the ANU Research Office for providing me with a place to work and helpful advice on the project itself and the SC...

Medical informatics became a medical specialty during the last years and this is evidenced by a great amount of journal articles regarding the subject published worldwide. We compared the presentation of Medical Informatics in two different bibliographic databases: MEDLINE and LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature on the Health Sciences). Previous studies described how Medical Informa...

Many online databases are available on the Internet, each one with its own access procedures and a special user interface and query language. The Z39.50 protocol standard offers a solution to this situation of diversity and lacking interoperability. However, the majority of online databases does not yet support Z39.50. In this paper, we describe a system that interfaces online bibliographic dat...

A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc. In contrast to library catalog entries, a large proportion of the bibliographic records in bibliographic databases describe analyt...

This poster presents a hash key for bibliographic records called bibkey. It is shown how bibkey can be used to detect duplicates and to map similar bibliographic records among distributed databases.