THEORY AND DESIGN OF SERIAL HOLDING STATEMENTS IN COMPUTER-BASED SERIALS SYSTEMS |
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| Abstract: | Natural language and encoded character-string types of holding statements are described, together with views of the precision or specificity of holdings information. Components of holding statements, that is, natural language identifiers, issue identification data, and date labels, set the scene for examining general serials system holdings considerations. An example of a scheme developed in the course of research by the author at the University of Minnesota is used to point out how internal representations of complex character-strings of holding statement data can be given a structure permitting a high degree of automatic manipulation at the character level while still preserving a translated natural language in data display. |
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