Preparation of an Arctic Bibliography Database

北极书目是北极地区从最早的著作到1975年的文献的综合指南。参考书目包括该地区的历史、语言、民族、考古学、人类学、工业、定居点、探险、地质学、采矿和矿物、古生物学、气候和地理方面的出版物。所引用的出版物包括原始资料、编年史、日记和居住在那里的人的记录。所有的来源都是由参考书目的编纂者看到的，它包括摘要和文献可以参考的图书馆的名称。总之，参考书目是北极研究的重要工具。目前，只有少数几家图书馆可以查阅北极书目，在当前的研究中有被遗忘的危险。这个项目是制作一个电子版本的北极参考书目。通过这种方式，《参考书目》的内容将被完整地保存下来，并可纳入包含北极其他数据的光盘中，也可通过互联网进行检索。将确保永久访问参考书目。该数据库将以简化版的UNISIST参考手册格式提供，这是一种没有标头的标签数据格式，非常适合在今天的微型计算机上进行处理。它也将以MARC格式提供，这是美国大多数在线图书馆目录使用的格式，并在其他国家广泛使用。与将印刷书目转换为数据库一样，生成的文件将比印刷原件更容易使用，并提供更多的访问点。摘要和标题中的所有单词都可以在数据库中搜索到。根据所涉及的搜索软件，数据中任何地方的所有单词都可以搜索，并且可以使用统计方法来确定相关性。

ABSTRACT The Arctic Bibliography is comprehensive guide to the literature of the Arctic region from the earliest writings through 1975. The Bibliography includes publications on the history, languages, peoples, archaeology, anthropology, industry, settlements, exploration expeditions, geology, mining and minerals, paleontology, climate, and geography of the region. Among the publications cited are original sources, the chronicles, diaries and accounts of the people who lived there. All the sources were seen by the compilers of the Bibliography and it includes abstracts and the names of the libraries where the documents can be consulted. In short, the Bibliography is an important tool for Arctic research. Presently, sets of the Arctic Bibliography can be consulted in only a few libraries, and it is in danger of being forgotten in current research. This project is to produce an electronic version of the Arctic Bibliography. By this means, the contents of the Bibliography will be preserved intact, and can be incorporated into CDs containing other data on the Arctic, and also be made searchable over the Internet. Permanent access to the Bibliography will be assured. The database would be available in a simplified version of the UNISIST Reference Manual format, a tag-data format without headers, which is well-suited to processing on today's microcomputers. It would also be available in the MARC format, which is the format used in the majority of the online library catalogs in the United States, and widely used in other countries. As is common with conversions of a print bibliography to a database, the resulting file would be easier to use and afford more access points than the print original. All words in the abstracts and titles would be searchable in the database. Depending on the search software involved, all words anywhere in the data could be made searchable, and searching using statistical methods to determine relevancy could be employed.