CONSTRUCTION AND USAGE OF CLASSIFIED SCHEDULES AND GENERIC FEATURES IN CO‐ORDINATE INDEXING

Abstract
The purpose of this article is to examine the hypothesis that ‘classified schedules of features, with specific/generic relationships, are of value in feature-card indexing.’ The data in support of the hypothesis has been drawn from experience gained in the construction and use of a feature-card index designed for anaesthetics literature. This index has already been described in detail elsewhere; but to make this article comprehensible it is necessary after outlining the problem of the information explosion in medicine, and in anaesthesia in particular, to give a brief account of the development and structure of this feature-card index.

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