From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!rocheste!emil Newsgroups: net.general Title: Article-I.D.: rocheste.824 Posted: Fri Feb 25 20:45:49 1983 Received: Tue Mar 8 07:56:19 1983 From: Emil.Rainero Why not have each University/Research Center send a list of their technical reports to a central site where they will be collected and then redistributed to all the members. This would enable anyone anywhere to find all relevant technical reports to any particular subject. The format should be agreed upon in advance. It would include: Title Author Institution Date of Publication Keywords etc. Using the inverted database facility of Unix to store bibliographic information about the technical reports would allow a given key word to match the title, author or other fields of the citation. It is fully described in "Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System", M.E. Lesk, Computer Science Technical Report No. 69, Bell Laboratories. What? You didn't know this existed? SEE, WE DESPERATELY NEED THIS SERVICE What I am proposing is used here at the University of Rochester to keep track of all the libraries' technical reports. I am open to any suggestions regarding compilation and format of this database, but I am unfamiliar with inverted databases and would prefer that the compilation be performed by another. I will conduct a survey to see if there is enough interest so please reply to me and not to the net. Short term solution: Title, Author, Institution, Date, Keywords Long term solution: Abstract and hopefully the actual report (don't hold your breathe) Emil Rainero