Technical Information Project

The Technical Information Project (TIP) was an early database project focused on the scholarly physics literature. Its "most unique feature" was its use bibliographic coupling, a novel way to search for related documents. The TIP included over 25,000 records.

Meyer Mike Kessler began developing the TIP at MIT in April 1962, with the support of a grant by the National Science Foundation. The project's objective was to create a system that could "perform automatic search operations on bibliographic data" using bibliographic coupling.{{cite report |title=MIT TIP Expands To Show Utilization Potentialities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYkZWa3e7WMC&dq=%22Technical+Information+Project%22&pg=RA15-PA12 |website=Science Information News |publisher=National Science Foundation |language=en |date=December 1966 – January 1967}}{{cite journal |title=National Science Foundation Support Goes To Promote Development of National Physics Information System, Liaison Between Disciplines |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8Nik-EJf-sC&dq=%22Technical+Information+Project%22&pg=PA1 |journal=Scientific Information Notes |date= February–March 1968 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=1–2}}{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Kent |first1=Allen |last2=Lancour |first2=Harold |last3=Daily |first3=Jay E. |title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science |date=1 September 1971 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8247-2012-4 |pages=481 |volume=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RO-SH0PBzAC&dq=%22Technical+Information+Project%22&pg=RA2-PT60 |language=en}} Some of the innovations in TIP included the use of wild cards, and boolean searching.

Transfer to the American Institute of Physics

Around 1968, responsibility for the TIP was transferred to the American Institute of Physics, under the direction of Dr. H. William Koch. In connection with the transfer, the Institute received a $149,000 NSF grant meant to address problems "produced by the rapid growth of the published [physics] literature, which threatens a breakdown in communications among scientists". The Institute aimed to create a nationwide "physics information network" by adding indexing information to the TIP, and using it to automatically produce classification indexes for its 38 physics journals, as part of a planned "National Physics Information System".{{cite book |last1=Alt |first1=Franz L. |last2=Herschman |first2=Arthur |title=Plans for a National Physics Information System |date=1968 |publisher=Information Division, American Institute of Physics |pages=19–20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhgLAQAAMAAJ&q=%22technical+information+project%22 |language=en}}

References

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Bourne, C.P. and Hahn, T. B. A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
{{cite journal |last1=Kessler |first1=M. M. |title=The MIT technical information project |journal=Physics Today |date=March 1965 |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=28–36 |doi=10.1063/1.3047262 |bibcode=1965PhT....18c..28K |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/18/3/28/424671/The-MIT-technical-information-projectThe-model-of}} [https://pubs.aip.org/physicatoday/article-pdf/18/3/28/8262975/28_1_online.pdf The article PDF]
{{cite conference |title=The Technical Information Project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |journal=Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing |date=1966 |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/3684 |access-date=6 May 2023 |language=en |issn=0069-4789}}
{{cite web |last1=Churchhouse |first1=Bob |title=Information Retrieval |url=http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/applications/cocoa/p011.htm |website=www.chilton-computing.org.uk |access-date=6 May 2023}}
{{cite journal |last1=Backer |first1=S. |last2=Valko |first2=E.I. |last3=Liang |first3=M. |title=The Problems of Textile Information Retrieval1 |journal=Textile Research Journal |date=October 1967 |volume=37 |issue=10 |pages=880–894 |doi=10.1177/004051756703701008|s2cid=60790487 }}
{{cite web |last1=Lingenberg |first1=Walter |title=L'emploi des ordinateurs dans les bibliothèques de la République fédérale allemande |url=https://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-1969-03-0105-003 |website=Bulletin des bibliothèques de France |access-date=6 May 2023 |language=fr |date=1 January 1969}}
{{cite book |title=Progress of the United States Government in Scientific & Technical Communications |date=1965 |publisher=Committee on Scientific and Technical Information, Federal Council for Science and Technology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tUct6u3yrmEC&dq=%22Technical+Information+Project%22&pg=PA30 |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Becker |first1=Joseph |title=The First Book of Information Science |date=1973 |publisher=U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Information Services |pages=172–174 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqgaAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Technical+Information+Project%22&pg=PA172 |language=en}}

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