information storage and retrieval

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• Automated Storage and Retrieval System — image showing the inside of an ASRS at the Defense Visual Information Center which is used for the storage of media items such as film canisters.] Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (often referred to as ASRS or AS/RS) refers to a variety of …   Wikipedia

• Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System — noun relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature • Syn: ↑MEDLARS • Instance Hypernyms: ↑relational database …   Useful english dictionary

• Information retrieval — This article is about information retrieval in general. For the fictional government department, see Brazil (film). Information retrieval (IR) is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for… …   Wikipedia

• Information science — Not to be confused with Information theory. Contents 1 Introduction 2 A multitude of information sciences? 3 Definitions of information science 4 History …   Wikipedia

• information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, esp. involving computer storage and retrievals. * * * Discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring information. It attempts to bring… …   Universalium

• American Society for Information Science and Technology — The American Society for Information Science and Technology (also referred to as ASIST or ASIS T) is an organization of information professionals. Established in 1937, the organization sponsors an annual conference and publishes proceedings from… …   Wikipedia

• information science — n. the science dealing with the efficient collection, storage, and retrieval of information …   English World dictionary

• information processing — Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer based operations. Information processing consists of locating and capturing information, using software to… …   Universalium

• retrieval — retrieve re‧trieve [rɪˈtriːv] verb [transitive] 1. COMPUTING to get back information that has been stored in a computer: • The application stores and retrieves data according to the user s requirements. • To retrieve …   Financial and business terms

• information theory — the mathematical theory concerned with the content, transmission, storage, and retrieval of information, usually in the form of messages or data, and esp. by means of computers. [1945 50] * * * ▪ mathematics Introduction       a mathematical… …   Universalium

• retrieval — [[t]rɪtri͟ːv(ə)l[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT The retrieval of information from a computer is the process of getting it back. ...electronic storage and retrieval systems. 2) N UNCOUNT The retrieval of something is the process of getting it back from a… …   English dictionary