Intelligent Gateway Computer: Effective Access to Distributed Information Resources

摘要

The Intelligent Gateway Computer, developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Technology Information System, provides ready access to geographically distributed and physically unlike computer-based information resources. Through the Gateway, a user can utilize the variety of resources - such as Lockheed Dialog, ESA-IRS, DARC, and others - without having to learn different access methods and log-ons, and communication protocols. From a single entry point, that subset of textual, numeric, and graphics systems which best meet his needs can be targeted by the Gateway. Retrieval results can be downloaded to a local file and analyzed and reformatted using a number of bibliographic post-processing, mathematical, and statistical routines. For a field such as agriculture, with its wide breadth of subject disciplines and dependence on numerous, disparate information sources, use of a Gateway can greatly facilitate research. (ERA citation 12:042902)