Investigation into the Retrieval Indexing and Searching System

摘要

A study was made of the Federal Aviation Information Retrieval System (FAIRS), which serves diverse information needs of the Agency's technical and administration personnel. The FAIRS was developed to operational capacity by work on four major tasks: (1) Assigning descriptors and identifiers to reports to prepare them for subsequent retrieval. (2) Expanding, developing, and updating the system's vocabulary: the Thesaurus of FAA Descriptors. (3) Implementing the technical reports into the system. (4) Investigating the retrieval effectiveness of the system. (Author)