Abstract

FALCATO, Pedro. The Work Team on Databases Queries of Caicyt: An Argentine Precedent in the Pre-History of the Scientific and Technological Information Search on the Internet. Part 2: Development, Activities and Legacy. Inf. cult. soc. [online]. 2014, n.30, pp.35-58. ISSN 1851-1740.

This article deals with the development, activities and legacy of the workgroup for the Information Retrieval in Remote Databases by means of Terminal project, which met in CAICYT (Centro Argentino de Información Científica y Tecnológica) between 1981 and 1987. It addresses issues such as the professional development of its members, changes in the membership, user training activities, ways of conducting searches, economic problems, strengths and limitations of the service. Finally, some aspects of the foregoing that may be useful at present are reviewed.

Keywords : CAICYT; Information search and retrieval; Online databases; Information Science; Professional training; User education; Fee-based services; Argentina.

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