@article{9393fbc9bd554a9b9d5bf29ca2903a76,
title = "THE Heritage Of Early Fc In Document Reference Retrieval Systems, 1920–19691",
abstract = "Revisits the heritage of faceted classification (FC) beginning with an examination of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) in its early manifestations and the groundwork established by international documentalist groups. Early document retrieval experimentation with FC during the intensive period of system design, testing and evaluation in the 1950s and 1960s is discussed, as well as the rise of an international discourse community that sought to augment and extend the reach of FC through system implementations. A list of acronyms employed in the article is given in an appendix.",
author = "{La Barre}, Kathryn",
note = "Funding Information: In 1955, Brownson attended a meeting of the Scientific and Technical Division of the SLA Convention in Detroit where Cyril Cleverdon made an urgent plea for evaluative testing of indexing systems. Brownson encouraged Cleverdon to submit a grant proposal to the NSF to undertake such tests. After review by Aslib (Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, created in 1924 in the UK) this proposal was submitted in 1956, and funding was granted.31 Funding Information: Prototypes of new kinds of general document storage and retrieval systems were developed and tested in academic and nonacademic settings throughout the 1950s. These early systems had features such as free text searching, online thesauri, monitoring satisfaction and use patterns. Faceted approaches to the creation of retrieval devices were not unusual during this period as developments continued toward the implementation of working online retrieval systems.28 These developments depended to a large degree on the availability of government funding. The NSF, for example, had been established in 1950 to {\textquoteleft}foster the interchange of scientific information among scientists in the United States and foreign countries{\textquoteright}. From 1952 onward, NSF funding began to flow from the Office of Science Information Services (OSIS) directly to early research projects that would {\textquoteleft}make scientific information available{\textquoteright}.29 Five programmes were established by OSIS, each with a programme director and staff. The NFS{\textquoteright}s Documentation Research Project (DRP) was the programme, under the watchful eye of programme director Helen Brownson, directly responsible for funding many of the tests of faceted systems. With a mandate to support {\textquoteleft}projects of a fundamental or general nature that may produce new insights, knowledge or techniques applicable to information systems and services{\textquoteright}, this programme expanded considerably after 1956.30 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2007, Edinburgh University Press. All rights reserved.",
year = "2007",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1179/174581607x205653",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "23",
pages = "129--149",
journal = "Library and Information History",
issn = "1758-3489",
publisher = "Maney Publishing",
number = "2",
}