Saving and accessing the old IR literature

ABSTRACT

This short paper describes the beginnings of a project to digitize some of the older literature in the information retrieval field. So far 14 of the older reports, such as the Cranfield reports and ISR reports have been scanned, along with Karen Sparck Jones's Information Retrieval Experiment book. The PDF versions of these are available from the SIGIR web site, which includes a new \museum" of information retrieval that allows searching of this material and provides room for exhibits of historic interest. The paper finishes with some thoughts for future work on making more of our IR literature available for searching.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval

Additional Classification:
  A. General Literature
  A.1 INTRODUCTORY AND SURVEY

  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.8 Database applications
          Subjects: Data mining

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Theory