The Intelligent Gateway Computer: Effective access to distributed information resources

Conference · Mon Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6156767

Burton, H D

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.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6156767
• Report Number(s): UCRL-92506; CONF-8506361-1; ON: DE87008750
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
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& Computer Programs-- (1987-1989)
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DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
ON-LINE SYSTEMS