Energy conservation choices for the City of Portland, Oregon: energy information retrieval system. Volume 2

Technical Report · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6700679

Volume 2 sets forth and describes the developmental history as well as the technical accomplishment and design of the non-computerized information retrieval system realized under the aegis of the Portland Energy Conservation Demonstration Project (PECDP). An optical coincidence mechanism, a thesaurus, and an indexing procedure which combine to yield a method to selectively store and retrieve discriminate information in such a fashion whereby that information is readily available in a format acceptable to local government decision makers, the City's capital budgeting process, planning agency personnel, and citizens are described. PECDP's Energy Information Retrieval System was housed in existing library space of the Portland Bureau of Planning and since its establishment, there has been a 500% increase in library use among Planning staff. (MCW)

• Research Organization: Portland Bureau of Planning, OR (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6700679
• Report Number(s): PB-279-780; HUD-PDR-329-2(2)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
291000 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Conservation
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320000 -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990300* -- Information Handling
BUDGETS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
ENERGY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
INDEXES
INFORMATION
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
LIBRARIES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
NORTH AMERICA
OREGON
PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION
PLANNING
USA