Dialog
The online information retrieval system DIALOG is created by Roger Summit in 1967 and became in 1972 the world's first commercial online service.
Literature:
Bourne, C. P. & Hahn, T. B. (2003). A History of Online Information Services 1963-1976. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Hahn, T. B. (1998). Text Retrieval Online: Historical Perspective on Web Search Engines. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-98/hahn.html
Links:
Dialog blue sheets: http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/
Dialog classic: http://www.dialogclassic.com/
Dialog database catalog: http://support.dialog.com/publications/dbcat/
"Dialindex" (File 411). (See description in Dialog bluesheet: http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0411.html ).
Dialog Pocket guide: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/pocketguide/
Thomsen-Dialog: http://www.dialog.com/
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 17-03-2006