INFORMATION INTEGRATION PROJECT
OF THE LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY -—
LIVERMORE PROGRAM ON MAN-MADE RADIATION
IN THE BIOSPHERE
ARTHUR R. TAMPLIN and JASON L. MINKLER
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California,
Livermore, California
ABSTRACT
The mission of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory—Livermore program is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the implication of
radionuclide releases into the biosphere. The Information Integration
Project was established as an integral partofthis program. In essence,
the purpose of this project is to collect, collate, and analyze the exist-
ing worldwide literature on fallout and its transfer through the biosphere into man.
Thus this effort can be described as an attempt to facilitate the
solution of the mission problems in the shortest period of time with
optimum utilization of personnel. It is intended that the project will
accomplish this goal by allowing us to complementrather than dupli-
cate current and past research pertinent to the overall problem.
To proceed as expeditiously as possible with the literature survey
and analysis, we developed an information-retrieval system as a part
of the Information Integration Project. The scientific-literature ex-
plosion is a most important national problem. In this respect our
experience indicates that information systems are a problem for the
scientist and not just for the librarian and that these systems should
be manned by scientists who are actively working on the various prob-
lems with which the system is concerned. Unless this is so, the system
will most likely not be properly problem oriented (classification will
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