Selective Dissemination of Information – Technology of Information Support of Scientific Research

Abstract

A highly organized form of information support for interdisciplinary research is the selective dissemination of information (SDI) technology. The selection of information is a process of extracting the most valuable documents from the information flow, their individual parts or factual information. That is why the successful strategy for information service of scientists is the introduction of a system of selective dissemination of information. The authors of the article improved the procedure of processing, providing information requests and giving answers in the system of selective dissemination of information. The Information Support of the Research service proposed by the authors is based on SDI. The technological cycle of user servicing in the system of SDI is represented by a few algorithms in the article. An algorithm for the implementation of SDI at the modern stage is presented. The means of individual and group informing of users and source search algorithm in library information systems are introduced. For the first time, it is proposed to use an ontological approach to refine the information search to expand the ability to search relevant documents using keywords. As the use of a set of keywords is based on any information retrieval, an ontology is a new intellectual means for obtaining information, a contemporary method for representing and processing knowledge and queries.