01598cz 2200169n 4500 sh2001005707 DLC 20010607110217.0 010504i| anannbabn |a ana c sh2001005707 StEdNL eng DLC Clumps (Information retrieval) g Information retrieval Work cat: New review of information and library research, vol. 5 (1999): p. 79-97 (Title cited: Expectations, communications and resistance in the management of eLib clumps projects) p. 99-105 (Title cited: Guiding the user to relevant information within a clump, with particular focus on an early version of the CAIRNS dynamic clumping service) OCLC, May 2, 2001 (Title usage: The use of the theory of clumps for information retrieval) ALA gloss. of lib. and info. sci., 1983 (clump - in an associative retrieval system, a grouping of terms based on the frequency with which they occur together in the same works) Ariadne WWW, Issue 18 (Dec. 1998): main articles (Hybrids and clumps - a clump is an aggregation of catalogues (or other databases). The point of a clump is to enable large-scale resource discovery - so that users can search for resources they want across a number of different catalogues. Clumps fall into two categories: physical and virtual clumps. The first of these ... is a union catalogue which brings together the data from a number of different sources and holds it in one place. Virtual clumps are not centrally managed; they are distributed databases which can be aggregated for the purposes of a search)