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Information Retrieval In The Office For Effective Communication, Herbert Josef Schwoerer Sep 1985

Information Retrieval In The Office For Effective Communication, Herbert Josef Schwoerer

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The office worker of tomorrow, who is very likely to be an 'information-worker', will be heavily involved with communication of any kind. Effective communication, however, can only be guaranteed if the user is in control of information overload.

OIRS, the Office Information Retrieval System, designed and developed as a Master Thesis, is an approach to support the office worker in storing, maintaining, and retrieving textual information. By providing the user with a tool to impose a self-defined and self-maintained structure upon information or references to it, information overload, which is caused by lack of information about information, can be decreased. …