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A full-text database (or complete-text database) is a database that contains the full text of books, dissertations, journals, magazines, newspapers or other textual documents.[1][1] It differs from bibliographic databases, which typically contain only bibliographic metadata and sometimes abstracts, and from other non-bibliographic databases such as directories and numeric databases.[2][3][2][3]

One of the earliest systems of this type was IBM STAIRS, introduced in 1973.[4]

Full-text databases became more widespread around 1990, when advances in computer storage and processing made large-scale text storage and retrieval more practical.[1] Two main categories are often distinguished: extensions of traditional bibliographic database systems into full-text systems (for example, on hosts such as BRS, Dialog, LexisNexis, and Westlaw) and Internet-based full-text systems, which are typically documented using search engines or structured document formats such as XML.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Salton, Gerard; McGill, Michael J. (1983). Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. McGraw Hill.
  2. ^ a b Manning, Christopher; Raghavan, Prabhakar; Schütze, Hinrich (2008). An Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ Baeza-Yates, Ricardo; Ribeiero-Neto, Berthier (1999). Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley.

Bibliography

  • Baeza-Yates, Ricardo; Ribeiro-Neto, Berthier (1999). Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley.
  • Manning, Christopher D.; Raghavan, Prabhakar; Schütze, Hinrich (2008). Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press.
  • Salton, Gerard; Buckley, Christopher (1983). Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. McGraw-Hill.
  • Silberschatz, Avi; Korth, Henry F.; Sudarshan, S. (2019). Database System Concepts. McGraw-Hill.
  • Tenopir, Carol & Ro, Jung Soon (1990). Full Text Databases. New York: Greenwood Press.