Zbanatsca O. Archival information and search systems : expansion of searching possibilities (1991-2008).

The thesis is devoted to research of the archival information and search systems and expansion of their searching possibilities by the improvement of information and search languages. The state of research of some components of the archival information and search systems and sources base of research is analysed. Theoretical and methodological bases are grounded, notion apparatus is specified. Typology of information and search languages is made in the context of archival information and search systems. The evolution of main types of information and search languages is researched and the typical features are found. The tasks of the archival institutions concerning the expansion of searching possibilities of the archival information and search systems in the conditions of informatization are outlined. The models of information and search languages of keywords, the models of indexing, classification and description are built, their comparative analysis is carried out. Experimental verification of efficiency of descriptive information and search languages is conducted. It is offered to use the complex of information and search languages, with macro-, midi-, mini- and microthesaurus as the terminology basis.