The crux of the retrieval problem is that selecting documents to read grows ever more difficult, and new techniques are continually needed. - Brian Campbell Vickery

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The crux of the retrieval problem is that selecting documents to read grows ever more difficult, and new techniques are continually needed.

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About Brian Campbell Vickery

Brian Campbell Vickery (September 11, 1918 – October 17, 2009) was a British information scientist and classification researcher, and Professor and director at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983.

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In science there are uses many classifications of entities - plants, animals, rocks, soils, stars, diseases, occupations, and so on. In these taxonomies a classification must display genetic relations - for example, an evolutionary family tree of animal species - but its prime purpose is to aid in the identification of entities... Classification enables us to select, from the whole universe of known entities, the one that best matches one newly encountered.

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