Il controllo e la gestione dei periodici con il sistema conversazionale REPER

The conversational system REPER for on-line serials control is described. The REPER system, an experimental product presently operating at Istituto di Elaborazione dell' Informazione, C.N. R. , Pisa , consists in an application package operating upon the data base management system RESP, also developed at I.E.I. In this paper, the basic design choices are motivated, as operating features, accession keys, input data recording ,data retrieval. The algorithms for recording issue data and for claiming missing issue are described in some details, in order to evidence the inter actions between t he application package and the generalized data base management system RESP. Some working session examples follow.