Excerpt from Information Handling in the National Standard Reference Data System
Thus, the present report is organized as follows. The next section summarizes the main results. The remaining portions of section 1 describe the organization and functions of N srds to the ex tent needed for our discussion of the information system. A more complete description has been given elsewhere,1 and readers familiar with it may bypass these sections. Next, section 2 develops the ultimate computer-based system as far as our res ent ideas go. This is followed in section 3 y a description of the system envisaged for the next few years, and finally by a few comments on the transition between the two.