PADIS - its past achievements and future directions

Abstract

A documentation and information system is no more than a collection of recorded communications of human knowledge as contained in books, learned journals, government publications., etc. and which have been processed and organized for the use and scientists, humanists, scholars, professional men, policy makers government officials; etc. In short it can be described as more or less a traditional library whose value has been enhanced and transformed by means of the computer. The computer has made it possible for data relating to these recorded communications to be made available almost instantly by pushing a button. Computer technology and space technology have helped in. no small measure to make universally available to those who wish the whole stock of human knowledge without which scientific and technological innovation is hardly possible.