Novel approaches are needed to facilitate the dissemination and utilization of the increased information produced in the earthquake hazard mitigation field. This project will design, develop, and produce a prototype data storage and retrieval system which will accommodate pages of text, line drawings, and continuous tone images. The system will accept search requests in the form of a sequence of keywords which can be associated with one another using logical connectives such as "and", "or", "but not", etc., and will produce in response to each request, a list of the accession numbers, or possibly page and word numbers, of those documents satisfying the request. The reading system will then present to the user on a high resolution display, an image of the required documents, a page at a time, for review. Those pages which appear to be of interest can then be printed on a suitable printer. This program will use current technology, or minor extensions thereof, to create a system which will meet all of the above requirements, have a low system cost, and allow a large amount of information to be disseminated very inexpensively.
