DIALOG Information Services - Revision history

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+'''DIALOG''' is a leading online information retrieval service, 1965- .
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+DIALOG started at the Lockheed Corporation in 1965 initiated by [[Roger Kent Summit|Roger Summit]] as part of a RECON project sponsored by the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration|NASA]] and led by him for many years.
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+Timeline at [https://dialoghistory.org/chronology/]
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-  <td> <i>Directory of Business Archives in the US and Canada.</i> SAA, 1980,
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+In 1960, [[Roger Kent Summit|Roger Summit]], a doctoral student at Stanford University, took a summer job at Lockheed Information Sciences Laboratory, where he was assigned to work on problems of information retrieval. Influenced by [[Hans Peter Luhn]] and the ideas of Key Word In Context (KWIC) indexing and Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), he completed a doctoral dissertation on the topic. He encouraged Lockheed to investigate and in 1965 Lockheed charged him lead a design team.
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+Criteria were that the system had to be usable by end users without the intervention of computing staff and it had to be interactive and recursive so that searchers could immediately see their results and modify their queries accordingly. Also, for users, an alphabetical list of searchable terms near a desired term and the number of items in the database containing that term.
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+This design was used in a RECON project for NASA. Remote access was added. Numerous additional resources and customers were added. By 1985 DIALOG had become the most comprehensive online information service in the world, with more than 200 separate databases.
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+== Ownership ==
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+As an organization, DIALOG became "Dialog Information Services, Inc." which was purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp. in  in 1981 it and became "Knight-Ridder Information" in 1987. Purchased by Maid Corp. it became "The Dialog Corp." in 1997 and purchased by Thomson in 2000. ProQuest purchased DIALOG in 2008 then by Clarivate in 2023.[https://clarivate.com/blog/dialog-solutions-becomes-clarivate/]
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+== Further reading ==
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+*''DIALOG History'' [Website]. [https://dialoghistory.org/]
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+*"ProQuest Dialog overview." ProQuest. [https://dialog.proquest.com/professional/help/Dialog_overview.html]
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+*Summit, R. (2023, May 22). ''The origins and early history of DIALOG''. DIALOG History. [https://dialoghistory.org/2023/05/22/the-origins-and-early-history-of-dialog/]

Amandashelton: Added info regarding organization name changes and sources

2023-09-14T17:46:52Z

Added info regarding organization name changes and sources

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	<td valign="Top"> <b> ORGANIZATION: </b> </td>		<td valign="Top"> <b> ORGANIZATION: </b> </td>
	<td> <font size="+1"> DIALOG Information Services </font> </td>		<td> <font size="+1"> DIALOG Information Services, Inc.</font> </td>
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	<td valign="Top"> <b> ACTIVE DATES: </b> </td>		<td valign="Top"> <b> ACTIVE DATES: </b> </td>
	<td> 1965-present: 1965-1988 owned by Lockheed Corporation; named Dialog Information Service in 1982); purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp., and became Knight-Ridder Information, 1988-1997; purchased by Maid Corp., and became The Dialog Corporation, 1997-2000; purchased by Thomson Corp., 2001-present as Dialog Corporation. </td>		<td> 1965-2023 </td>
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	<td valign="Top"> <b> ADDRESS: </b> </td>		<td valign="Top"> <b> ADDRESS: </b> </td>
	<td> ~~Web page address: http://www.dialog.com/~~ </td>		<td> </td>
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	</tr>		</tr><tr><td>'''OTHER INFORMATION:'''</td><td>The DIALOG project started at and was part of Lockheed Corporation from 1965-1987.
	<tr>		As an organization, it was named "Dialog Information Services, Inc." in 1981; purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp. and became "Knight-Ridder Information" in 1987; purchased by Maid Corp. and became "The Dialog Corp." in 1997; purchased by Thomson in 2000; "Dialog" purchased by ProQuest in 2008; "Dialog Solutions" purchased in 2022 and folded into larger Clarivate company in 2023
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			<td>Mishra, V. (2023, August 7). ''Dialog Solutions becomes Clarivate''. Clarivate. https://clarivate.com/blog/dialog-solutions-becomes-clarivate/<br>''ProQuest Dialog overview''. ProQuest. Retrieved September 13, 2023, from https://dialog.proquest.com/professional/help/Dialog_overview.html
			Summit, R. (2023, May 22). ''The origins and early history of DIALOG''. DIALOG History. https://dialoghistory.org/2023/05/22/the-origins-and-early-history-of-dialog/
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Amandashelton at 23:37, 6 September 2023

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	<td> P.O. Box 551, Burbank, CA 91520; William Bendon, Corp. Director of		<td> P.O. Box 551, Burbank, CA 91520; William Bendon, Corp. Director of
	Records Management. </td>		Records Management. </td>

Amandashelton at 01:21, 6 September 2023

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	<td valign="Top"> <b> PERSONS INVOLVED: </b> </td>		<td valign="Top"> <b> PERSONS INVOLVED: </b> </td>
	<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|'''Roger Summit''']]; <b>[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]] database (developed the RECON system for NASA); <b><b>[[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]		<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|'''Roger Summit''']]; <b>[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]]</b> database (developed the RECON system for NASA); <b><b>[[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]

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Amandashelton at 01:20, 6 September 2023

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	<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|'''Roger Summit''']]; <b>[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]] database (developed the RECON system for NASA); <b>[[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]		<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|'''Roger Summit''']]; <b>[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]] database (developed the RECON system for NASA); <b><b>[[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]

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Amandashelton at 01:16, 6 September 2023

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	<td valign="Top"> <b> ACTIVE DATES: </b> </td>		<td valign="Top"> <b> ACTIVE DATES: </b> </td>
	<td> 1965-present: 1965-1988 owned by Lockheed Corporation; named Dialog Information Service in 1982); purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp., and became		<td> 1965-present: 1965-1988 owned by Lockheed Corporation; named Dialog Information Service in 1982); purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp., and became Knight-Ridder Information, 1988-1997; purchased by Maid Corp., and became The Dialog Corporation, 1997-2000; purchased by Thomson Corp., 2001-present as Dialog Corporation. </td>
	Knight-Ridder Information, 1988-1997; purchased by Maid Corp.,

	and became The Dialog Corporation, 1997-2000; purchased by Thomson Corp., 2001-present as Dialog Corporation. </td>
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	LOCATION #2 </b> </td>		LOCATION #2 </b> </td>
	<td> Some early DIALOG files in personal possession of Roger Summit. ~~<br>~~		<td> Some early DIALOG files in personal possession of Roger Summit.
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	<td> 1965-present: 1965-1988 owned by Lockheed Corporation; named Dialog Information Service in 1982); purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp., and became		<td> 1965-present: 1965-1988 owned by Lockheed Corporation; named Dialog Information Service in 1982); purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp., and became
	Knight-Ridder Information, 1988-1997; purchased by Maid Corp.,		Knight-Ridder Information, 1988-1997; purchased by Maid Corp.,

	and became The Dialog Corporation, 1997-2000; purchased by Thomson Corp., 2001-present as Dialog Corporation. </td>		and became The Dialog Corporation, 1997-2000; purchased by Thomson Corp., 2001-present as Dialog Corporation. </td>
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	<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|Roger Summit]]; <b>[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]] database (developed the RECON system for NASA); [[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]		<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|'''Roger Summit''']]; <b>[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]] database (developed the RECON system for NASA); <b>[[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]

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Amandashelton at 01:11, 6 September 2023

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	<td> 1965-present: 1965-1988 owned by Lockheed Corporation; named Dialog		<td> 1965-present: 1965-1988 owned by Lockheed Corporation; named Dialog Information Service in 1982); purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp., and became
	Information Service in 1982); purchased by Knight-Ridder Corp., and became		Knight-Ridder Information, 1988-1997; purchased by Maid Corp.,
	Knight-Ridder Information, 1988-1997~~; &nbsp~~; purchased by Maid Corp.,		and became The Dialog Corporation, 1997-2000; purchased by Thomson Corp., 2001-present as Dialog Corporation. </td>
	and became The Dialog Corporation, 1997-2000; purchased by Thomson Corp.,

	2001-present as Dialog Corporation.~~ ~~ </td>
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	<td> Web page address: http://www.dialog.com/~~ ~~ </td>		<td> Web page address: http://www.dialog.com/ </td>
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	<td valign="Top"> <b> PERSONS INVOLVED: </b> </td>		<td valign="Top"> <b> PERSONS INVOLVED: </b> </td>
	<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|Roger Summit]]; <b>		<td> [[Roger Kent Summit\|Roger Summit]]; <b>[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]] database (developed the RECON system for NASA); [[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]
	[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration\|NASA]]~~</b></a>~~
	database (developed the RECON system for NASA); [[Charles Percy Bourne\|Charles Bourne]]

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