To browse Academia. The evolution of citation indexing is traced from its origins in computer printouts to the contemporary systems encapsulated by the Web of Science. This development narrative emphasizes the historical significance of various contributors in the information science field, focusing on their efforts to document and promote collective understanding of citation practices, systems, and technologies. The paper reflects on conferences and collaborative initiatives aimed at preserving the heritage of science information systems and suggests avenues for future research.
Bibliography processing systems are important to the production of scholarly and technical documents. While the existing systems are a significant aid to authors, their designs are not sufficient to handle the demands that have arisen with their continued use.
These demands include larger bibliographic databases, sharing of databases among multiple authors, integration with document editors, and the desire for new features. The added features were a reference annotation facility, support of formsbased queries for automatic citation, and an enhanced reference inspection facility supporting WYSIWYG display of references.
The design and implementation of the three features are discussed in detail. Their relationship to other bibliography processing tools is discussed. This article suggests that the ideas and practices em-fundamental importance in the development of what we braced by the term ''documentation,'' introduced by Paul now call information science. Otlet and his colleagues to describe the work of the In-The Office and the Institute were closely related orgaternational Institute of Bibliography later FID that they nizations.
The Office was subsidized by, and was legally set up in Brussels in , constituted a new ''discursive responsible to, the Belgian government and functioned formation,'' to echo Foucault. While today's special terminology of information science was not then in use, essentially as the administrative center for the Institute. They study and research-and the technical systems and prowere created to support new systems to exploit the potenfessional activities in which it is anchored-were implicit tialities inherent in the information technology of the in and operationalized by what was created within the International Institute of Bibliography in and the time.
