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- MIR TUTORIAL TWO
- SECRETS OF DATA PREPARATION
- Summary Table of Contents
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- 0. MIR TUTORIAL TWO Table of contents
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- 1. Planning data content and form
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- 1.1 Byte stream standard format
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- New record markers
- Field markers
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- 1.2 Uncompressed data
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- 1.3 Compressed data
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- 1.4 The data summary option
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- 1.5 Pointers
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- Data record offsets
- As-is where-is data
- Pointerless records
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- 1.6 Parameters
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- 1.7 Multimedia data
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- Addresses
- Display/audio function
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- 2. The unit of search
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- 2.1 Advantages of small records
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- 2.2 Advantages of large records
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- 2.3 User-controllable search units
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- 2.4 Visible fields
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- 3. Hidden fields
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- 4. Fixed format versus flexible display
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- 5. Tables
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- 6. Standardized pre-processing tools
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- 6.1 REPLACE1
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- 7. A simple example - Text with ASCII markup
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- 8. A fixed record length example
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- 9. Writing specialized pre-processors
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- 10. The Integerizing Option
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- 10.1 Compression
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- 10.2 Reducing resources needed for inversion
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- 10.3 Compressed integer format
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- 10.4 Integerizing software