Definition of factual information
Sources of factual information

The documentation differentiates :

• bibliographical data ;

• full-text data ;

• factual data.

• Bibliographic data

Bibliographic data identifies documents of various types (journals, articles, patents, theses, reports, conference proceedings, books, audiovisuals, etc.) whose original publications are scattered throughout the world. To identify the documents of interest to a given subject, the user has :

• cataloguing (title, authors, original publication source reference) ;

• indexing using keywords [free language, lexicons, thesauri (alphabetical list of standard words with their hierarchical relationships) or thematic...