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Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000300080001-2 C. (U) Keyword System Application (U) For the purposes of this study, the articles were sorted ac- cording to (1) the six major keyword headings, only, for the presenta- tion of data pertaining to all countries (cf, Section 3, "Data" below); and (2) further subtopic classifications for a chosen subset of the Free-World countries (cf, Section I, "Introduction" above). Table 6 provides the operative definitions for the major keywords and their respective subtopics. i In addition to query capability on subtopics within a given major topic, combinations of major and subtopic keywords may be utilized across topics to satisfy relatively specific query requirements. For example, a keyword combination of "Remote Action," "Micro," "Reliability/ Screening," and "Physiological Correlates" would typically select out articles from the data base that dealt with experiments in random-number generator psychokinesis, during which aspects of the subject's physio- logical state (e.g., galvanic skin response) were monitored. (U) In conclusion, there are three principal advantages to the current design of the keywording system in particular, and the DBMS in general, in that they allow (1) continual expansion of data and modes of data classification; (2) "horizontal" surveying capability across, for example, many countries or topics; and (3) "vertical" in-depth surveying capability through increasingly finer topic discriminators« Approved For Release 2000/08/10 1 1a-RDP96-00787R000300080001-2