Design and Implementation of Information Retrieval System for Laboratory Equipments
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2016
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Journal of Mathematics Association of Nigeria, ABACUS
Abstract
Getting information relating to user's search criteria on equipment within a University
laboratory has posed many challenges since there is no specific system to serve this purpose. It is
difficult to handle the whole system manually. The aim of this paper is therefore to design and
implement a web-based information retrieval system for University Laboratory equipment. This
system offers a powerful internet-based search engine for locating and identifying equipment
within a University laboratory while eliminating all unrelated content that a general-purpose
search engine would retrieve. The method used involved collecting information needed from the
technologist on various equipment in the laboratory and inserted into the retrieval system using
SQL server to make query on the database to manage the data and a PHP programming language
was used as the server-side scripting language for establishing an efficient querying of
information from the database. Java scripting was also used as client-side scripting language for
the purpose of adding more interactions to the proposed system. The developed system having
been evaluated and assessed thoroughly was found to be efficient, easy to use for locating
laboratory equipment in a University.
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Information retrieval; Laboratory Equipment; Web-based; Civil Engineering Equipment