Communicating With Online Catalogs and Other Retrieval Systems: The Need for a Standard Command Language Available to Purchase

Some research has indicated that interacting with a computer through a natural language is not easier, more effective, or even preferred by new users of a system, when compared with menu and command interfaces. However, command‐driven searches would be facilitated, as users move from system to system, if there existed a common command language. Proposed standards for a “Common Command Language for Online, Interactive Information Retrieval” have been developed by NISO Committee G, and are now being reviewed for adoption.