IIW History 1948-1958

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2) the establishment in Paris, as an aid t o the publisher of the Bulletin, of complete files of specialised \"\'elcling reviews and the more important periodicals dealing partly \rith " ·elding, each delegate arranging that the publisher of the Bulletin should receive regularly his country's revie\\·s; 3) the preparation of rules relating to the drafting of abstracts; these deal in particular with the principles governing the choice of documents to be abs– tracted , the method used and the length of the abstracts in relation to the type of document and according to ·whether it is a n original article, a reproduction, a translation, et c., the annotations and references, indexing, conditions for dis– patch of abstracts t o the publisher, et c. In so far as the criteria for the choice of documents t o be abst racted are conce rned, mention should be made of the work of the Commission at the Florence assembly in 1954, at which the following conclusions were reached : the delegates on the Commission are responsible for deciding upon the value of the articles to be abstract ed, both from the t echnical point of view and from that of information for the less specialised reader; they are free t o reject articles which neither contain technical information likely to be of use t o specialist s nor general information of particular value; they also decide upon the advisability of abstracting a rticles containing info rmati on about new processes, the repeat ed publication of which , for purely commercial purposes, considerably reduces their documenta ry value. In cert ain border-line cases, the title onl y of the article is indicated \\' ith , possibly, a line summari ing its contents. In addition, the Commission decided at Essen in Jul y 1957 that the wo rding of the abstract should emphasize, \\·here necessary, the basic subject matter of the corresponding document; for inst a·nce, « research », « design », « practical applica– tion », « economic study »; 4) the preparation, improvement and the keeping up to elate of the Classi– fication Table of the Bulletin; the revision of this Table, \\·hich ent ailed a considerable amount of \\·ork , has been necessitated by the evolution uf 11·ekling and of the t erminology of welding. A new draft Table, entirely revised and including two alphabetical indices, in French and E nglish , of all the subj ect s dealt "·ith in the Table and containing synonymous terms, has b een prepared by the publisher of the Bulletin and the Chairman of the Commission. After consideration of the draft by working group A of the Commission, the Governing Council , at Essen in July 1957, approved the publication of t his ne"· Table "·hich has been in use since the beginning of 1958; 5) work on the presentation of the Bulletin \Yith a vie\r to achieving t he fo llowing objectives : a) the possibility of cutting out each extract " ·ithout damaging others i:i the same language; b) the indication on each abstract of the information necessary to est ablish its origin and classification ; c) a logical plan for the arrangement of the Bulletin including : - at the beginning of each issue, an extract from the classification t ab le, a list of the symbols by la nguage, co untry and category of document, a list of reviews abs– tract ed, whether specialised or not, - a first section, prepared entirely by the French Institute of vVelding and devoted to reports and documents submitted t o a nd stud ied by the Commissions of the IIW, - a second section devoted t o publications, these t\rn ections being classified in accordance with the classifi– cation system used by the II\\ , - at the encl of the last issue in the year, an alpha– betical list of authors; d) satisfactory form of presentation of the Bulletin, bot h from the t echnical and economic points of vie"·· I n this connexion, it was necessary t o make an inquiry and, in March 1956, subscriber \\·ere asked to choose bet\\·een present-