... Bibliographic systems Indexes Retrieval languages Designing, building, and maintaining an indexing language, metadata schema, or ontology is an act of creation. In both the act and the artifact we can examine the form and content through a number of different lenses. We find an incipient discourse...

... of the sort of evaluation to be conducted in row 2 is the assessment of formation of indexing terms in various contexts. Since information professionals tend to think of in terms of establish standards formation of indexing terms is often thought of as “correct” when it meets the ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005...

...John Knowles All the chapters contributed do indeed emphasise what is important, keeping a useful and practical focus on the business of creating good indexes. Chapters are included on indexing and tabling legal cases, on dealing with statutory materials and on new technologies and methodologies...

...Rodney Brunt Two papers describing experiments in different aspects of computerised applications are found in Brooks (“Relevance auras: macro patterns and micro scatter”) and Ruiz and Srinivasan (“Combining machine learning and hierarchical indexing structures for text categorization”). Ruiz...

...Marianne Lykke Nielsen References Clarke, D. and Yancey, T. (2001), “Twenty‐first century tools for vocabulary management and indexing”, paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Washington, DC, available at: www.synaptica.com...

... Knowledge management Indexes Information retrieval This volume sets out to present the current state of the art in relation to the expression of relationships in thesauri, classification schemes and other approaches to the organisation of knowledge. Fourteen chapters, authored by recognised...

...Jarmo Saarti The paper discusses the consistency of fiction indexing of library professionals and patrons based on an empirical test. Indexing was carried out with a Finnish fictional thesaurus and all of the test persons indexed the same five novels. The consistency of indexing was determined...

...D.T. Tomov A semantic analysis of the “Weekly Subject Index Stop Word List” of Current Contents of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as well as of the full‐stop word and semi‐stop word lists of the Permuterm Subject Index of Science Citation Index was carried out. Selected terms from...

...Marianne Lykke Nielsen Design and construction of indexing languages require thorough knowledge and understanding of the information environment. This empirical study investigated a mixed set of methods (group interviews, recollection of information needs and word association tests to collect data...

...Mounia Lalmas; Ian Ruthven In this paper we report on a theoretical model of structured document indexing and retrieval based on the Dempster‐Shafer Theory of Evidence. This includes a description of our model of structured document retrieval, the representation of structured documents...

...Jeffrey D. Kushkowski; Kristin H. Gerhard; Cynthia Dobson This paper describes a simple method for developing a list of core serials in a particular subject field by analysing article citations in electronic indexes. The Simple Index Method overcomes the difficulties in building a core list...

...David Ellis; Nigel Ford; Jonathan Furner For the purposes of this article, the indexing of information is interpreted as the pre‐processing of information in order to enable its retrieval. This definition thus spans a dimension extending from classification‐based approaches (pre‐co‐ordinate...

... shows no correlation with frequency‐based weights. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Indexes Access control Information strategy Journal of Documentation, Vol. 53, No. 5, December 1997 © Aslib, The Association for Information Management. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted under...