Preface Introduction p. 1 Making an Index p. 1 The Need for Indexes p. 2 The Nature of Indexes p. 4 Makers of Indexes p. 5 A Brief Historical Perspective p. 6 A Note to the Neophyte Indexer p. 9 p. xiii The Nature of Information p. 11 The Information Age p. 11 A Natural Phenomenon p. 13 The Study of Information p. 18 A Basic Resource p. 18 Mechanisms for Information Preservation and Transmittal p. 19 The Organization of Information p. 22 The Information Cycle p. 22 The Basic Information Retrieval Model p. 23 The Information Is Created and Acquired for the System p. 24 Knowledge Records Are Analyzed and Tagged by Sets of Index Terms p. 26 The Knowledge Records Are Stored Physically and the Index Terms Are Stored into a Structured File p. 26 The User's Query Is Tagged with Sets of Index Terms and Then Is Matched Against the Tagged p. 27 Records Matched Documents Are Retrieved for Review p. 27 Feedback May Lead to Several Reiterations of the Search p. 28 Classification and Indexing p. 29 The Relationship of Indexing, Abstracting, and Searching p. 31 Using Indexes and Abstracts p. 33 Vocabulary Control p. 35 The Purpose of Controlled Vocabulary p. 35 The Nature of Indexing Languages p. 37 Authority Lists p. 38 Generic Vocabularies p. 39 The Thesaurus p. 40 Thesaurus Construction p. 41 Term Relationships p. 43 Term Forms p. 45 Thesaurus Evaluation p. 46 Types of Indexes and Abstracts p. 48 Types of Indexes p. 48 Alphabetical Indexes p. 48 Author Indexes p. 49
Book Indexes p. 49 Citation Indexes p. 49 Classified Indexes p. 51 Coordinate Indexes p. 51 Cumulative Indexes p. 51 Faceted Indexes p. 51 First-line Indexes p. 52 Hypermedia Indexes p. 52 Internet Indexes p. 52 Multimedia Indexes p. 53 Periodical Indexes p. 53 Permuted Title Indexes p. 54 String Indexes p. 54 Word Indexes p. 55 Types of Abstracts p. 55 Indicative Abstracts p. 56 Informative Abstracts p. 57 Critical Abstracts p. 57 Classifying Abstracts by Use p. 58 Classifying Abstracts by Author p. 58 Structured Abstracts p. 59 Examples from Indexing Tools p. 61 Examples from Abstracting Tools p. 74 Examples of Thesauri p. 91 The Indexing Process p. 97 Aboutness p. 98 Steps in Indexing p. 99 Recording of Bibliographic Data p. 100 Content Analysis p. 101 The Title p. 101 The Abstract p. 101 The Text Itself p. 102 The References Section p. 102 Some Key Points p. 103 Subject Determination p. 103 Locators p. 104 Term Selection p. 104 Entry Points p. 104 Depth of Indexing p. 105 Exhaustivity p. 105 Specificity p. 106
Making Choices p. 106 Display of Indexes p. 107 The Abstracting Process p. 108 The Purpose of an Abstract p. 108 Coverage p. 109 Economic Constraints p. 109 Significant Material p. 109 Publication Source p. 109 Subject Interest of the Users p. 110 Steps in Abstracting p. 110 Step 1 p. 110 The Title p. 110 The Author p. 111 Author Affiliation p. 111 Funding Agency p. 111 Publication Source p. 112 Foreign Languages p. 113 Other Information p. 113 Step 2 p. 113 Step 3 p. 115 Step 4 p. 117 Step 5 p. 117 Editing p. 118 Evaluation of Abstracts p. 119 The Writing Process p. 119 Indexing and Abstracting a Document p. 121 Example of a Technical Paper p. 121 Abstracting the Document p. 129 Indexing the Document p. 131 Book Indexing p. 137 The Nature of Book Indexes p. 137 Steps in Indexing p. 139 Step 1 p. 139 Step 2 p. 139 Step 3 p. 139 Step 4 p. 139 Step 5 p. 139 Index Terms p. 140 Name Entries p. 142 Subject Entries p. 144 Additional Details p. 145
Ninety-Nine "Dos-and-Don'ts" p. 146 Book Indexing Example p. 150 Example Book Chapter p. 150 Indexing the Chapter p. 160 Indexing Special Subject Areas and Formats p. 165 Background p. 165 Special Subject Areas p. 166 Science p. 166 Social Sciences p. 168 Humanities p. 169 Special Formats p. 171 Newspapers p. 171 Nonprint Forms p. 174 Images p. 174 Evaluation of Indexing p. 179 Background p. 179 The General Problem p. 180 Beginning with the User p. 182 Relevance p. 183 Recall and Precision p. 185 Effects of Exhaustivity and Specificity p. 187 Index Quality p. 187 Evaluating Abstracts p. 189 Standards p. 189 Editing p. 190 Indexing and Abstracting Services p. 192 Background p. 192 Bringing in the Computers p. 193 Types of Databases p. 194 Online Services p. 195 Searching the Database p. 196 The Future p. 199 The Use of Computers p. 200 The Computer Tool p. 200 The Script p. 204 Indexing with a Computer p. 206 Types of Indexing Software p. 207 Indexing Software p. 209 Automatic Indexing and Abstracting p. 211 Indexing p. 211 Abstracting p. 213
Indexing and the Internet p. 215 Background p. 215 Searching the Web p. 216 Organization of Information p. 220 Metadata and the Web p. 223 Dublin Core p. 224 OCLC CORC p. 226 CORC Resource Record Database p. 226 CORC Authority Database p. 226 CORC Pathfinder Database p. 226 CORC Web Dewey p. 226 Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) p. 227 Summary p. 227 Promises and Pitfalls p. 228 Ninety-Nine Web Resources for Indexers and Abstractors p. 231 Online Bookstores p. 231 Search Services p. 232 Indexing Services p. 233 Dictionaries and Dictionary Directories p. 234 Multireference Resources and Tools p. 234 E-Mail Reference Sites p. 236 Virtual Libraries p. 237 Special Formats and Subjects Indexing p. 238 Standards p. 238 Indexing Software p. 239 Publishers p. 239 Indexing Organizations p. 240 Indexing-Related Discussion Groups p. 240 Indexing and the Web p. 241 The Profession p. 242 Education and Training p. 242 Job Opportunities p. 243 The Role of Research p. 245 The Future p. 249 The Final Word p. 249 Glossary p. 251 Bibliography p. 261 Index p. 277 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.