Indexing systems, standards and methods

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Keyword vs controlled vocabulary searching: the one with the most tools wins. Sevim Mcutcheon. 27.62–65
Herding cats: indexing British Columbia's political debates using controlled vocabulary. Julie McClung. 27.66–69
Indexing ordinary images: challenges and perspectives. Elaine Menard. 27.70–76

General

Some ideas on indexing. J. Edwin Holmstrom 1.96–103
Some procedures in indexing. J. Edwin Holmstrom 2.20–30
Let’s have an improvement in British book indexes. John Bryon 5.43–5
An unusual method of making a book index (thumb-indexed notebook). Symposium. 6.4–13
An unusual method of making a book index (narrow strips). Lindsay Verrier 6.118–22
Infofair. I. Shamah 7.5–12
Some personalities: Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Margaret Anderson 7.19–23
Infofair/Infoforum. I. Shamah 8.53–5
The use of KWIC to index the proceedings of a public inquiry. Peter A. Thomas 8.145–52
Selective indexing. Symposium 9.59–65
Indexing methods used by some abstracting and indexing services. K.G.B. Bakewell 10.3–8
A curriculum in indexing and abstracting. Richard A. Davis 10.75–7
The Subject Access project. Carolynn E. Bett 11.145–8
Evaluating index systems. John J. Regazzi 12.14–21
Developing a system of indexing surnames in the Home Office. John L. Rush 12.81–2
Patent classification and information retrieval services. Andrew Bayer 12.117–24
A history of indexing technology. Martha Cornog 13.152–7
Information systems at the Business Archives Council. Celia Jackson 14.257–8
Indexing: old methods, new concepts. Dwight D. Tousignant 15.197–204
Prestel using from the user’s point of view. Robin Yeates 16.7–10
Back-of-the-book indexing with the nested phrase indexing system. James D. Anderson & Gary Radford 16.79–84
Putting the horse before the cart: rapid access to data banks by the SIGNPOSTS method. Audrey M. Adams 18.3–9
Why postcoordination fails the searcher. Bella Hass Weinberg 19.155–9
Indexing Gladstone: from 5 x 3" cards to computer and database. H.C.G. Matthew 19.257–64
Computer-assisted indexing of loose-leaf supplements. Elizabeth M. Moys. 19.283–6
Judging indexes: the criteria for a good index. David Lee 22.191–4
Creating indexes for world atlases at HarperCollins Publishers. Jim Irvine 24.119–122
Do Mi’s Second Rule or the functions of subheadings. Do Mi Stauber 24.192–196
Controlled vocabularies, thesauri, and taxonomies. Heather Hedden 26.33
Comparative evaluation of thesaurus creation software. Heather Hedden. 26.50–59
The medium is not the message: topic maps and the separation of presentation and content in indexes. Richard Northedge. 26.60–64
Introduction to controlled vocabularies. Fred Leise. 26.121–126
Keyword vs controlled vocabulary searching: the one with the most tools wins. Sevim Mcutcheon. 27.62–65
Herding cats: indexing British Columbia's political debates using controlled vocabulary. Julie McClung. 27.66–69
Indexing ordinary images: challenges and perspectives. Elaine Menard. 27.70–76


LISA

Indexing LISA: chains, KISS and the bold approach. Tom Edwards 9.133–45
LISA indexing: economic aspects of controlled indexing. Nicholas Lister Moore 16.11–16
LISA: anatomy of an abstracting service. Daphne M. Tomlinson 15.83–6

PRECIS

The PRECIS indexing system. K.G.B. Bakewell 9.160–6
Syntactic and semantic relationships — or: a review of PRECIS. P.F. Broxis 10.54–9
A US indexer attends a PRECIS indexing workshop. Barbara M. Preschel 10.111–15
Streamlining PRECIS just for laughs! C. Jacobs & C. Arsenault. 19.88–92

Standards

American Standards Association: Z39 Subcommittee on Indexing 1.42–7
Standards for indexes to learned and scientific periodicals 2.63–4
Index to a periodical volume. G.J. Narayana and K. Ramaswami 4.59–66/89
Standards update: ANSI Committee Z39. Fred Blum 9.113–15
Documentation Standards at BSI. Michael Bardwell 9.116–18
The British Standards Institution and its recommendations for indexes. L.M. Harrod/Mary Piggott 10.186–91
Documentation standards. Mary Piggott 15.20–1
News of British Standards. Mary Piggott 17.30–2
BS 3700 revision. K.G.B. Bakewell 16.42–4
Towards a new international standard on indexing. K.G.B. Bakewell 17.127–8
Deconstructing indexing standards. Drusilla Calvert. 20.74–7
Good practice in indexing — the new edition of International Standard ISO 999. Pat F. Booth. 20.114
G/T 22466-2008 – Guidelines for indexing: China’s new national indexing standard. Wen Guoqiang and Guo Lifang. 27.101-102