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INDEX AND INDEXING

INDEX AND INDEXING. DEFINED. 1.        An ordered list of terms or keys that guides a user in locating recorded information. 2.        A systematic guide to items contained in or concepts derived from a collection of information entities. DEFINED. A system for organizing information:

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INDEX AND INDEXING

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  1. INDEX AND INDEXING

  2. DEFINED • 1.        An ordered list of terms or keys that guides a user in locating recorded information. • 2.        A systematic guide to items contained in or concepts derived from a collection of information entities.

  3. DEFINED A system for organizing information: • In groups • Individual, stand-alone entities • Elements within items

  4. KINDS • Analytical – back-of-book

  5. KINDS • Analytical – back-of-book • Descriptive – elements within a database • Keyword in Context Index: http://www.halifax-today.co.uk/specialfeatures/triviatrail/h13_3.html

  6. KINDS • Analytical – back-of-book • Descriptive – elements within a database • Keyword in Context Index: http://www.halifax-today.co.uk/specialfeatures/triviatrail/h13_3.html • By index language

  7. PURPOSE OF INDEX

  8. GOALS OF AN INDEX Sincerity: deep, awful, divine quality of, 263 Intellect: tragic consequences of insufficient, 81 ______: how to increase the supply, 96

  9. CHALLENGES IN INDEXING • Consistency

  10. CHALLENGES IN INDEXING • Consistency • Index to maximum specificity

  11. CHALLENGES IN INDEXING • Consistency • Index to maximum specificity • Avoid circular references

  12. CHALLENGES IN INDEXING • Consistency • Index to maximum specificity • Avoid circular references • Avoid scattering

  13. CHALLENGES IN INDEXING • Consistency • Index to maximum specificity • Avoid circular references • Avoid scattering • Permanence of location

  14. CHALLENGES IN INDEXING • Are following and leading both

  15. CHALLENGES IN INDEXING • Are following and leading both • Engages indexer’s best judgment

  16. HISTORY OF INDEXING • Earliest examples • Romans

  17. ALPHABETIZATION

  18. LOCATION OF ENTIRES

  19. ENTRIES AS STATEMENTS An Oath with an etc. in it, 517

  20. EARLY SYNDETICS • Chastity, see Homicide • Death, see Appeal -- Serjeant Wm. Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, 1716

  21. INDEX AS WEAPON • William Bromley, Remarks in the Grande Tour of France and Italy, Lately Performed by a Person of Quality, 1692 -- Reprinted, 1705

  22. 1st GREAT AGE

  23. 1st GREAT AGE “… such an index to the three would look like the preclusion of a fourth, to which I will never contribute; for if I cannot benefit mankind I hope never to injure them.” --Samuel Johnson, 1753

  24. SOPHISTICATION, 1870s

  25. TERM SELECTION A Short Review of the Drama of the Nineteenth Century A Brief Conspectus of the Theatre in the Nineteenth Century

  26. H. W. WILSON

  27. MELVILLE (MELVIL) DEWEY

  28. BLOSSOMING, 20th Century • Sophistication of the analytical index • Creation of new forms of index October 2003 Percentage points by which George Bush Sr.'s approval rating in August 1991 exceeded his son's last August : 11

  29. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW • Morals, are like teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them, 434

  30. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW • Doctors, a surgeon has a pecuniary interest in operations—the more he mutilates, the higher his fee, 237, 238; bring comfort and reassurance to the relatives, and sometimes death to the patient, 239; operations are recorded as successful if the patient leaves alive, 242; they themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure, 241

  31. JEAN KERR Idiot, 24, 87, 119, 160 Idiot, tale told by a, 25 Index (This is the index, idiot)

  32. JEAN KERR “In all cases the page numbers refer to the magazines in which these pieces originally appeared.”

  33. AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE Standard on Indexing

  34. NEW FORMS OF INDEX • Automatic Index Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan

  35. NEW FORMS OF INDEX Science Citation Index® The ISI®Science Citation Index (SCI®) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 3,700 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 100 disciplines. The Science Citation Index Expanded™ format, available through the ISI Web of Science® and the online version, SciSearch®, cover more than 5,800 journals.

  36. KEY WORD

  37. ENTRY

  38. ENTRY

  39. LANGUAGE • Noun: Austin, capital at • Verb: Austin, settled • Gerund: Austin, naming of • Conjunction: Austin and state government • Prepositional phrase: Winter, in Austin

  40. ENTRY

  41. HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?

  42. ALPHABETIZING • Letter by letter, word by word • Newark • New York • Order • People • Places • Things

  43. ORDER OF ENTRIES

  44. ORDER OF ENTRIES

  45. ORDER OF ENTRIES

  46. SYNDETICS

  47. GLOSSES

  48. GLOSSES

  49. GLOSSES

  50. “SEE” ENTRY

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