INDEX AND INDEXING

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INDEX AND INDEXING
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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.

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DEFINED

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

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KINDS

• Analytical back-of-book

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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

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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

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PURPOSE OF INDEX
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GOALS OF AN INDEX

• Sincerity deep, awful, divine quality of, 263
• Intellect tragic consequences of insufficient,
  81
• ______ how to increase the supply, 96

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CHALLENGES IN INDEXING

• Consistency

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CHALLENGES IN INDEXING

• Consistency
• Index to maximum specificity

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CHALLENGES IN INDEXING

• Consistency
• Index to maximum specificity
• Avoid circular references

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CHALLENGES IN INDEXING

• Consistency
• Index to maximum specificity
• Avoid circular references
• Avoid scattering

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CHALLENGES IN INDEXING

• Consistency
• Index to maximum specificity
• Avoid circular references
• Avoid scattering
• Permanence of location

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CHALLENGES IN INDEXING

• Are following and leading both

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CHALLENGES IN INDEXING

• Are following and leading both
• Engages indexers best judgment

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HISTORY OF INDEXING

• Earliest examples
• Romans

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ALPHABETIZATION
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LOCATION OF ENTIRES
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ENTRIES AS STATEMENTS

• An Oath with an etc. in it, 517

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EARLY SYNDETICS

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

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INDEX AS WEAPON

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

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1st GREAT AGE
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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

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SOPHISTICATION, 1870s

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TERM SELECTION

• A Short Review of the Drama of the Nineteenth
  Century
• A Brief Conspectus of the Theatre in the
  Nineteenth Century

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H. W. WILSON

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MELVILLE (MELVIL) DEWEY

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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

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

• Morals, are like teeth the more decayed they are
  the more it hurts to touch them, 434

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

• Doctors, a surgeon has a pecuniary interest in
  operationsthe 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

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JEAN KERR

• Idiot, 24, 87, 119, 160
• Idiot, tale told by a, 25
• Index (This is the index, idiot)

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JEAN KERR

• In all cases the page numbers refer to the
  magazines in which these pieces originally
  appeared.

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AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE

• Standard on Indexing

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NEW FORMS OF INDEX

• Automatic Index
• Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan

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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.

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KEY WORD
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ENTRY
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ENTRY
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LANGUAGE

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

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ENTRY
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HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
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ALPHABETIZING

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

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ORDER OF ENTRIES
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ORDER OF ENTRIES
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ORDER OF ENTRIES
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SYNDETICS
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GLOSSES
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GLOSSES
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GLOSSES
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SEE ENTRY
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SEE ENTRY

• Election, see Bribery
• Footway, see Nuisance
• --Serjeant Wm. Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, 1716

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SEE ALSO
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EXERCISE

• What is the problem here?

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INDEX LEVELINTRODUCTION

• Monograph

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INDEX LEVELINTRODUCTION

• Compilations

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INDEX LEVELINTRODUCTION

• Compilations

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INDEXING PROCEDURE
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PROCEDURE
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EXERCISE
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EXERCISE
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EXERCISE