Introduction to indexing and abstracting / Donald B. Cleveland, Ana D. Cleveland.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cleveland, Donald B., 1935-
Other Authors: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1983.
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Table of Contents:
  • Making an Index
  • The Need for Indexes
  • The Nature of Indexes
  • Makers of Indexes
  • A Brief Historical Perspective
  • A Note to the Neophyte Indexer
  • The Nature of Information
  • The Information Age
  • A Natural Phenomenon
  • The Study of Information
  • A Basic Resource
  • Mechanisms for Information Preservation and Transmittal
  • The Organization of Information
  • The Information Cycle
  • The Basic Information Retrieval Model
  • The Information Is Created and Acquired for the System
  • Knowledge Records Are Analyzed and Tagged by Sets of Index Terms
  • The Knowledge Records Are Stored Physically and the Index Terms Are Stored into a Structured File
  • The User's Query Is Tagged with Sets of Index Terms and Then Is Matched Against the Tagged Records
  • Matched Documents Are Retrieved for Review
  • Feedback May Lead to Several Reiterations of the Search
  • Classification and Indexing
  • The Relationship of Indexing, Abstracting, and Searching
  • Using Indexes and Abstracts
  • Vocabulary Control
  • The Purpose of Controlled Vocabulary
  • The Nature of Indexing Languages
  • Authority Lists
  • Generic Vocabularies
  • The Thesaurus
  • Thesaurus Construction
  • Term Relationships
  • Term Forms
  • Thesaurus Evaluation
  • Types of Indexes and Abstracts
  • Types of Indexes
  • Book Indexes
  • Citation Indexes
  • Classified Indexes
  • Coordinate Indexes
  • Cumulative Indexes
  • Faceted Indexes
  • First-line Indexes
  • Hypermedia Indexes
  • Internet Indexes
  • Multimedia Indexes
  • Periodical Indexes
  • Permuted Title Indexes.