Introduction to indexing and abstracting /
Cleveland, Donald B.,
Introduction to indexing and abstracting / Donald B. Cleveland and Ana D. Cleveland. - 3rd ed. - Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 2001. - xiii, 283 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.
Introduction -- 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 -- String Indexes -- Word Indexes -- Types of Abstracts -- Indicative Abstracts -- Informative Abstracts -- Critical Abstracts -- Classifying Abstracts by Use -- Classifying Abstracts by Author -- Structured Abstracts -- Examples from Indexing Tools -- Examples from Abstracting Tools -- Examples of Thesauri -- The Indexing Process -- Aboutness -- Steps in Indexing -- Recording of Bibliographic Data -- Content Analysis -- The Title -- The Abstract -- The Text Itself -- The References Section -- Some Key Points -- Subject Determination -- Locators -- Term Selection -- Entry Points -- Depth of Indexing -- Exhaustivity -- Specificity -- Making Choices -- Display of Indexes -- The Abstracting Process -- The Purpose of an Abstract -- Coverage -- Economic Constraints -- Significant Material -- Publication Source -- Subject Interest of the Users -- Steps in Abstracting -- Step 1 -- The Title -- Author Affiliation -- Funding Agency -- Publication Source -- Foreign Languages -- Editing -- Evaluation of Abstracts -- The Writing Process -- Indexing and Abstracting a Document -- Example of a Technical Paper -- Abstracting the Document -- Indexing the Document -- Book Indexing -- The Nature of Book Indexes -- Steps in Indexing -- Index Terms -- Name Entries -- Subject Entries -- Additional Details -- Ninety-Nine "Dos-and-Don'ts" -- Book Indexing Example -- Example Book Chapter -- Indexing the Chapter -- Indexing Special Subject Areas and Formats -- Background -- Special Subject Areas -- Science -- Social Sciences -- Humanities -- Special Formats -- Newspapers -- Nonprint Forms -- Images -- Evaluation of Indexing -- The General Problem -- Beginning with the User -- Relevance -- Recall and Precision -- Effects of Exhaustivity and Specificity -- Index Quality -- Evaluating Abstracts -- Standards -- Editing -- Indexing and Abstracting Services -- Bringing in the Computers -- Types of Databases -- Online Services -- Searching the Database -- The Future -- The Use of Computers -- The Computer Tool -- The Script -- Indexing with a Computer -- Types of Indexing Software -- Indexing Software -- Automatic Indexing and Abstracting -- Indexing and the Internet -- Searching the Web -- Organization of Information -- Metadata and the Web -- Dublin Core -- OCLC CORC -- CORC Resource Record Database -- CORC Authority Database -- CORC Pathfinder Database -- CORC Web Dewey -- Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) -- Promises and Pitfalls -- Ninety-Nine Web Resources for Indexers and Abstractors -- Online Bookstores -- Search Services -- Indexing Services -- Dictionaries and Dictionary Directories -- Multireference Resources and Tools -- E-Mail Reference Sites -- Virtual Libraries -- Special Formats and Subjects Indexing -- Standards -- Indexing Software -- Publishers -- Indexing Organizations -- Indexing-Related Discussion Groups -- Indexing and the Web -- The Profession -- Education and Training -- Job Opportunities -- The Role of Research -- The Future. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. Chapter 17.
1563086417 (cloth)
Indexing.
Abstracting.
025.3 / CLE/I
Introduction to indexing and abstracting / Donald B. Cleveland and Ana D. Cleveland. - 3rd ed. - Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 2001. - xiii, 283 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.
Introduction -- 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 -- String Indexes -- Word Indexes -- Types of Abstracts -- Indicative Abstracts -- Informative Abstracts -- Critical Abstracts -- Classifying Abstracts by Use -- Classifying Abstracts by Author -- Structured Abstracts -- Examples from Indexing Tools -- Examples from Abstracting Tools -- Examples of Thesauri -- The Indexing Process -- Aboutness -- Steps in Indexing -- Recording of Bibliographic Data -- Content Analysis -- The Title -- The Abstract -- The Text Itself -- The References Section -- Some Key Points -- Subject Determination -- Locators -- Term Selection -- Entry Points -- Depth of Indexing -- Exhaustivity -- Specificity -- Making Choices -- Display of Indexes -- The Abstracting Process -- The Purpose of an Abstract -- Coverage -- Economic Constraints -- Significant Material -- Publication Source -- Subject Interest of the Users -- Steps in Abstracting -- Step 1 -- The Title -- Author Affiliation -- Funding Agency -- Publication Source -- Foreign Languages -- Editing -- Evaluation of Abstracts -- The Writing Process -- Indexing and Abstracting a Document -- Example of a Technical Paper -- Abstracting the Document -- Indexing the Document -- Book Indexing -- The Nature of Book Indexes -- Steps in Indexing -- Index Terms -- Name Entries -- Subject Entries -- Additional Details -- Ninety-Nine "Dos-and-Don'ts" -- Book Indexing Example -- Example Book Chapter -- Indexing the Chapter -- Indexing Special Subject Areas and Formats -- Background -- Special Subject Areas -- Science -- Social Sciences -- Humanities -- Special Formats -- Newspapers -- Nonprint Forms -- Images -- Evaluation of Indexing -- The General Problem -- Beginning with the User -- Relevance -- Recall and Precision -- Effects of Exhaustivity and Specificity -- Index Quality -- Evaluating Abstracts -- Standards -- Editing -- Indexing and Abstracting Services -- Bringing in the Computers -- Types of Databases -- Online Services -- Searching the Database -- The Future -- The Use of Computers -- The Computer Tool -- The Script -- Indexing with a Computer -- Types of Indexing Software -- Indexing Software -- Automatic Indexing and Abstracting -- Indexing and the Internet -- Searching the Web -- Organization of Information -- Metadata and the Web -- Dublin Core -- OCLC CORC -- CORC Resource Record Database -- CORC Authority Database -- CORC Pathfinder Database -- CORC Web Dewey -- Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) -- Promises and Pitfalls -- Ninety-Nine Web Resources for Indexers and Abstractors -- Online Bookstores -- Search Services -- Indexing Services -- Dictionaries and Dictionary Directories -- Multireference Resources and Tools -- E-Mail Reference Sites -- Virtual Libraries -- Special Formats and Subjects Indexing -- Standards -- Indexing Software -- Publishers -- Indexing Organizations -- Indexing-Related Discussion Groups -- Indexing and the Web -- The Profession -- Education and Training -- Job Opportunities -- The Role of Research -- The Future. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. Chapter 17.
1563086417 (cloth)
Indexing.
Abstracting.
025.3 / CLE/I