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JAHLEN M. TUVILLEJA
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A. Y. 2013 - 2014
INDEX AND INDEXING
An index is a systematic arrangement of entries designed to enable users
to locate information in a document.
British indexing standard (BS3700:1988)
INDEX
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The process of creating an index is called indexing, and
a person who does it is called an indexer.
British indexing standard (BS3700:1988)
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INDEXING
DEVELOPMENTOF
INDEXES AND INDEXING
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DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING
1. 5th Century: Alphabetical Index
2. 14th Century: Annotation in Manuscripts
3. 15th – 17th Century: Concordances & Topical indexes
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DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING
4. 18th Century: indexes to books were prepared primarily by their authors
5. 19th Century: compile indexes to cover entire fields
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DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING
6. 20th Century:
subject index with subdivision in a simple hierarchical structure of two or three levels
(main heading and modifier or
main heading, subheading, and modifier)
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DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING
6. 20th Century:
• Scholarly journals
with the rapid growth of journals,
subject access become necessary
o 1850s, W. F. Poole - publication of an index across many journals
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DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING
6. 20th Century:
• 1950s – Computers had entered the indexing and abstracting arena and efforts were begun to evaluate indexing using quantitative methods.
- Hans Peter Luhn’s KWIC indexes
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DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING
6. 20th Century:
• 1960s Cyril W. Cleverdon
o Cranfield Project was the development of techniques for the quantitative evaluation of indexing
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DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING
6. 20th Century:
• Indexing has outstripped the ideas of previous ages. We have progressed from indexes to individual works, through indexes to several volumes, to cooperative indexes on an international scale
(Kuang-hua Chen, 2005)
PURPOSE AND USESOF
INDEXES
Indexes are designed to help the reader find information quickly and easily.
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PURPOSE OF INDEXES
• identifies information a reader might look for
• collects the different ways of wording the same concept
• provides terminology that might not exist in the text
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USES OF INDEXES
• facilitates quotation by other authors, by the media, by students, by readers
• retrieves information for review by students
• analyzes concepts to produce headings
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USES OF INDEXES
• focuses the gateways/entries to the book's information to a specific audience
• filters information for the reader in order to prevent burnout
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USES OF INDEXES
• Chen, Kuang-Hua. 2005. Indexing and abstracting. www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/~khchen/course/ia/slide/ia200501.pdf
• Indexing and abstracting. 2008. library.upmin.edu.ph/librariansresources/indexabs.pdf
• Index (publishing). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(publishing)
• http://www.backwordsindexing.com/Intro.html
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