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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, 263Intellect: 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 indexer’s 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 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

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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