Tuvilleja lis07 index and indexing

Prepared by

JAHLEN M. TUVILLEJA

II – BLIS

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

INDEX AND INDEXINGS-LIS 07

The process of creating an index is called indexing, and

a person who does it is called an indexer.

British indexing standard (BS3700:1988)


INDEXING

DEVELOPMENTOF

INDEXES AND INDEXING


DEVELOPMENT OF INDEXES AND INDEXING

1. 5th Century: Alphabetical Index

2. 14th Century: Annotation in Manuscripts

3. 15th – 17th Century: Concordances & Topical indexes



4. 18th Century: indexes to books were prepared primarily by their authors

5. 19th Century: compile indexes to cover entire fields



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)



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



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



6. 20th Century:

• 1960s Cyril W. Cleverdon

o Cranfield Project was the development of techniques for the quantitative evaluation of 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.


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


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


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


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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