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In response to Peggy Thompson (and others) who are interested in indexing
references ... this is from INDEX-L.
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INDEX-L FAQ
BOOKS ON INDEXING?
Knight, G. N. Indexing, The Art Of. Allen & Unwin, 1979.
Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice.
U of Illinois Press, 1991.
Lancaster, F. W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval,
2nd ed. Information resources Press, 1986
Wellisch, H. Indexing and Abstracting, an International
Bibliography ABC-Clio, 1980.
Wellisch, H. Indexing from A to Z. H. W. Wilson, 1991.
WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT AUTOMATIC INDEXING?
Books:
Salton and McGill Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Salton, Automatic Text Processing
Van Rijsbergen Information Retrieval
Jones, Karen Spark Information Retrieval Experiment
Papers:
Bell, C. and Jones, K. "Back-of-the-book Indexing: A Case for the
Application of Artificial Intelligence", Informatics 5, ASLIB
Pub., pp. 155-161, 1979
Bennion, B. "Performance Testing of a Book and its Index as an
Information Retrieval System", JASIS, pp. 265-270, July 1970
Borko, H. "Experiments in Book Indexing by Computer" Information
Storage and Retrieval, 6:5)16, 1970
Dillon, M. and McDonald, J. "Fully Automatic Book Indexing"
Journal of Documentation 39(1):135-154, 1983
Dion, M. Thesaurus-Based Automatic Book Indexing", Information
Processing and Management, 81(4):167-178, 1982
Salton, G. "Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing",
Proceedings of the 26th ACL, pp. 204-210, 1988
WHAT SOFTWARE DO INDEXERS USE?
(All of these are for DOS machines...no Macs)
Macrex
Bayside Indexing Service
P.O. Box 3051
Daly City, CA 95015-0051
(415) 756-0821
FAX: (415) 757-1567
Cindex
Indexing Research
Box 18609
Rochester, New
(716) 461-5530
FAX: (716) 442-3924
COURSES OR TRAINING FOR INDEXERS (OUTSIDE OF LIBRARY SCHOOLS)?
Graduate School of the USDA
Correspondence Programs
Room 1114, South Agriculture Building
14th St. and Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 720-7131
Tuition: $269.00 (includes all materials)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS FOR INDEXERS?
(this question was not actually asked..but here's the answer
anyway)
American Society of Indexers (ASI)
P.O. Box 386
Port Aransas TX 78373
(512) 749-4052
FAX: (512) 749-6334
E-Mail: asi -at- well -dot- com
Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada
Box 744 Station F
Toronto Ontario
Canada M4Y 2N6
National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services
(NFAIS)
1429 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19102
(215) 563)2406
FAX: (215) 563-2848
Society of Indexers (SI)
16 Green Road Birchington, England
CT79JZ
Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI)
GPO Box 1251L, Melbourne
Victoria 3001, Australia
NETWORK CONNECTIONS
America Online (800) 227-6364
CompuServe (800) 848-8199
Delphi (800) 495-4005
GEnie (800) 638-9636
The Well (415) 332-4335
Real/Time Communications (512) 459-4391
See also. Maren, M. "The Age of E-Mail. Home Office Computing,
December, 1993, 63-70.
WINNERS OF THE ASI/H.W. WILSON COMPANY AWARD FOR INDEXING
1979--Hans H. Wellisch, author and indexer; John Wiley, publisher:
The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and Utilization.
1980--Linda I. Solow, indexer; M.I.T. Press, publisher: Beyond Orpheus:
Studies in Musical Structures.
1981--Delight Ansley, indexer; Random House Publisher: Cosmos, Carl Sagan,
author.
1982--Catherine Fix, indexer; Wm. Saunders Company, publisher: Diagnosis
of Bone and Joint Disorders.
1983--Award not given.
1984--Trish Yancey, indexer; Information Handling Services, publisher:
Index and Directory of U.S. Industry Standards.
1985--Sydney W. Cohen, indexer; Random House, publisher: The Experts Speak,
Cerf and Navasky, authors.
1986--Marjorie Hyslop, indexer; American Society for Metals, publisher:
Metals Handbook.
1987--Award not given.
1988--Jeanne Moody, indexer; National Wildlife Institute, publisher: Raptor
Management Techniques.
1989--Philip James, indexer; Butterworths, publisher: Medicine for the
Practicing Physician, 2nd ed..
1990--Marcia Carlson, indexer; Cornell University Press, publisher:
Strategic Nuclear Arms & Arms Control Debates.
1991--Daniels, Nancy L., indexer; Van Nostrand Reinhold, publisher:
Beyond Public Architecture: Strategies for Design Evaluation.
1992--Johnson, Rachel Jo., indexer; Matthew Bender, publisher: American Law
of Real Property.
1993--Award not given.
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Lori Lathrop ----------> INTERNET:76620 -dot- 456 -at- compuserve -dot- com
Lathrop Media Services, P.O. Box 3065, Idaho Springs, CO 80452
(Author of _An Indexer's Guide to the Internet_ published by the
American Society of Indexers, P.O. Box 386, Port Aransas, TX 78373
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