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a current awareness bibliography Part 7

compiled by Jean Wheeler

AUTOMATIC INDEXING

(seealso 1115,1118,1129, 1144, 1188,

1200, 1214)

1082 Brown, John C; Sadik, Abdul K.

Cataloguing, indexing, searching and

browsing multiple postscript documents.

New Review of Document and Text

Management 1 (1995): 215-236. Figures.

Tables.

Describes the indexing of PostScript

documents and figures which are generated

by university departments from Microsoft

Windows packages.

1083 Chen, Hsinchun, el ai A parallel

computing approach to creating engineering

concept spaces for semantic retrieval: the

Illinois Digital Library Initiative project.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and

Machine Intelligence 18 no. 8 (Aug. 1996):

771-782. Bibliography. Figures. Tables.

Presents the preliminary results of the

University of Illinois Digital Library

Initiative project semantic retrieval research

component, which uses a variation of

automatic thesaurus generating techniques

to create terms and relationships for all

major engineering domains.

1084 Dodge, Chris, et ai Web cataloguing

through cache exploitation and steps toward

consistency maintenance. Computer

Networks and ISDN Systems 27 no. 6 (Apr.

1995): 1003-1008. Bibliography. Figures.

Describes a new World Wide Web

cataloguing strategy which is based on an

automatic analysis of documents that are

stored in a proxy server cache at the Alfred

Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine

Research.

1085 Faraj, Najib, et al Analyse d'une

methode d'indexation automatique basee sur

une analyse syntaxique de texte [Analysis of

an automatic indexing method based on

syntactic analysis of text]. Canadian

Journal of Information and Library Science

21 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 1-21. Bibliography.

Figures. Tables. (In French)

1086 Henderson, Sandra. Future indexing

developments in WORLD 1. Australian

Society oflndexers Newsletter 20 no. 8

(Sept. 1996): 4-5.

World I is a new information and retrieval

storage system being developed by the

national libraries of Australia and New

Zealand.

1087 Hlava, Marjorie M.K.; Hainebach,

Richard. Machine aided indexing: European

Parliament study and results. In: National

Online Meeting 1996: Proceedings of the

17th National Online Meeting, New York,

May 14-16, 1996, edited by Martha E.

Williams, 137-158. Mcdford, NJ:

Information Today, 1996. Bibliography.

Figures.

Purpose of the pilot study (using the

EUROVAC Thesaurus) was to compare

automatic and human indexing, and to

determine whether machine-aided indexing

resulted in improved indexing consistency,

so that users could successfully access the

European Parliament's EPOQUE database.

1088 Jordahl, Gregory. Indexing. Inform 9

no. 5 (May 1995): 64.

Indexing software for image files.

1089 Lancaster, F. Wilfrid, et al. Evaluation

of interactive knowledge-based systems:

overview and design of empirical testing.

Journal of the American Society for

Information Science 47 no. 1 (Jan. 1996):

57-69. Bibliography. Tables.

Compares the MedlndEx expert system and

the Automated Indexing Management

System for MEDLINE indexing.

1090 Lee, Dik Lun; Ren, Liming.

Document ranking on weight-partitioned

signature files. ACM Transactions on

Information Systems 14 no. 2 (Apr. 1996):

109-137. Bibliography. Figures. Tables.

Deals with the way in which term frequency

impacts on the effectiveness of information

retrieval.

1091 O1 Kane, Kevin C. Generating

hierarchical document indices from common

denominators in large document collections.

Information Processing and Management

32 no. 1 (Jan. 1996): 105-115. Bibliography.

Figures.

1092 Postma, G.J., et al. Automatic

extraction of analytical chemical

information: system description, inventory

of tasks and problems, and preliminary

results. Journal of Chemical Information

and Computer Sciences 36 no. 4 (July/Aug.

1996): 770-785. Figures.

1093 Story, Roger E. An explanation of the

effectiveness of Latent Semantic Indexing

by means of a Bayesian regression model.


32 no. 3 (May 1996): 329-344.

Bibliography. Illus.

1094 Veenema, Fred. To index or not to

index. Canadian Journal of Information and

Library Science 21 no. 2 (July 1996): 1-22.

Figures. Tables.

The performance of automatic full-text

indexing software is compared with the

human intellectual assignment of indexing

terms. Software used is QuickFinder in

WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows. Includes a

term list and full-text search statements.

1095 Wilbur, W. John; Yang, Yiming. An

analysis of statistical term strength and its

use in the indexing and retrieval of

molecular biology texts. Computers in

Biology and Medicine 26 no. 3 (May 1996):

209-222. Figures. Tables.

1096 Yang, Yiming; Wilbur, W. John.

Using corpus statistics to remove redundant

words in text categorization. Journal of the

American Society for Information Science

47 no. 5 (May 1996): 357-369.

Bibliography. Figures. Tables.

CITATION INDEXES AND

INDEXING

(see also 1105, 1147)

1097 Langham, Thomas. Consistency in

referencing. Journal of Documentation 51

no. 4 (Dec. 1995): 360-369.

Emphasizes the need for precision in

citation analysis.

1098 Oppenheim, Charles. Do citations

count? Citation indexing and the Research

Assessment Exercise (RAE). Serials 9 no. 2

(July 1996): 155-161.

1099 Sidney, S.A.; Diodato, Virgil P. Do

developing technologies help predict science

journal selections? Science and Technology

Libraries 14 no. 1 (Fall 1993): 15-28.

Suggests method for forecasting journal

significance regarding essential research

data on important technologies.

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ECONOMICS OF INDEXING

(sec 1116)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

(sec 1200)

EVALUATION OF INDEXING

(sec also 1085, 1087, 1089, 1111,1115,

1142, 1149, 1212, 1242)

1100 Bell, Hazel K. Whom should we aim to

please? Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 3-5.

The sometimes incompatible expectations

and demands of users, subjects, authors,

publishers, and regulators.

1101 Bcrman, Paul. The last page. Dissent

(Spring 1995): 288.

Regrets the lack of 'grand-scale' indexes,

such as the index to A rebel in defense of

tradition: the life and politics ofDwiglu

Macdonald, by Michael Wreszin (New

York: Basic Books, 1994).

1102 David, Claire, et al. Indexing as

problem solving: a cognitive approach to

consistency. In: ASIS '95: Proceedings of

the 58th Annual Meeting of the American

Society for Information Science, Chicago,

IL, October 9-12, 1995, edited by Tom

Kinney, vol. 32,49-55. Medford, NJ:

Information Today, 1995. Figures.

Also In: Proceedings of CAIS/ACS1 95, the

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference

of the Canadian Association of Information

Science, edited by Hope A. Olson and

Dennis B. Ward, 79-89. Edmonton:

University of Alberta, School of Library and

Information Studies, 1995. Figures.

Examines consistency in indexing.

1103 Gross, Patricia Hollander. Meditations

on indexes. Small Press 12 no. 4 (Fall

1994): 52-55. Hlus.

Discusses what makes a bad index, as well

as what makes a good index better.

1104 Hudon, Michele. Forty-two years of

interindexer consistency studies

(1954-1996). Canadian Journal of

Information and Library Science 21 no. 3/4

(Scpt.-Dcc. 1996): 82-83.

Abstract to paper presented at Connections

'96 Proceedings: The Second Great Lakes

Information Science Conference, Faculty of

Information Studies, University of Toronto,

October 25-26, 1996.

Defines 'intcrindcxer consistency' as the

degree to which different indcxers agree in

their description of the same document at

any onetime.

1105 Sylvia, Margaret; Lcshcr, Marcella.

Making hard choices: cancelling print

indexes. Online 18 no. 1 (Jan. 1994): 59-60,

62-64.

Experience of St. Mary's University

Academic Library with print indexes versus

CD-ROMs. Focus is on Social Science

Citation Index, Engineering Index, and

Index Medicus. A section is included on the

quality of indexing.

1106 Vickers, John A. Quick guide 13:

indexing your book. London: Society of

Authors, 1996. 12 p. Reviews by Hazel K.

Bell in Learned Publishing 9 no. 4 (Oct.

1996): 266; and Society of Freelance

Editors and Proofreaders Newsletter no. 80

(Jan./Feb. 1997): 17.

INDEX PRODUCTION

(see 1145)

INDEXERS

(see also 1100, 1144,1168, 1172, 1185)

1107 Awards 1995. Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr.

1996): 37.

AusSI Medal; Ted Hines Award (AS1);

ASIAVilson Award; and the Wheatlcy

Medal.

1108 Bell, Hazel K. Index makers of today.

Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 23-24; no. 2

(Oct. 1996): 106-107. IUus.

Profiles of Ann Hall and Nancy Mulvany

(Apr. 1996); and Laurence Errington and

Linda Fetters (Oct. 1996).

1109 Bell, Hazel K. The Indexer thirty

years ago. Indexer 20 no. 2 (Oct. 1996): 112.

1110 Bell, Hazel K. The making of a

dictionary: James A.H. Murray. Indexer 20

no. 2 (Oct. 1996): 78-80. Illus.

The work of the first editor of the Oxford

English Dictionary, lexicographer and word

lover, James A.H. Murray.

1111 Bertrand, Annick; Ccllier, Jean-Marie.

Psychological approach to indexing: effects

of the operator's expertise upon indexing

behaviour. Journal of Information Science

21 no. 6 (1995): 459-472. Tables.

Studies variations in terms assigned to a

document by several indexers.

1112 Bryant, Eric. "Network or perish,"

says ARL. Library Journal 121 no. 6 (Apr.

1, 1996): 15-16.

Indexers and abstractors consider

cooperation in the digital future (1996

National Federation of Abstracting and

Indexing Services conference).

1113 Frame, Andrea. Indexers and

publishers: their views on indcxers and

indexing. Indexer 20 no. 2 (Oct. 1996):

58-64. Tables.

Summary of survey conducted of indexers

and editors in the United Kingdom.

1114 Hine, Janet D. Towards a modest

code of ethics for indexers. Australian

Society of Indexers Newsletter 20 no. 8

(Sept. 1996): 2-3.

[see also Australian Society of Indexers

Newsletter 20 no. 2 (Mar. 1996): 2-4].

1115 Kascus, Marie A. Indexing, in theory

and practice. In: Technical services

management, 1965-1990: a quarter century

of change and a look to the future, edited by

Linda C. Smith and Ruth C. Carter,

241-258. New York: Haworth Press, 1996.

Provides a brief history of indexing,

followed by sections on indexing literature,

indexing as a profession, professional

indexing organizations, indexing software,

machine indexing and evaluation, and a

view to the future.

1116 Rotondo, Susan. The business of

being in business. Part I. Key Words 3 no. 2

(Mar.-Apr. 1995): 10-14. Bibliography.

Considers all aspects of setting up and

conducting a business.

1117 Thomas, Dorothy. American Society

of Indexers oral history. Vol. I: a time to

look back and a time to look ahead. Port

Aransas, TX: American Society of Indexers,

1995. 83 p. Review by Hazel K. Bell in

Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 45.

1118 Walker, Dwight. AusSI Web

indexing prize. Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr.

1996): 6-7. Bibliography.

Describes a World Wide Web index;

bibliographic Web indexes; and constructing

the index. CINDEX and MACREX software

are recommended.

1119 Wellisch, Hans H.

Looking back, looking forward. Indexer 20

no. I (Apr. 1996): 2.

Celebrates and discusses the contents of The

Indexer, vols 1 -19 (1958-1995) under the

editorship of Hazel K. Bell.

INDEXES

(see also 1103)

1120 Godby, Jean. Two techniques for the

identification of phrases in full text. In:

Annual review ofOCLC research 1994,

28-31. Dublin, OH: OCLC Online

Computer Library Center, 1995.

Compares two methods for improving the

search and browse indexes of full text

documents - by identifying phrases using

noun phrase parsers, and applying

association and frequency statistics to the

text.

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1121 Imholtz, August A., Jr. Indexer

nascitur, non fit — Lewis Carroll as indexer

again. Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 11-13.

Illus.

Discussion of the author's indexes,

including Sylvie and Bruno, as well as his

letter register system for recording personal

correspondence.

1122 Richardson, Ruth; Thorne, Robert.

The Builder illustrations index 1843-1883.

London: The Builder Group and Hutton and

Rostron in association with the Institute of

Historical Research, 1994. Review by

Geraldine Beare in Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr.

1996): 45-46.

1123 Wicks, Wendy K. The view from Alia

Vista. NFA1S Newsletter 38 no. 6 (June

1996): 85,87-89.

Digital Equipment Corporation's new search

engine for the World Wide Web, Alta Vista,

was created in 1995 by combining a fast

Web crawler with scalable indexing

software. The resulting index is one of the

largest and most used on the Web.

INDEXING MANUALS

(see also 1239)

1124 Wellisch, Hans H. Indexing from A to

Z: second edition, revised and enlarged.

New York: H.W. Wilson, 1996. 569 p.

Bibliography. Figures. Tables. Review by

Hazel K. Bell in Journal of Documentation

53 no. 1 (Jan. 1997): 93-95.

1125 Wellisch, Hans H. Indexing the

continuum of verbal texts. Learned

Publishing 10 no. 1 (Jan. 1997): 15-19.

Deals with the indexing requirements of

such verbal texts as books, periodicals, and

databases.

INDEXING NEWSPAPERS AND

SERIAL PUBLICATIONS

(see also 1125, 1142, 1147)

1126 Clarke, Michele. Retrieving

information from scientific periodicals.

Learned Publishing 9 no. 4 (Oct. 1996):

219-223.

1127 Cunnew, Robert. The analytic OPAC:

incorporating a journal index in an online

catalogue using CAIRS and AACR2.

Catalogue and Index no. 118 (Winter 1995):

1-5.

CAIRS (database).

1128 Curl, Margo Warner. Enhancing

subject and keyword access to periodical

abstracts and indexes: possibilities and

problems. Cataloging and Classification

Quarterly 20 no. 4 (1995): 45-55.

Bibliography.

1129 Kilcullen, Maureen; Spohn, Melissa.

Indexing a local newspaper using dBASE

IV. IndexerlOno. 1 (Apr. 1996): 16-17,22.

Creation and design of an index database to

the local newspaper, Canton Repository, for

use in the Kent State University Libraries.

1130 Richter, Carole J.; Wesley, Threasa L.

IAC and UMI go head-to-head on full text: a

comparison of Expanded Academic Index

via SearchBank and Periodical Abstracts

Research II with PowerPages. Database 19

no. 4 (Aug.-Sept. 1996): 62-66,68-71.

Tables.

Information Access (IAC).

INDEXING SERVICES AND

DATABASES

(see also 1086, 1105, 1112, 1130)

1131 Bechtel, Rosanna M., ed. A brief

history of the Abstract Bulletin of the

Institute of Paper Science and Technology

[ABIPST]. Publishing Research Quarterly

11 no. 3 (Fall 1995): 145-151. Tables.

First published in 1930, PAPERCHEM is

ABIPST's online database. Topics are of

interest to the pulp and paper industry.

1132 Briggs, Kim; Crowlesmith, Ian.

EM BASE — the Excerpta Medica database:

quick and comprehensive drug information.

Publishing Research Quarterly 11 no. 3

(Fall 1995): 51-60. Figures. Tables.

1133 Chall, Miriam; Owen, Terry M.

Documenting the world's sociological

literature: Sociological Abstracts.


(Fall 1995): 83-95. Figures. Tables.

1134 Crandall, Mike; Swenson, Mark C.

Integrating electronic information through a

corporate Web. Computer Networks and

ISDN Systems 28 no. 7-11 (May 1996):

1175-1186. Figures.

The experience of the Boeing technical

libraries in organizing World Wide

Web-integrated electronic information

through a central validation and indexing

service, and then making it available to the

entire company.

1135 Ekwurzel, Drucilla. The history and

scope of the American Economic

Association's EconLit and the Economic

Literature Index. Publishing Research

Quarterly 11 no. 3 (Fall 1995): 104-108.

Tables.

1136 Freedman, Bernadette. Growth and

change in the world's biological literature as

reflected in BIOSIS publications. Publishing

Research Quarterly 11 no. 3 (Fall 1995):


1137 Hawkwood, Bonnie. Sidebar 3:

editing an electronic database. Library Hi

Tech 12 no. 3 (1994): 96.

Provides a summary of the ABI/INFORM

database's editorial processes, including

editing, indexing, and abstracting.

1138 Hitti, Angela, ed. Secondary

publishing in changing times: profile of

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Publishing

Research Quarterly 11 no. 3 (Fall 1995):

80-82. Tables.

1139 Jackson, Olivia A. INFO-SOUTH:

leading the way on the information

superhighway to Latin America and the

Caribbean. Publishing Research Quarterly

11 no. 3 (Fall 1995): 109-116. Figures.

Tables.

Database provides English-language

abstracts based on English as well as

non-English language articles.

1140 Kaser, Richard T. Network or perish:

publishing in the new millenium; highlights

of the 1996 annual conference. NFAIS

Newsletter 38 no. 4/5 (Apr.-May 1996):


Issue devoted to excerpts from principle

papers delivered at the annual conference of

the National Federation of Abstracting and

Indexing Services.

1141 Kaser, Richard T. Secondary

information services: mirrors of scholarly

communication; forces and trends.


(Fall 1995): 10-24.

The history of indexing and abstracting

services in the United States is discussed,

along with the viability of continued

comprehensive coverage of the scholarly

literature.

1142 Miller, Betty. A comparison of the

Academic Index on CD-ROM with four

Wilson indexes on the OPAC. Online and

CD-ROM Review 19 no. 4 (Aug. 1995):

207-210. Bibliography. Figures.

The following Wilson indexes are used:

General Science Index, Humanities Index,

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, and

Social Science Index.

1143 O'Connor, Adam P.J.; Mackenzie,

Barbara Dobbs. Statistics ofRILM:

Repertoire International de Litterature

Musicah. Publishing Research Quarterly 11

no. 3 (Fall 1995): 127-128. Tables.

1144 Piggott, Mary. Some post-war

developments in indexing in Great Britain.

In: Technical services management,

1965-1990: a quarter century of change and

a look to the future, edited by Linda C.

Smith and Ruth C. Carter, 259-272. New

York: Haworth Press, 1996.

Includes notes on thesauri, online indexing

services, British standards, automatic

indexing, as well as the role of the Society

of Indexers.

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1145 Preschel, Barbara M. Evolution and

revolution at PA IS: technology and

concepts. Publishing Research Quarterly 11

no. 3 (Fall 1995): 96-103. Tables.

Changes in index design, production

methods, and subject coverage for Public

Affairs Information Service, Inc. (PAIS).

1146 Quimby, Peter, cd. Statistics of

Historical Abstracts and America: History

and Life databases. Publishing Research

Quarterly 11 no. 3 (Fall 1995): 124-126.

Figures.

1147 Raloff, J. New efforts to dccloak

'invisible' science. Science News 148 no. 4

(July 22, 1995): 55.

Discusses how commercial indexing and

abstracting services, such as Science

Citation Index, tend to ignore the vast

majority of the world's non-English

language scientific journals, thus creating an

underrepresentation of scientists and a bias

against research from developing countries.

1148 Reynolds, Judy. A brave new world:

user studies in the humanities enter the

electronic age. Reference Librarian no.

49/50(1995): 61-81.

Design of access and indexing systems for

the humanities.

1149 Sylvia, Margaret. Too many

concerns? Paper or online, local or remote,

full text or index. In: Introducing and

managing academic library automation

projects, 53-61. Westport, CT: Greenwood

Press, 1996. Bibliography.

Examines factors for making a useful

decision regarding the purchase of paper or

some form of electronic indexes for libraries.

1150 Ubico, Rafael E., el al. Statistical

analysis of theTULSA database,

1965-1994. Publishing Research Quarterly

11 no. 3 (Fall 1995): 138-144. Tables.

Coverage of the database is worldwide, and

includes technical literature as well as

patents.

INDEXING SOFTWARE

(sec 1088,1094, 1115, 1118, 1123, 1129,

1196, 1225,1245)

INDEXING SPECIAL MATERIALS

AND FORMATS

(see also 1106, 1121. 1125, 1173, 1176,

1180, 1192, 1202, 1203, 1218, 1219, 1222,

1252)

1151 Austin, David L. An image is not an

object: but it can help. In: Resource

Sharing: New Technologies as a Must for

Universal Availability of Information, I6th

International Essen Symposium, 18-21

October 1993, edited by Ahmed H. Hclal

and Joachim W. Weiss, 277-296. Essen,

Germany: Universitatsbibliothek Essen,

1994. Figures.

Project provides access to photographs.

1152 Bell, Hazel K. [Book review.]

Logos 6 no. 4 (1995): 222-223.

Review of Indexing books (University of

Chicago Press, 1994), edited by Nancy C.

Mulvany (see item 779).

1153 Bell, Hazel K. There's more to an

indcx...W<?*er20no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 14.

Back-of-thc-book indexes that also serve as

glossaries, with excerpts from Oliver

Slallybrass' annotated index to E.M.

Fowler's Aspects of the Novel. Example of

expanded/enhanced entries.

1154 Braun, Janice; Hopkins, Lola

Raykovic. Collection-level cataloging,

indexing, and preservation of the Hoover

Institution Pamphlet Collection on

Revolutionary Change in Twentieth Century

Europe. Technical Services Quarterly 12 no.

4(1995): 1-8.

1155 Cousins, Garry. Conceptual indexing

for CD-ROMs: beyond free text searching.

Australian Society oflndexers Newsletter 20

no. 7 (Aug. 1996): 4-6.

1156 Dixon, Yvonne. Indexing for children.

Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 8-10, 15.

Bibliography.

Problems are considered, along with ways in

which the quality of children's indexes

could be remedied, and the inclusion of

indexes in children's books ensured.

1157 Ebbs, Heather. Indexing bilingual

documents. Indexing and Abstracting

Society of Canada Bulletin 18 no. 2 (June

1996): 6-7.

Discusses a typically Canadian indexing

problem.

1158 Larsgaard, Mary. Cataloging

geospatial data in digital form. Geography

and Map Division Bulletin no. 181 (Oct.

1995): 2-22. Bibliography. Illus.

1159 Larson, Ray R. Geographic

information retrieval and spatial browsing.

In: Geographic Information Systems and

Libraries: Patrons, Maps, and Spatial

Information: Papers Presented at the 1995

Clinic on Library Applications of Data

Processing, April 10-12, edited by Linda C.

Smith and Myke Gluck, 81-123. Urbana, IL:

Graduate School of Library and Information

Science, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, 1996. Bibliography.

Figures.

Examines problems and prospects of

indexing methods for digital library

materials with geographic associations or

content.

1160 Lee, J.D. [Book review.] Indexer 20

no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 47.

Indexing collections of electronic images: a

review, by A.E. Cawkell (Boston Spa:

British Library Research and Development

Department, 1993). (see also item no. 625).

1161 Nuyts, Anncmie. A new dimension in

patent indexing and searching: the use of

navigation tools. In: Proceedings of the

1995 International Chemical Information

Conference, Nimes, France, 23-25 October

1995,78-88. Calnc, England: Infonortics

Ltd., 1995. Figures.

The European Patent Office's EPOQUE

system (workstation, databases, and

software), and the First PAGE software.

1162 Ojala, Marydee. Exploring joint

ventures online. Online 20 no. 3 (May-June

1996): 56-58.

Discusses the indexing of joint ventures,

joint-venture corporate names, and the use

of joint venture concepts as descriptors or

subject headings.

1163 Petraglia, Gennaro, et al. Rotation

invariant iconic indexing for image database

retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 7th

International Conference on Image Analysis

and Processing: Progress in Image Analysis

and Processing III, Capitolo, Monopoli,

Italy, 20-22 September 1993, edited by

Sebastiano Impedovo, 271-278. Singapore:

World Scientific, 1994. Bibliography.

Figures. Tables.

Pictorial indexing methodologies.

1164 Schlicke, Priscilla. Multimedia:

strategies for visual information.

Information Management Report (Oct.


Considers the indexing of image databases.

1165 Taubcs, Gary. Indexing the Internet.

Science (Washington, DC) 269 no. 5229 (8

Sept., 1995): 1354-1357. Illus.

1166 Thomas, Sarah E. Organizing

multimedia collections. European Research

Libraries Cooperation 5 no. 2 (1995):

128-130.

Problems encountered by the Library of

Congress in cataloguing and indexing the

digitized collections of multimedia

materials. Emphasis is on photographic

resources.

1167 Turner, James M. Comparing

user-assigned terms with indexer-assigned

terms for storage and retrieval of moving

images: research results. In: ASIS '95:

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of

the American Society for Information

Science, Chicago, IL, October 9-12, 1995,

edited by Tom Kinney, vol. 32, 9-12.

Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1995.

Tables.

The National Film Board of Canada's

stockshot collection is used for the study.



1168 Weinberg, Bella Hass. The body of a

reference work in relation to its index: an

analysis of Wordsmanship. Imlexer 20 no. 1

(Apr. 1996): 18-22. Figures.

Reviews and analyses Wordsmanship: a

dictionary, by Claurcne duGran (Essex, CT;

Aylesbury, Bucks: Verbatim, The Language

Quarterly, 1981. 95 p.). The advantage of

consulting indexers at the design stage of

reference books is also discussed.

Wordsmanship is Laurence Urdang's

pseudonymous spoof of dictionaries.

1169 Williams, Bernard J.S. Document

management or heap management: a report

of DTM95 conference. Information

Management and Technology 29 no. 1 (Jan.

1996): 31,40. Illus.

Reviews problems associated with the

indexing of photographs [Document and

Text Management (DTM) conference].

INDEXING SYSTEMS

(see also 1089, 1206, 1211)

1170 Bricklin, D., et al. Graphic indexing

system. July 23, 1996. U.S. Patent No.

5539427.

1171 Zweigenbaum, Pierre. MENELAS: an

access system for medical records using

natural language. Computer Methods and

Programs in Biomedicine 45 no. 1,2 (Oct.

1994): 117-120.

The MENELAS (medical records access

system) provides better access in natural

language to patient discharge summaries

(PDSs). A French language experimental

version of the MENELAS indexing

prototype has also been assembled.

INDEXING TECHNIQUES

(sec also 1093, 1155,1162, 1170)

1172 Booth, Pat F., ed. How we index:

six ways to work. Indexer 20 no. 2 (Oct.

1996): 89-92.

Indexers Gill Riordan, Barbara Britton,

Richard Raper, Jean Simpkins, John

Vickers, and Pat Booth outline their day to

day work methods.

1173 Jones, G.J.F., et al. Retrieving

spoken documents by combining multiple

index sources. In: SIGIR 96: Proceedings of

the 19th Annual International A CM SIGIR

Conference on Research and Development

in Information Retrieval, August 18-22,

1996, Zurich, Switzerland, edited by

Hans-Peter Frei et al, 30-38. New York:

Association for Computing Machinery,

1996. Bibliography. Figures. Tables.

1174 Lee, Joon Ho; Ahn, Jcong Soo.

Using n-grams for Korean text retrieval. In:

SIGIR 96: Proceedings of the 19th Annual

International ACMSIGIR Conference on

Research and Development in Information

Retrieval, August 18-22. 1996. Zurich.

Switzerland, edited by Hans-Peter Frei et al,

216-224. New York: Association for

Computing Machinery, 1996. Bibliography.

Figures. Tables.

Proposes a new indexing method for the

Korean language by combining n-gram and

word-based indexing. Results to date show

that the proposed method is almost as

effective as morpheme based indexing.

1175 O'Connor, Brian C. Explorations in

indexing and abstracting: pointing, virtue,

and power. Englewood, CO: Libraries

Unlimited, 1996. Bibliography. Figures.

Tables.

1176 Walker, Dvvight. Web indexing: an

exercise in hypertext navigation. Australian

Society oflndexers Newsletter 20 no. 9 (Oct.

1996): 4-9. Bibliography. Figures.

Provides a background regarding the

challenge of indexing the World Wide Web

followed by a discussion of hypertext, Web

indexing tools, specifications for and

creating a Web index, and bibliographic

Web indexing.

INDEXING VOCABULARIES

(see also 1095, 1195, 1203. 1207, 1221)

1177 Cimino, James J. Vocabulary and

health care information technology: state of

the art. Journal of the American Society for

Information Science 46 no. 10 (Dec. 1995):

777-782. Bibliography. Figures.

Reviews medical vocabularies available at

present, and describes efforts being made to

correct shortcomings.

1178 Daranyi, Sandor, et al. Conceptual

mapping of a database in the humanities:

first results of an experiment with Sophia.

Journal of Documentation 52 no. I (Mar.

1996): 86-99. Figures. Tables.

The grouping of documents and their index

terms simultaneously leads to broader, more

general thesaurus entries which

conceptualize and denote major semantic

space dimensions.

1179 Green, Rebecca. Syntagmatic

relationships of index languages: a

reassessment. Library Quarterly 65 no. 4

(Oct. 1995): 365-385.

1180 Kuo, Tony C.T.; Chen, Arbcc L.P. A

content-based query language for video

databases. In: Proceedings of the

International Conference on Multimedia

Computing and Systems, June 17-23, 1996,

Hiroshima, Japan, 209-214. Los Alamitos,

CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.

Bibliography. Figures.

Discusses the CVQL (Content-based Video

Query Language) for video databases,

including query processing and index

structures.

1181 Milstead, Jessica L. Vocabulary

management and database quality. NFAIS

Newsletter 37 no. 5 (May 1995): 49, 51-52.

KEYWORD INDEXING

(see also 1128,1178)

1182 Alvarez, Pedro; Purgarin, Antonio.

TheRasch model; measuring information

from keywords: the diabetes field. Journal

of the American Society for Information

Science 47 no. 6 (June 1996): 468-476.

Bibliography. Tables.

1183 McJunkin, Monica Cahill. Precision

and recall in title keyword searches.

Information Technology and Libraries 14

no. 3 (Sept. 1995): 161-171. Tables.

Role of the adjacency operators in the

FirstSearch database service from OCLC.

1184 Torre, Diane S. KSR: Keywording for

Subject Retrieval. Art Documentation 14 no.

2 (Summer 1995): 29-35. Figures.

LEGAL ASPECTS OF INDEXING

1185 Browne, Glenda. Professional

liability of indexcrs. Indexer 20 no. 2 (Oct.

1996): 70-73. Bibliography. Also in

Australian Society oflndexers Newsletter 20

no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1996): 2-3.

Overview of implications for electronic

information services, based on journal

articles from Australia, Britain, Europe, and

the United States.

NAME INDEXES

(see 1162)

PRECIS

1186 Pansegrouw, J.G. Die begrippe spesie,

klas en vcrsameling in verhouding tot

indekscringsteorie [The concepts, species,

class and set in relation to indexing theory].

South African Journal of Library and

Information Science 63 no. 4 (Dec. 1995):

173-178. Bibliography. (In Afrikaans)

Problems selected from PRECIS and the

work of P. Das-Gupta, as they relate to

indexing theory.

STANDARDS

(see also 1144, 1221)

1187 Calvert, Drusilla. Deconstructing

indexing standards. Indexer 20 no. 2 (Oct.

1996): 74-78.

Focus is on the differences between

BS37OO:1988 and the forthcoming ISO999.



SUBJECT INDEXING

(see also 1089, 1095, 1111, 1128, ! 158,

1159, 1161, 1167, 1177, 1178, 1183,1184,

1243, 1244)

1188 Aptagiri, Devika V., et al. A

frame-based knowledge representation

paradigm for automating POPSI. Knowledge

Organization 22 no. 3/4 (1995): 162-167.

Bibliography.

Postulate-Based Permuted Subject Indexing

(POPSI) is a context- based indexing

system, which assigns indicators and

produces subject strings for titles.

1189 Bertrand-Gastaldy, Suzanne, et al.

Convergent theories: using a

multidisciplinary approach to explain

indexing results. In: AS1S '95: Proceedings

of the 58th Annual Meeting of the American

Society for Information Science, Chicago,

IL, October 9-12, 1995, edited by Tom

Kinney, vol. 32, 56-60. Mcdford, NJ:

Information Today, 1995.

1190 Broadbcnt, E. Classification access in

the online catalog. Cataloging and

Classification Quarterly 21 no. 2 (1995):

119-142. Illus.

Two types of indexes to Library of Congress

classification are discussed - an index using

Library of Congress subject headings and a

chain index. Suggests that an index to

classification numbers could take other

forms as well.

1191 Brown, Lorene Byron. Subject

headings for African -American materials.

Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.

118 p. Bibliography.

1192 Chapplc-Sokol, Angie. Indexing

editorial cartoons. Special Libraries 87 no. I

(Winter 1996): 21-31.

1193 Connell, Tschera Harkness. Subject

cataloging. In: Technical Services

Management, 1965-1990: A quarter century

of change and a look to the future, edited by

Linda C. Smith and Ruth C. Carter,

211-222. New York: Haworth Press, 1996.

1194 Down, Nancy. Subject access to

individual works of fiction: participating in

the OCLC/LC Fiction Project. Cataloging

and Classification Quarterly 20 no. 2

(1995): 61-69.

The OCLC/LC Fiction Project is described

from the viewpoint of a participating

cataloguer.

1195 Duncan, Donna. IFLA Core

Programme for Universal Bibliographic

Control and International MARC (UBCIM)

and Division of Bibliographic Control

reports on activities 1994-1995: Section on

Classification and Indexing. International

Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control 25

no. 1 (Jan./Mar. 1996): 6-7.

Principles underlying subject heading

languages, state-of-the-art summary of

subject heading systems, and requirements

for a format for classification data.

1196 Edelblute, T. A Pro-Cite authority file

on a network. Technical Setvices Quarterly

12 no. 3 (1995): 29-40. Figures.

Creation of a subject authority file using

Pro-Cite software for the U.S. Department

of Agricultural Research Service and the

Agricultural Engineering Faculty,

University of Missouri.

1197 Errington, Laurence. [Book review.]

fndexer 20 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 47.

Indexing the medical and biological

sciences, by Doreen Blake et al. (London:

Society of Indexers, 1995). (see also item

no. 1027).

1198 Fugmann, Robert. [Book review.]

Library Resources and Technical Services

39 no. 3 (July 1995): 323-331.

Bibliographies.

Comments upon review of his work, Subject

analysis and indexing: theoretical

foundation and practical advice (see item

752), by Bella Hass Weinberg (Library

Resources and Technical Services 38 no. 3

(1994): 324-326). Response by Prof.

Weinberg.

1199 Green, Rebecca. Topical relevance

relationships. 1. Why topic matching fails.

2. An exploratory study and preliminary

typology. Journal of the American Society

for Information Science 46 No. 9 (Oct.

1995): 646-662. Bibliographies. Tables.

1200 Irving, Holly, cait: Computer-Assisted

Indexing Tutor: implemented for training at

N AL. Agricultural Libraries Information

Notes 21 nos. 4-6 (Apr.-June 1995): 1-4,5.

Illus.

Describes the U.S. National Agricultural

Library (NAL) Indexing Branch's

computer-assisted training program in

subject indexing for the AGRICOLA

bibliographic database.

1201 Kaula, P.N. [Book review.] Herald of

Library Science 34 nos. 3-4 (July-Oct.

1995): 262-263.

Subject headings for children: a list of

subject headings used by the Library of

Congress with Dewey numbers added (New

York: Forest Press, 1994).

1202 Khurshid, Zahiruddin. Improvisations

in cataloging of theses and dissertations.

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 20

no. 2 (1995): 51-59. Figures.

Experience of the King Fahd University of

Petroleum and Minerals Library in Dhahran,

Saudi Arabia.

1203 Lambert, Nancy. Online statistical

techniques as patent search tools: not for

patent searchers only. Part 1: Patent

indexing, patent citations. Database 19 no. 1

(Feb.-Mar. 1996): 74-78.

Focus is on using techniques to find and

analyse controlled-vocabulary indexing as

well as subject coding.

1204 Lee-Smeltzer, Janet; Hackleman, Deb.

Access to OSU theses and dissertations in

Kerr Library: how they are used...or are

they? Technical Services Quarterly 12 no. 4

(1995): 25-43. Bibliography. Figures.

Oregon State University (OSU) Library's

decision regarding the assigning of Library

of Congress subject headings to doctoral

dissertations and master's theses.

1205 Martin, Giles. Possible subject

headings for the Aboriginal peoples of

Australia. Cataloguing Australia 20 no. 4

(Dec. 1994): 95-107. Bibliography.

1206 McMurdo, George. How the Internet

was indexed. Journal of Information

Science 21 no. 6 (1995): 479-489. Illus.

Describes characteristics and identifies

scope of first three generations of automated

Internet indexing systems.

1207 Meikle, David. Syndetic structure and

OPACs: a literature review. Cataloguing

Australian no. 1 (Mar. 1995): 19-35.

Bibliography.

Syndetic structure is the cross-reference

system for controlled vocabulary subject

headings lists.

1208 Mikacic, Mira. Statistical System for

Subject Designation (SSSD) for libraries in

Croatia. Cataloging and Classification

Quarterly 22 no. 1 (1996): 77-93. Illus.

The SSSD syntactical system is based on the

construction of subject headings in

agreement with the theory of the sentence

nature of the subject heading.

1209 Mowery, Robert L. Subject cataloging

of Chicano literature. Library Resources and

Technical Services 39 no. 3 (July 1995):

229-237. Bibliography.

1210 Neely, Teresa Y. Using subject

terminology and classification to provide

effective reference service to diverse

populations. Colorado Libraries 21 no. 2

(Summer 1995): 22-26. Bibliography.

Tables.

Deals with the historical treatment and

current classification of African-American

subject matter. Examples are provided of

searches carried out on CARL catalogues,

Education Index, INFOTRAC, and Reader's

Guide to Periodical Literature.



1211 Nic, Jian-Yun, et al. On Chinese text

retrieval. In: S1GIR 96: Proceedings of the

19th Annual International A CM S1GIR



1996, Zurich, Switzerland, edited by



1996. Bibliography. Figures. Tables.

Suggests that Chinese text retrieval be based

on words rather than characters, and

describes how the SMART information

retrieval system was adapted for indexing

segmented Chinese texts. An attempt at

integrating a Chinese thesaurus is also

discussed.

1212 Park, Hongseok. Inferential

representation of science documents.


32 no. 4 (July 1996): 419-429.


Emphasizes the need for indexing

consistency in order to ensure accurate

document retrieval.

1213 Sadowska, Jadwiga. Jezyk hasel w

katalogu Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Stefana

Batorego w Wilnie [Subject entries in the

catalogue of the Stefan Batory University

library in Vilnius]. Bibliotekarz no. 9

(1994): 16-19. (In Polish)

1214 Schatz, Bruce, et al. Federating

diverse collections of scientific literature.

Computer 29 no. 5 (May 1996): 28-36.

Figures.

The University of Illinois Digital Library

Initiative project is developing an

infrastructure for indexing scientific

documents so that it would be possible to

search multiple Internet sources as a single

federated digital library.

1215 Share, Michael. An alternative

approach to Australian geographic

subdivision. Cataloguing Australia 20 no. 2

(June 1994): 43-47.

An alternative to the Australian

Bibliographic Network (ABN) and Library

of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) for

indirect geographic subdivision of headings

which involve Australian geographic names.

Comparative lists are provided.

1216 Stanley, Janet. Reference librarian

as a cataloger: analytical indexing as

front-end reference. Art Documentation 14

no. 4 (Winter 1995): 7-9.

Choice of materials, subject analysis, and

depth of indexing.

1217 Triffitt, Geraldine. The catalogues of

the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander Studies Library.

Cataloguing Australia 20 no. 4 (Dec. 1994):


Discusses the subject catalogue, language

codes, and the Aboriginal bibliographic

index.

1218 Van der Starre, Jan. Verraderlijk, er

staat niet wat er staat: ontsluiting van

afbeeldingcn [Beware, it's not what it

appears: providing access to picture

collections]. Open 28 no. 3 (1996): 68-71.

Bibliography. Illus. (In Dutch)

1219 Ventress, Alan; Anemaat, Louise. The

Banks Papers on CD-ROM project at the

State Library of New South Wales. LAS1E

26 nos. 1, 2, & 3 (July-Dec. 1995): 18-27.

Bibliography.

Process of digitizing, indexing, and

transferring to CD-ROM of botanist Sir

Joseph Banks' papers.

1220 Wilkes, Adeline; Nelson, Antoinette.

Subject searching in two online catalogs:

authority control vs. non-authority control.

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 20

no. 4 (1995): 57-79. Tables.

1221 Williamson, Nancy J. Standards and

rules for subject access. Cataloging and

Classification Quarterly 21 no. 3/4 (1996):

155-176.

1222 Wormell, I. Indizacidn SAP para la

cxploraci6n del amplio contexto temiitico de

libros y para el acceso a entidades

semanticas mas pequenas [SAP indexing for

exploring the full thematic context of books

and for access to smaller semantic entities].

Ciencias de la Informacion 25 no. 4 (Dec.

1994): 178-186. Figures. (In Spanish)

Describes the Subject Access Project (SAP)

indexing method used at Lund University in

Sweden, for enriching MARC-like

bibliographic catalogue records with terms

from tables of contents and

back-of-lhc-book indexes.

THESAURI

(see also 1083, 1144, 1178, 1181, 1211,

1253)

1223 Adeniran, O.R.; Adigun, AT.

Retro-conversion exercise in an online

thesaurus environment: a post

card-catalogue conversion experience at the

International Institute of Tropical

Agriculture in Ibadan. Program 30 no. 3

(July 1996): 285-287.

1224 Amba, S., et al. Automatic linking of

thesauri. In: S1GIR 96: Proceedings of the

19th Annual International ACM S1GIR



1996. Zurich, Switzerland, edited by



1996. Bibliography. Tables.

Includes a description of a case study

linking terms from the Thesaurus of

Psychological Index Terms and the

Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors.

1225 Biggs, Deb Renee. ProCite in

libraries: applications in bibliographic

database management. Medford, NJ:

Learned Information [Information Today],

1995. 256 p. Bibliography. Figures. Tables.

Use of the Pro-Cite bibliographic software.

1226 Chan, Lois Mai. Classification,

present and future. Cataloging and


5-17.

Use of classification in thesaurus

construction and development.

1227 Channing Rodgers, R.P. Automated

retrieval from multiple disparate information

sources: the World Wide Web and the

NLM's Sourcerer project. Journal of the

American Society for Information Science

46 no. 10 (Dec. 1995): 755-764.


The Sourcerer project of the U.S. National

Library of Medicine is a research

application which is hypertext-based and

builds upon all Unified Medical Language

System (UMLS) knowledge sources,

including the Mctathesaurus and the

Information Sources Map (ISM).

1228 Dahlberg, Ingetraut. Faceted

classification and terminology. In: TKE '93

Terminology and Knowledge Engineering:

Proceedings Third International Congress

on Terminology and Knowledge

Engineering, 25-27 August 1993, Cologne,

Federal Republic of Germany, edited by

Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, 225-234.

Frankfurt/Main: Indeks Verlag, 1993.

1229 Flater, David W.; Yesha, Yelena.

Towards flexible distrubuted information

retrieval. In: Advanced database systems,

edited by Nabil R. Adam and Bharat K.

Bhargava, 259-276. Berlin: Springer-

Verlag, 1993. Figures.

Construction and use of thesauri and

dictionaries for information retrieval.

1230 Fujiwara, Yuzuru, et al. Management

and advanced utilization of semantically

organized terminology and knowledge. In:

TKE '93 Terminology and Knowledge

Engineering: Proceedings Third

International Congress on Terminology and

Knowledge Engineering, 25-27 August

1993, Cologne, Federal Republic of

Germany, edited by Klaus-Dirk Schmitz,

141-151. Frankfurt/Main: Indeks Verlag,

1993. Figures.

Automatic extraction of equivalent as well

as hierarchical relationships is discussed.

1231 Gagnon-Arguin, Louise. L'analyse

documentaire 1: les thesaurus en France

[Archival description 1: thesauri in France].

Archives (Quebec) 27 no. 1 (Summer 1995):

55-72. Bibliography. (In French)



1232 Gillum, Terry L, el al. An auto-

encoder for clinical and regulatory data

processing. Drug Information Journal 29

no. I (Jan.-Mar. 1995): 107-113. Tables.

Describes the computer driven terminology

processing autoencoder system.

Components of the autoencoder include a

dictionary of clinical and therapy terms, as

well as a thesaurus or word substitution file.

1233 Hanani, Uri. Intelligent hypertext: a

framework for automatic search guidance

system. In: Online Information 95: 19th

International Online Information Meeting

Proceedings, London 5-7 December 1995,

edited by David I. Raitt and Ben Jcapes,

219-229. Oxford: Learned Information

Europe Ltd., 1995. Figures.

The Intelligent Automatic Search Guide

(IASG) thesaurus is used to enhance the

search process.

1234 Karisiddappa, C.R.; Prasad, A.R.D.

Declarative programming and thesaurus

construction. 1ASLICBulletin 38 no. 4 (Dec.


Deals with the programming language,

Prolog.

1235 Kohn, Roger S. Climbing Benjacob's

ladder: an evaluation of Vinograd's

Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book. Judaica

Librarianship 9 no. 1-2 (Spring

1994-Winter 1995): 17-28. Bibliography.

Figures. Tables.

1236 Lambert, Nancy. Of thesauri and

computers: reflections on the need for

thesauri. Searclier 3 no. 8 (Sept. 1995): 18,

20, 22-23.

1237 Lanzi, Elisa. The linguistic challenge

of a multilingual AAT. Art Documentation

14 no. 2 (Summer 1995): 19.

Session on the Art and Architecture

Thesaurus at the ARLIS/NA conference in

1995.

1238 Lincicum, Shirley. Critical appraisal

of the use of classification in the future —

non-traditional uses of classification: report

of a panel discussion. Cataloging and


87-89.

Discusses the concept of a multilingual,

multifunctional thesaurus.

1239 McCarthy, Anne. [Book review.]

lndexer 20 no. 2 (Oct. 1996): 108.

Review of the Unesco Thesaurus, which

includes guidelines for indexing documents.

1240 Merkl, Dieter, et al. Analysis of legal

thesauri based on self-organising feature

maps. In: Fourth International Conference

on 'Artificial Neural Networks,' 26-28 June

1995, Cambridge. U.K., 29-34. London:

IEE, 1995. Bibliography. Figures. Tables.

Application of T. Kohonen's self-organising

feature map (used for analysis of legal

thesauri) to a set of legal text documents.

1241 Merkl, Dieter, et al, CONCAT —

connotation analysis of thesauri based on the

interpretation of context meaning. In:

Database and Expert Systems Applications:

5th International Conference, DEXA '94,

Athens, Greece, September 7-9, 1994,

Proceedings, edited by Dimitris

Karagiannis, 329-338. Berlin:

Springer-Verlag, 1994. Bibliography.

Figures.

1242 Miller, Uri. The Sport Database: some

comments. Online and CD-ROM Review 20

no. 2 (Apr. 1996): 67-74.

Deficiencies of the database's Sport

Thesaurus, and ways in which it could be

improved.

1243 Moorcroft, Heather. Reflections on

constructing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander Thesaurus. Cataloging Australia 20

no. 4 (Dec. 1994): 108-111. Bibliography.

1244 Morrison, June. [Book review.]

Indexer 20 no. 1 (Apr. 1996): 49-50.

Review of The Marin Institute Thesaurus

(San Rafael, CA: Marin Institute for the

Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug

Related Problems, 1995).

1245 Muraszkiewicz, M.,etal.

MULTHES-ISIS: a flexible software for

multilingual thesaurus building. In: TKE '93






Klaus-Dirk Schmilz, 152-159.

Frankfurt/Main: Indcks Verlag, 1993.

Bibliography. Illus.

1246 Roulin, Corentin; Cooper, Cheryl.

Bringing thesauri together: terminological

problems and interests. In: TKE '93






Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, 251-259.

Frankfurt/Main: Indcks Verlag, 1993.

Deals primarily with multilingual thesauri.

1247 Schubert, Klaus. Parameters for the

design of an intermediate language for

multilingual thesauri. Knowledge

Organization 22 no. 3/4 (1995): 136-140.

Bibliography.

1248 Shapiro, Celia D.; Yan, Puck-Fai.

Generous tools: thesauri in digital libraries.

In: National Online Meeting 1996:

Proceedings of the 17th National Online

Meeting, New York, May 14-16, 1996,

edited by Martha E. Williams, 323-332.

Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996.

Figures.

1249 Smith, Martin P; Pollitt, A. Steven.

Ranking and relevance feedback extensions

to a view-based searching system. In:

Online Information 95: 19th International

Online Information Meeting Proceedings,

London 5-7 December 1995, edited by

David I. Raitt and Ben Jeapes, 231-240.

Oxford: Learned Information Europe Ltd.,

1995. Bibliography. Figures.

A University of Huddersfield study

investigates incorporating techniques for

ranking and relevance feedback into a

thesaurus-based searching system.

USE OF INDEXES

(see also 1087)

1250 Crawford, Gregory A. Varieties of

access: a comparison of databases available

via Z39.50, FirstSearch, and CD-ROM. In:

National Online Meeting 1996: Proceedings

of the 17th National Online Meeting, New

York, May 14-16, 1996, edited by Martha E.

Williams, 55-64. Medford, NJ: Information

Today, 1996. Tables.

Uses three versions of ABI/Inform and

PAIS databases to examine indexing,

printing and downloading capabilities, and

interface design for providing most useful

resources to Penn State Harrisburg faculty,

staff, and students.

1251 Harter, Stephen P.; Cheng, Yung-Rang.

Colinked descriptors: improving vocabulary

selection for end-user searching. Journal of

the American Society for Information

Science 47 no. 4 (Apr. 1996): 311-325.

Bibliography. Tables.

Study of the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors.

1252 Jorgensen, Corinne; Liddy, Elizabeth

D. Information access or information

anxiety? - an exploratory evaluation of book

index features. Indexer 20 no. 2 (Oct. 1996):


User study conducted to determine book

index usage in the print and electronic

environments.

1253 Srinivasan, Padmini. Query

expansion and MEDLINE. Information

Processing and Management 32 no. 4 (July

1996): 431-443. Bibliography. Tables.

Emphasizes the importance of MESH

indexes for accurate and efficient retrieval.

Cornell University's SMART retrieval

system was used for the project.


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