It's good to see ASI broadening its interest group outside of indexers to all in the indexing world. With Google and Yahoo! used so broadly I am sure indexing...
Actually, ASI members have long included indexers with interests in areas beyond books indexing. The only members ASI doesn't have are computers, whose ...
While not a computer, I am a computer programmer. And the word index does not equate to sort. The word index has referred to book indexes for centuries but...
From an article in today's NY Times. They not only write the books -- they also generate the index for each. The books can be profitably printed and sold one...
Hi everyone, I would like to arrange a meeting time for SIG members so that we can meet and get to know each other. This does not have to be at the time being...
You definitely need to sort data to find information. I guess there is also classification which gives more depth to the index. A thesaurus can help a person...
The Web-Indexing SIG of ASI will meet from 5:15 until 5:30PM on Friday, May 2, during the time frame designated for SIG and chapter meetings. If you have an...
I have just about completed the first stage of my Alphabetical Internet Index. << http://www.alphabeticalist.com >> My strategy has been to wade through 13...
My problem is with the whole enterprise: before seeking for ways to manually construct an internet index you need to demonstrate that a manually-constructed...
Hi Marty, You are missing step (0) -- determine whether there is a problem in the first place. You have _assumed_ that there is a problem with finding ...
... in part: "You are missing step (0) -- determine whether there is a problem in the first place. You have _assumed_ that there is a problem with finding...
New linked Internet indexes to "hobbies" and "sports" Here is our new linked index to hobbies -- just put up today. http://www.howto-ville.com/hobbies.html ...
About the Internet Public Library (IPL) -- one of the best Internet directories. A consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science...
Our website now points to 15 important and authoritative directories. We use their “topics” and "subjects" as a start for a controlled vocabulary. The...
Indexing the Internet -- a guide to some good articles on the subject. Evidently, it is no longer (2008) fashionable or even acceptable to consider the...
Dear All, My name is Margaret Pappas. I am a professional librarian however, I am VERY NEW to indexing. I have a book indexing project that will entail VERY...
Hi Margaret, Welcome to the web indexing SIG. Are you stating that you want to index the book and also include the exact paragraph, line and place where the...
Hi Margaret (and others) I may be missing the point of your email, having now deleted your original one, but your 'interesting' way (below) looks to be...
On a computer screen, a search say in Google, would highlight the word in the page in the results pages in bold or with some colour background such as yellow. ...
Can't you see that Google uses basic indexing skills like citation indexes and those facts don't change just are scaled using massive computer databases and...
I, Marty Carbone, originally wrote, in part: "Evidently, it is no longer (2008) fashionable or even acceptable to consider the question of "Internet indexing"....
Dear Dwight, I am intrigued by yourrecommendation and will go to the link you provide for more information re:'inverted indexes'. I truly appreciate you...
Hi, The June issue (vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 71-78) of The Indexer (Society of Indexers, UK) contains and article by Ilana Kingsley about Web site indexes: "The ...
Caveat: I'm a newbie, to indexing and to web indexing, but I read the article with interest. I wanted to put my ideas out there and see what other people...
Diana Tashjian
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I agree that users are (and have been for a while) more search-centric and don't understand the benefit of multiple information retrieval methods. Time swings...
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