1. Introduction: All library work is a matter of storage and retrieval of information, and cataloguing and indexing are specially performed to achieve that. Subject cataloguing…
Browsing: Indexing
Juran Sarkhel (2017). (Professor of Library & Information Science, University of Kalyani, India) 1.1 Introduction: Indexing language (IL) is an artificial language made up of expressions…
There has always been confusion about the distinction between ‘subject cataloguing’ and ‘subject indexing’. Basically, cataloguing is the process of creating bibliographic description of a document…
1.0 Introduction: An index is a guide to the items contained in or concepts derived from a collection. Item denotes any book, article, report, abstract review,…
An indexing system is a sub-system of an information retrieval system and hence, its performance is directly linked up with the overall performance of the entire…
Automatic Indexing: In many literatures of Library and Information Science, the term ‘automatic indexing’ is interchangeably used with the term ‘computerised indexing’. A fully automatic indexing…
Coordinate indexing, a system invented by Dr. Mortimer Tauhe and his associates in Documentation incorporated, is based on the conception of the uniterm. The theory is…
The digitalization of information has spawned many new concepts and terminology. One such term is folksonomy, which is a collaborative effort to create user-initiated classification systems.…
The basic purpose of an index or an abstract is effective and efficient access to information, either through structured records, such as books and databases, or…
Book index and Periodical indexing are two aspects of indexing system. Those have many differences. Some of them are mention below: Book Index Periodical index Compiled…