Tim Craven
Professor Emeritus,
Faculty of Information and Media Studies,
The University of Western Ontario.

Freeware - ExtPhr phrase extractor, NEPHIS string indexing system, TexNet abstractor's assistant, TheW thesaurus manager, and XRefHT Web indexing tool, in Windows and Java versions.
Thesaurus construction tutorial - Web-based module that teaches the basics of constructing an information retrieval thesaurus, with interactive quizzes.
Materials from past courses - Offered between 2001 and 2008 on Web site design, Internet information services, subject analysis and thesaurus construction, information technology, software evaluation, research methods, and database management systems
List of publications - From 1973 to 2006, mostly on computer-assisted abstracting, indexing, and thesaurus construction and on Web document descriptions.
String Indexing - Complete text of the 1986 book on computerized systems that use regular syntactic rules to produce index displays with multiple overlapping entries.
Unpublished papers - Written up between 1985 and 2005, but not formally published.
A-Z index - Covering the tutorial, freeware, and course materials.
E-mail - How to get in touch with me.
Last updated February 16, 2010.