LIS 677 - Web sources

• On-line texts
  • Brief table of contents: Information Retrieval Design, a book by James D. Anderson and Jose Perez-Carballo (complete text of the 2004 printed book; includes a lot of material on indexing)
• Associations
  • Indexing Society of Canada (includes PDF versions of the Society's Bulletin since 1999)
  • American Society of Indexers (includes pointers to indexing resources and to some indexes on the Web)
  • ANZSI - Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (includes information on Web Indexing Prize winners 1996-2000 and Web Index Award winners 2001- )
  • Home :: The Society of Indexers (includes frequently asked questions about indexing and information about indexing awards)
  • Web Indexing SIG (Affiliated with the American Society of Indexers, but open to members of sister societies. Site includes links to resources and some examples of Web indexes.)
• Discussion groups
  • INDEX-L Archives (worldwide indexers' online discussion group)
    • -1999
    • 1999-2000
    • 2000-
  • Yahoo! Groups: cindexusers (an example of a special group for users of a specific package; there is also a Yahoo! group for SKY Index, SKYIndexUsers, but it is for members only)
• Links to resources and articles
  • Back Words Indexing's Resources for Prospective Indexers (oriented to the business of indexing, with many links to other sites)
  • Mary Sue Stephenson's Indexing Resources on the WWW (links to many other sites)
  • Practical ideas for indexing books, technical documentation and websites. (short articles on indexing topics)
  • Seth Maislin: Indexing (short articles on indexing topics and an FAQ)
  • Heather Hedden's Hedden Information Management site (gives links to some resources on Web site design and indexing and book and periodical indexing; offers online courses on Web site indexing)
• NISO guidelines (downloadable in PDF format)
  • Guidelines for Abstracts
  • Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices
  • Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
  • Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols
• Software
  • See LIS 677 - Software.
• Lists of thesauri
  • QUT | FIT | Controlled Vocabularies (links to examples of thesauri and classification schemes, compiled by Michael Middleton, Queensland University of Technology)
  • Controlled Vocabularies - Government - Library and Archives Canada (links to Canadian and other sources maintained by Library and Archives Canada)
  • Taxonomy Warehouse - information organization, metadata, knowledge management, classification tools (many online, but you have to copy and paste the URLs)
  • HILT Sources: Thesauri A-Z (another set of links to Web-based thesauri)
• Some specific online thesauri
  • ERIC - Education Resource Information Center (includes information about ERIC and links to search engines, in addition to an interface to the thesaurus)
  • Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Research at the Getty) (includes individual term search and hierarchical displays; an example of a well-developed faceted thesaurus)
  • Welcome to APT - the Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (terms for "objects, people, places and structures, activities and concepts depicted in an image")
  • Agrovoc (a nice example of a multilingual thesaurus display)
  • National Agricultural Library Services: National Agricultural Library Agricultural Thesaurus (with a link to a form for suggesting changes)
  • See also LIS 677 - Web thesaurus displays.
• Other useful sites
  • Charles Anderson's Cost Estimator (type in the number of pages in a book, the number of indexable concepts per page, and the level of difficulty and get a price)
  • New ERIC News (what's happening to ERIC, plus some reactions)
  • ERIC [1] (Dialog bluesheet for the ERIC database)
  • Graduate School, USDA - Search - EDIT (correspondence courses in editing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including two courses on indexing)
  • A Hypertextual Interface for a Searcher's Thesaurus (Paper by E.H. Johnson and P.A. Cochrane illustrating a combination graphic and hierarchical online display.)
  • SearchEngineWatch: How To Use HTML Meta Tags (a brief explanation of META tags, including NAME="description" and NAME="keywords")
  • Download Pertinence | Automatic Summarizer. (Commercial automatic summarizer. Free demonstration available in exchange for e-mail address.)
  • TermExtractor @ Linguistic Computing Laboratory (LCL) (Web-based demonstration of Francesco Sclano's TermExtractor.)

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