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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 09:53:58 ECT
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From: ORLANDO@ac.dal.ca
Subject: Thanks
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Re CINDEX: thank you Paula, Christine and Anne for advice and addresses.
Yes, Anne, I recently joined IASC, and have found it very useful. As for
The Indexer, I find the contributions to be learned, articulate and
very funny. Unfortunately, i have to take a break during July and August
while we buy a house and settle in Ontario, but I hope to be back at it
(indexing) soon. Thanks again, everyone.
Ann Smith, Halifax, N.S.
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 15:30:58 ECT
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From: Catherine Grissom 615-576-1175 <GRISSOM@a1.osti.gov>
Subject: Re: Thesaurus Management Software
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The thesaurus software system, created by the U.S. Department of Energy's
Office of Scientific and Technical Information to maintain the large Energy
Technology Data Exchange International Energy Thesaurus. This thesaurus
contains about 27,000 entries. The software provides for creation of thesauri
with automatic reciprocal generation (or deletion). It supports the following
relationship types: broader term, narrower term, related term, used for, seen
from, use and see. It notifies the creator of possible logical errors,
maintains the date entered, date of last change, allows for scope notes and
definitions and allows status codes. The software is written in FORTRAN for DEC
VAX running the VMS operating system. The software is available from the Energy
Science and Technology Software Center (615-576-2606 or e-mail
estsc@adonis,osti.gov).
If I can provide additional information I will or ask the software creator. I
only use it and I think it works beautifully.
Catherine Grissom (615-576-1175 or grissom@a1.osti.gov)
US Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
PO Box 62
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:14:21 ECT
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From: Jessica Milstead <76440.2356@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Audrey Grosch
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Any friends of Audrey Grosch on index-l please contact me via e-mail.
Jessica Milstead
76440.2356@compuserve.com
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:29:54 ECT
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From: Charlotte Skuster <SKUSTER@BINGVMB.BITNET>
Subject: FAQ--new information
New this time: Index-l procedures and additional references for getting
connected. Charlotte
INDEX-L FAQ
INDEX-L PROCEDURES
There are three addresses you need to use for interaction with
index-l:
To take part in a discussion or send a message to the list
(a.k.a. group or subscribers), address your e-mail to Index-
l@bingvmb.bitnet or index-l@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
To send a message directly to the moderator (a.k.a. Charlotte),
address your e-mail to Skuster@bingvmb.bitnet or
Skuster@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
To send a command to the listserv, address your e-mail to
listserv@bingvmb.bitnet or listserv@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu.
As subscribers, you are able to send commands to the listserv to
see the archives, see a list of subscribers, stop your mail for a
while, or a number of other options. To get a list of listserv
commands and what they do, send the following message to the
listserv:
INFO REFCARD
Do not sign your name or put anything else in the message.
BOOKS ON INDEXING?
Knight, G. N. Indexing, The Art Of. Allen & Unwin, 1979.
Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice.
U of Illinois Press, 1991.
Lancaster, F. W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval,
2nd ed. Information resources Press, 1986
Mulvany, Nancy C. Indexing Books, University of Chicago Press,
1994.
Wellisch, H. Indexing and Abstracting, an International
Bibliography ABC-Clio, 1980.
Wellisch, H. Indexing from A to Z. H. W. Wilson, 1991.
WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT AUTOMATIC INDEXING?
Books:
Salton and McGill Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Salton, Automatic Text Processing
Van Rijsbergen Information Retrieval
Jones, Karen Spark Information Retrieval Experiment
Papers:
Bell, C. and Jones, K. "Back-of-the-book Indexing: A Case for the
Application of Artificial Intelligence", Informatics 5, ASLIB
Pub., pp. 155-161, 1979
Bennion, B. "Performance Testing of a Book and its Index as an
Information Retrieval System", JASIS, pp. 265-270, July 1970
Borko, H. "Experiments in Book Indexing by Computer" Information
Storage and Retrieval, 6:5)16, 1970
Dillon, M. and McDonald, J. "Fully Automatic Book Indexing"
Journal of Documentation 39(1):135-154, 1983
Dion, M. Thesaurus-Based Automatic Book Indexing", Information
Processing and Management, 81(4):167-178, 1982
Salton, G. "Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing",
Proceedings of the 26th ACL, pp. 204-210, 1988
WHAT SOFTWARE DO INDEXERS USE?
(All of these are for DOS machines...no Macs)
IN>SORT
Kensa Software
P.O. Box 4415
Northbrook, IL 60065
(708) 559-0297
Macrex
Bayside Indexing Service
P.O. Box 3051
Daly City, CA 95015-0051
(415) 756-0821
FAX: (415) 757-1567
Cindex
Indexing Research
Box 18609
Rochester, New
(716) 461-5530
FAX: (716) 442-3924
COURSES OR TRAINING FOR INDEXERS (OUTSIDE OF LIBRARY SCHOOLS)?
Graduate School of the USDA
Correspondence Programs
Room 1114, South Agriculture Building
14th St. and Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 720-7131
Tuition: $269.00 (includes all materials)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS FOR INDEXERS?
(this question was not actually asked..but here's the answer
anyway)
American Society of Indexers (ASI)
P.O. Box 386
Port Aransas TX 78373
(512) 749-4052
FAX: (512) 749-6334
E-Mail: asi@well.sf.ca.us
Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada
Box 744 Station F
Toronto Ontario
Canada M4Y 2N6
National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services
(NFAIS)
1429 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19102
(215) 563)2406
FAX: (215) 563-2848
Society of Indexers (SI)
16 Green Road Birchington, England
CT79JZ
Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI)
GPO Box 1251L, Melbourne
Victoria 3001, Australia
NETWORK CONNECTIONS
America Online (800) 227-6364
CompuServe (800) 848-8199
Delphi (800) 495-4005
GEnie (800) 638-9636
The Well (415) 332-4335
Real/Time Communications (512) 459-4391
See also.
Maren, M. "The Age of E-Mail. Home Office Computing,
December, 1993, 63-70.
Tetzeli, R. "Is going on-line worth the money?" FORTUNE
129(12):104-105, 108. June 13, 1994.
Kantor, A. "Making on-line services work for you" PC
Magazine 13(5):110 March 14, 1994.
Estrada, S. Connecting to the Internet : a buyer's guide
Sepastopol CA:O'Reilly & Assoc. 1993.
WINNERS OF THE ASI/H.W. WILSON COMPANY AWARD FOR
INDEXING
1979--Hans H. Wellisch, author and indexer; John Wiley,
publisher:
The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and
Utilization.
1980--Linda I. Solow, indexer; M.I.T. Press, publisher: Beyond
Orpheus:
Studies in Musical Structures.
1981--Delight Ansley, indexer; Random House Publisher: Cosmos,
Carl Sagan,
author.
1982--Catherine Fix, indexer; Wm. Saunders Company, publisher:
Diagnosis
of Bone and Joint Disorders.
1983--Award not given.
1984--Trish Yancey, indexer; Information Handling Services,
publisher:
Index and Directory of U.S. Industry Standards.
1985--Sydney W. Cohen, indexer; Random House, publisher: The
Experts Speak,
Cerf and Navasky, authors.
1986--Marjorie Hyslop, indexer; American Society for Metals,
publisher:
Metals Handbook.
1987--Award not given.
1988--Jeanne Moody, indexer; National Wildlife Institute,
publisher: Raptor
Management Techniques.
1989--Philip James, indexer; Butterworths, publisher: Medicine
for the
Practicing Physician, 2nd ed..
1990--Marcia Carlson, indexer; Cornell University Press,
publisher:
Strategic Nuclear Arms & Arms Control Debates.
1991--Daniels, Nancy L., indexer; Van Nostrand Reinhold,
publisher:
Beyond Public Architecture: Strategies for Design
Evaluation.
1992--Johnson, Rachel Jo., indexer; Matthew Bender, publisher:
American Law
of Real Property.
1993--Award not given.
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:35:35 ECT
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From: Norm Howden <howden@unt.edu>
Subject: Content Analysis
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The next message will contain a file of utility software that you may
occasionally find useful. Folks who do content analysis (qualitative
research) often do word frequency lists. Folks who do bibliometrics often do
term frequency lists. The files in this kit walk you through doing both, but
you can also do a transition point analysis of the term frequency list to
come up with candidate terms for indexing.
There are no guarantees. The term frequency list might be valuable for
any text. Using the transition point will work with fairly focused documents
like journal articles, but not for literary texts.
Let me know how it goes,
Norm Howden
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| Norman Howden |
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| University of North Texas |
| howden@lis.unt.edu (817) 565-2760 |
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:37:53 ECT
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From: Norm Howden <howden@unt.edu>
Subject: Content analysis
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content.zip: decoded size: 54360
encoded size: 77408 (approximate)
content.zip section 1/1 UUXFER ver 2.0 by David M. Read
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:38:53 ECT
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From: Norm Howden <howden@unt.edu>
Subject: Content analysis
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 13:56:08 ECT
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From: FINLAY_J@spcvxa.spc.edu
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Subject: Re: Content analysis
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Norm, you can't send binary files by e-mail. Maybe you could upload
them to some ftp site where we could get them?
Jeff
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:53:29 ECT
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From: Charlotte Skuster <SKUSTER@BINGVMB.BITNET>
Subject: Western New York Chapter of ASI
WESTERN NEW YORK CHAPTER
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INDEXERS
SUMMER MEETING
JUNE 25, 1994
BINGHAMTOM UNIVERSITY
SCIENCE LIBRARY
10:00-12:00 am
The agenda will include reports from the annual meeting
in San Diego, a behind-the-scenes look at Index-l, and a
cruise of the internet.
Following the meeting we will adjourn for lunch at a local
restaurant.
Directions:
From Route 17, take exit 70S to Route 201 South. Follow 201
South across the Susqehanna River Bridge to Vestal. Stay to
the left after the bridge and exit to Route 434 East. You
will see signs directing you to the Campus. Upon entering
the campus, you will pass an information booth on the right.
After the booth, stay to the right and follow the West drive
to the second parking lot on the left--parking lot J. There
should be ample places for parking.
Due to construction at the entrance to the Science Library,
and the fact that the library will not be open to the public
at that hour, it will be necessary to assemble in the
parking lot to be led into the library. For that reason it
is important to know who will be coming so that we can wait
until all have arrived.
If you plan to attend the meeting, contact:
Charlotte Skuster
email: skuster@bingvmb
home phone: (607) 336-3110
work phone: (607) 777-4122
or
Kathryn Torgeson
email: 73671.176@compuserve.com
phone: (607) 257-5090
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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:18:54 ECT
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From: David Lewis <lewis@research.att.com>
Subject: Taxonomies / thesauri of computer science terms
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Hi -- A colleague of mine is looking for online taxonomies / thesauri
of terms for computer science. Anyone know of any?
Thanks, Dave
David D. Lewis
AT&T Bell Laboratories email: lewis@research.att.com
600 Mountain Ave.; Room 2C-408 ph. 908-582-3976
Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636; USA dept. fax. 908-582-7550
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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:23:37 ECT
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From: Evelyn Mitchell <efm@accum.com>
Subject: Sending Programs with Index-l
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Dear Indexers,
Norm:
You included a uuencoded version of a zipped program without
telling us:
a) what computer it runs on
b) how to convert it so it would run
c) where to get another copy
d) who wrote it and how we can get questions answered about it.
I would have preferred if you would have posted this information
to the list first, and only if demand was proven published it
to the list.
Whoever remarked on mailing binaries:
It is possible to encode binary files in such a way that they
can be represented in printable ascii characters. In order to
run them, you have to run the file through a conversion program
like uudecode or Binhex, to convert the ascii characters back to
an executable binary.
To members of the list:
In the future, I hope that those who would post copies of software
would give us the opportunity to request it, or ftp it, before they
give it to us.
Evelyn Mitchell
efm@accum.com
speaking for myself
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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:24:12 ECT
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From: Julius Ariail <solibja@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu>
Subject: Index-L archives in gopher format
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The Index-L listserv archives from October 1993-date are now available in a
gopher format at Georgia Southern University. If you have access to a gopher
client, point it at this address: informer.cc.gasou.edu. If you don't have a
gopher client, then use a telnet command to connect to our campus
information system (gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu, username: info) and you can pick up
the gopher on the main info menu.
The Index-L files are in the "Henderson Library" area of the gopher. So far,
I have the archived listserv records month by month back until October 1993.
Charlotte and I are working to retrieve the older records from tape storage
and move them to the new gopher site. I also have some basic information up
about ASI and Key Words, although I am very aware that the listserv and the
GSU site are not officially sanctioned ASI activities.
The Index-L area will be growing over the next few weeks. I intend to add
basic information about other indexing organizations and publications, a
running list of conferences and meetings for indexers (extracted from
Index-L postings), and whatever else seems worthwhile. I also intend to set
up a WAIS-type index system for the listserv archives. To facilitate
retrieval through this type of program, the future listserv archives will be
kept in weekly segments rather than monthly segments (according to Charlotte
and her computer center), and I'll work (probably over the summer) to break
up the existing monthly groups into smaller weekly groups.
I would welcome comments, suggestions, etc. on this project. The gopher
system is very flexible, and I can move stuff around and add other stuff at
will.
Julius
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solibja@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu Box 8074
(912) 681-5115 (voice) -5034 (fax) Statesboro, GA 30460 USA
"Save the time of the reader." -- Ranganathan
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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:25:09 ECT
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From: "[CKatie Izat" <100265.2771@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: COST-BENFEFIT ANALYSES
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Is anyone aware of any work which has been done on the
'cost-benefits' of indexes? I am often asked for 'further'
information on my indexing skills, particularly from technical
author companies. In response I would like to highlight specific
time-saving benefits and therefore cost benefits to the users of
documents with indexes, as opposed to those without.
It would be useful to quote specific figures in such instances
but this obviously requires some research.
Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Katie Izat
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