Indexing

<p>List of figures</p> <p>List of abbreviations</p> <p>Preface</p> <p>About the author</p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction to subject headings and thesauri</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Standards for controlled vocabularies</p> <p>Precoordination and postcoordination</p> <p>General do’s and don’ts in selecting index terms</p> <p>Subject headings</p> <p>Thesauri</p> <p>Creating and maintaining a controlled vocabulary</p> <p>How to find subject headings and thesauri</p> <p>Thesaurus software</p> <p>Multilingual thesauri</p> <p>Interoperability between vocabularies</p> <p>What makes a good indexing system?</p> <p>Chapter 2: Automatic indexing versus manual indexing</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Arguments against manual indexing</p> <p>Is indexing by the author or editor a valuable alternative?</p> <p>Arguments in favour of manual indexing</p> <p>Some misconceptions about automatic indexing</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chapter 3: Techniques applied in automatic indexing of text material</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Lexical analysis</p> <p>The use of stop word lists</p> <p>Stemming</p> <p>Extracting meaningful word combinations</p> <p>Index term weighting</p> <p>Linking words and word combinations to a controlled vocabulary</p> <p>Automatic classification</p> <p>What can be expected of automatic text indexing?</p> <p>Chapter 4: Automatic indexing of images</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Images on the Internet</p> <p>Context-based indexing</p> <p>Content-based indexing</p> <p>Automatic image annotation</p> <p>Mixed techniques</p> <p>The purpose of it all</p> <p>Chapter 5: The black art of indexing moving images</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Manual indexing of moving images</p> <p>Why index moving images automatically?</p> <p>Indexing based on speech or text recognition</p> <p>Keyframe indexing</p> <p>The future of video indexing</p> <p>Chapter 6: Automatic indexing of music</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Some examples of music retrieval</p> <p>Indexing methods behind the retrieval</p> <p>Chapter 7: Taxonomies and ontologies</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>The librarian’s strained relation to taxonomies and ontologies</p> <p>What are taxonomies and what are they used for?</p> <p>Ontologies</p> <p>The importance of taxonomies and ontologies</p> <p>Chapter 8: Metadata formats and indexing</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>What are metadata?</p> <p>Metadata and the library world</p> <p>Some important metadata standards</p> <p>Bridges between standards</p> <p>The benefits of metadata standards</p> <p>What about indexing?</p> <p>Chapter 9: Tagging</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>What is tagging?</p> <p>Why tagging?</p> <p>Advantages and disadvantages of tagging</p> <p>Towards a taxonomy of tagging</p> <p>Tagging in the book and library world</p> <p>User tags and author keywords</p> <p>How tags are displayed</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 10: Topic Maps</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The TAO model of Topic Maps</p> <p>The technical side of Topic Maps</p> <p>Examples of Topic Maps</p> <p>Are Topic Maps the future of indexing?</p> <p>Chapter 11: Indexing the web</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Is it possible to index the web?</p> <p>Manual web indexes</p> <p>Bookmark sites</p> <p>Evaluation of manual web indexing</p> <p>Web indexing by search engines</p> <p>How search engines work</p> <p>Google’s PageRank</p> <p>What about indexing the ‘deep web’?</p> <p>Chapter 12: The Semantic Web</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The criticism against the actual web</p> <p>Planning Web 3.0</p> <p>A timetable for the Semantic Web</p> <p>The Semantic Web and traditional library instruments</p> <p>Index</p>