Indexing : from thesauri to the Semantic Web

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Information & Library Science Library

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Z695.9 .K49 2012
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Available

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Summary

This book describes various traditional and new indexing techniques. It shows that 'old' techniques can be at the fundament of new one like automatic indexing, ontologies or topic maps.

Contents

  • List of figures p. xi
  • List of abbreviations p. xiii
  • Preface p. xvii
  • About the author p. xxi
  • 1 Introduction to subject headings and thesauri p. 1
  • Introduction p. 1
  • Standards for controlled vocabularies p. 4
  • Precoordination and postcoordination p. 8
  • General do's and don'ts in selecting index terms p. 10
  • Subject headings p. 15
  • Thesauri p. 18
  • Creating and maintaining a controlled vocabulary p. 25
  • How to find subject headings and thesauri p. 26
  • Thesaurus software p. 26
  • Multilingual thesauri p. 29
  • Interoperability between vocabularies p. 30
  • What makes a good indexing system? p. 32
  • Notes p. 35
  • References p. 35
  • 2 Automatic indexing versus manual indexing p. 39
  • Introduction p. 39
  • Arguments against manual indexing p. 40
  • Is indexing by the author or editor a valuable alternative? p. 48
  • Arguments in favour of manual indexing p. 51
  • Some misconceptions about automatic indexing p. 57
  • Conclusion p. 59
  • Notes p. 60
  • References p. 60
  • 3 Techniques applied in automatic indexing of text material p. 65
  • Introduction p. 65
  • Lexical analysis p. 66
  • The use of stop word lists p. 67
  • Stemming p. 68
  • Extracting meaningful word combinations p. 70
  • Index term weighting p. 72
  • Linking words and word combinations to a controlled vocabulary p. 73
  • Automatic classification p. 75
  • What can be expected of automatic text indexing? p. 75
  • References p. 77
  • 4 Automatic indexing of images p. 79
  • Introduction p. 79
  • Images on the internet p. 80
  • Context-based indexing p. 84
  • Content-based indexing p. 89
  • Automatic image annotation p. 96
  • Mixed techniques p. 97
  • The purpose of it all p. 98
  • Notes p. 99
  • References p. 99
  • 5 The black art of indexing moving images p. 101
  • Manual indexing of moving images p. 101
  • Why index moving images automatically? p. 103
  • Indexing based on speech or text recognition p. 104
  • Keyframe indexing p. 108
  • The future of video indexing p. 110
  • Notes p. 112
  • References p. 112
  • 6 Automatic indexing of music p. 113
  • Introduction p. 113
  • Some examples of music retrieval p. 115
  • Indexing methods behind the retrieval p. 118
  • References p. 120
  • 7 Taxonomies and ontologies p. 121
  • The librarian's strained relation to taxonomies and ontologies p. 121
  • What are taxonomies and what are they used for? p. 125
  • Ontologies p. 131
  • The importance of taxonomies and ontologies p. 138
  • Notes p. 141
  • References p. 141
  • 8 Metadata formats and indexing p. 143
  • Introduction p. 143
  • What are metadata? p. 144
  • Metadata and the library world p. 145
  • Some important metadata standards p. 146
  • Bridges between standards p. 160
  • The benefits of metadata standards p. 162
  • What about indexing? p. 164
  • Notes p. 165
  • References p. 166
  • 9 Tagging p. 167
  • What is tagging? p. 167
  • Why tagging? p. 168
  • Advantages and disadvantages of tagging p. 171
  • Towards a taxonomy of tagging p. 172
  • Tagging in the book and library world p. 175
  • User tags and author keywords p. 179
  • How tags are displayed p. 180
  • Conclusions p. 181
  • Notes p. 182
  • References p. 182
  • 10 Topic Maps p. 185
  • Introduction p. 185
  • The TAO model of Topic Maps p. 187
  • The technical side of Topic Maps p. 188
  • Examples of Topic Maps p. 190
  • Are Topic Maps the future of indexing? p. 191
  • Notes p. 192
  • References p. 192
  • 11 Indexing the web p. 195
  • Is it possible to index the web? p. 195
  • Manual web indexes p. 197
  • Bookmark sites p. 203
  • Evaluation of manual web indexing p. 205
  • Web indexing by search engines p. 206
  • How search engines work p. 207
  • Google's PageRank p. 211
  • What about indexing the 'deep web'? p. 215
  • Notes p. 218
  • References p. 218
  • 12 The Semantic Web p. 221
  • Introduction p. 221
  • The criticism against the actual web p. 223
  • Planning Web 3.0 p. 225
  • A timetable for the Semantic Web p. 234
  • The Semantic Web and traditional library instruments p. 237
  • Notes p. 242
  • References p. 243
  • Index p. 245

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