========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 10:29:14 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Tom Keays Subject: Prepositions, sorting of ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Barbara E. Cohen wrote: > Here is a new twist on the issue of ignoring prepositions when sorting > entries. I recently read of a rule that indexers should ignore the > preposition or prepositional phrase within the name of an organization: > > e.g., Association of American Publishers > > Association for Asian Studies Janice Woo responded: > I've seen this phenomena in some directories. Could it have to do with > machine sorting with stop-word list that then turned into a procedural rule? I doubt it has anything to do with stop words. I imagine it would not be a trivial sort routine from a programmer's point of view. I agree with the general discussion that such practices are inappropriate for book indexes. But I have seen several listings of library journal and serial holdings that ignor both embedded prepositions and articles in sorting: e.g., Journal of the American Chemical Society Journal for American Chemical Studies (made up title) Students, who don't necessarily have complete citations - only abbreviations - find this approach to sorting entries more useful than if the titles were sorted to the letter. Tom Keays htkeays@mailbox.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 10:29:36 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: KINGH@SNYSYRV1.BITNET Subject: RE: Indexing Software ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I mailed both print copy and disk of the indexes I've prepared to both authors and publishers. One publisher did not have the technology to use my disk and had to re-key the entire index! Another uploaded index on my disc in ASCII format and spent lots of time fixing it. CINDEX allows the user to save in a variety of word processing languages so it covers those kind of incompatibilities. Hannah King SUNY HSC Library at Syracuse kingh@snysyrv1 kingh@vax.cs.hscsyr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 14:04:16 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: TAYLORVAISEY@medac.med.utoronto.ca Subject: Indexing software information meeting ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada is holding an informal meeting on the evening of Thursday, Dec. 3 at the Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto. The topic is "Indexing software" and we are desperately seeking software vendors and/or users to speak about theior indexing packages. We are unable to pay travel costs but would welcome input from people who might be in the Toronto z area at this time. For more information send an e-mail message to Anne Taylor-Vaisey, or telephone Angela Osterreicher at 416 - 927-4972. =========================================================================