========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 09:53:58 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: ORLANDO@ac.dal.ca Subject: Thanks ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 15:30:58 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Catherine Grissom 615-576-1175 Subject: Re: Thesaurus Management Software ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:14:21 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Jessica Milstead <76440.2356@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Audrey Grosch ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Any friends of Audrey Grosch on index-l please contact me via e-mail. Jessica Milstead 76440.2356@compuserve.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:29:54 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster 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. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:35:35 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Norm Howden Subject: Content Analysis ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norman Howden | | | | School of Library and Information Sciences | | University of North Texas | | howden@lis.unt.edu (817) 565-2760 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:37:53 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Norm Howden Subject: Content analysis ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- content.zip: decoded size: 54360 encoded size: 77408 (approximate) content.zip section 1/1 UUXFER ver 2.0 by David M. 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Jeff ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:53:29 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster 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 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:18:54 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: David Lewis Subject: Taxonomies / thesauri of computer science terms ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:23:37 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Evelyn Mitchell Subject: Sending Programs with Index-l ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:24:12 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Julius Ariail Subject: Index-L archives in gopher format ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Julius Ariail, Director of Libraries Georgia Southern University solibja@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu Box 8074 (912) 681-5115 (voice) -5034 (fax) Statesboro, GA 30460 USA "Save the time of the reader." -- Ranganathan ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:25:09 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "[CKatie Izat" <100265.2771@CompuServe.COM> Subject: COST-BENFEFIT ANALYSES ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -