A tale of indexing (in)consistency

Zhang, Lei

doi:10.3828/indexer.2020.16

The Indexer

2020

DOI: 10.3828/indexer.2020.16

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A tale of indexing (in)consistency

Lei Zhang

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Some core concepts of domain analysis

Hjørland

2024

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This article claims that information systems should provide reliable and trustworthy information, and that this demand imply a re-orientation of information science with knowledge organization from, for example, approaches based on studies of user’s preferences, towards studies of quality and the values and goals in the documents being mediated. This mediation is done by information professionals in their knowledge organization systems and -processes. For this purposes, the philosophy of science becomes an important subject, which has implications for the understanding of a long range of concepts. Here, the following concepts are briefly introduced: “social epistemology”, “information”, “question,” “relevance,” “information need,” “concept,” and “subject” (of documents).

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Some core concepts of domain analysis

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2024

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Indexing The Indexer , Part 2. Identifying good practice in journal indexing

Kingdom¹

2022

The Indexer

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The previous article in this series outlined the chequered history of indexing The Indexer, emphasising the apparent lack of concern for standardisation and consistency and the failure to establish a thesaurus or controlled vocabulary. Here we focus on the guidance on journal indexing available in the various indexing standards and manuals, and also in the pages of The Indexer itself, and consider the extent to which an agreed set of recommendations can be identified. A brief look at several different journal indexes suggests that users in different disciplines may have different needs, and that one size does not fit all, but who are the users of The Indexer’s indexes and have their views been taken into account?

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A tale of indexing (in)consistency

Cited by 2 publications

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Some core concepts of domain analysis

Some core concepts of domain analysis

Indexing The Indexer , Part 2. Identifying good practice in journal indexing

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