The future of the human indexer  

Oleh:

Ward, Martin L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science vol. 28 no. 4 (2008), page 217-226.
Fulltext: 217.pdf (996.33KB)

Isi artikel

Considers the principles of indexing and the intellectual skills involved in order to determine what automatic indexing systems would require in order to supplant or complement the human indexer. Argues that good indexing, especially in technical fields, requires: considerable prior knowledge of the literature; judgement as to what to index and to what depth; reading skills; abstracting, cataloguing and classification skills. Illustrates these features with a detailed description of the abstracting and indexing processes involved in generating entries for the mechanical engineering database, POWERLINK. Briefly assesses the possibility of replacing human indexers with specialist indexing software with particular reference to the Object Analyzer from the InTEXT automatic indexing system and applying the criteria described for human indexers. Concludes that, at present, it is unlikely that automatic indexers will replace human indexers, but when more primary texts are available in electronic form, they may be a useful productivity tool for dealing with large quantities of low grade texts (should such material be wanted in the textbase).

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