Indexing: From Thesauri To The Semantic Web

Description:
Old techniques in indexing such as thesauri can form the foundation of the most recent techniques. Examples include, automatic indexing, ontologies and topic maps. Indexing describes the various traditional and new indexing techniques, providing information professionals and students of library and Information Sciences with a broad and comprehensible introduction to indexing.

Table of Contents:
Thesauri and key word systems; Auto-matic indexing and full text indexing; Indexing audio recordings, still and moving images; Web indexing; Metadata and indexing; Taxonomies and indexing; XML and indexing; Ontologies and indexing; Topic maps or the semantic web?

Author Biography:
Pierre de Keyser is head librarian of the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven, an institute for higher education in Louvain, Belgium. He published many articles on literary history, philosophy and library sciences. He teaches indexing in a Belgian Library and Information Sciences school.