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Human Or Automated, Indexing Is Important, Carol Tenopir
Human Or Automated, Indexing Is Important, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Controlled vocabulary indexing was developed well over a century ago to provide a consistent way for users to search for information, but human-assigned indexing has always been labor-intensive and costly. Because of the importance of indexing, two major information companies are trying automated approaches.
Recapturing The Past Online, Carol Tenopir
Recapturing The Past Online, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Libraries across the US are seeing an increased amount of automated information coming through to their schools. Some of these systems carry historical information which dates back only to the early seventies and maybe a few services offer articles written in the sixties. A move to update these files to include more valuable information to students as well as teachers are being devised by database producers.