Searching Styles

Search is a widely debated issue. Over the years, more interest and more science has been applied to the topic, making it even more dynamic. Search can be as simple or as complicated as you can imagine. An article is indexed with the terms appropriate to the content of that article. These terms are specific…

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Annual Conference of American Society for Indexing

Cleveland is hosting the American Society for Indexing (ASI) for their annual conference on April 26-28, 2018. With the theme, “Indexer’s Rock“, Cleveland, the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, seems the appropriate locale for the gathering of those dedicated to promoting excellence in indexing and increasing awareness of the value…

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Taxonomies in Finance

Standardization of data is accomplished through a custom taxonomy. Regardless of the topic or subject, taxonomies make findability of content easy and consistent. Markets Media brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Taxonomy, Data Crucial For Sustainable Finance.” An economic taxonomy is a system of classification of economic activity, including products, companies and industries.…

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Indexing History

In the information science world, “indexing”  denotes various methods for organizing data so that it is easily searchable.  To a student, however, the word might evoke images of 3×5 lined cards with every bit of potentially useful information crammed into the available space. The Atlantic brought this interesting topic to us in the article, “How…

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Indexing Folklore

Many of us have the “word of day” type emails that arrive in our in-box every morning. For readers and writers (and just plain ole’ word nerds), it is a way to broaden our vocabulary or to just give us a chuckle. With social media, this type of outreach has more avenues and applications for…

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