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About the
indexes
Why we created the indexes
We created the Indexes and thesaurus page to help
Web site visitors find information and to reduce the cost of maintaining
the site.
Even on a relatively modest Web site, standard keyword
searching can return too many matches to be meaningful. Furthermore, visitors
need cross references and definitions to understand specialized terms,
such as "upstream knowledge management" or "authority files."
Finally, maintaining indexes and tables of contents for a monthly publication
is too time consuming and error-prone without a standard list of terms
in database format.
To overcome these problems, we designed six different
indexes, all driven by the same database application. They are described
below.
- A - Z Index — similar to a back-of-the-book
index, except that the terms point to Web pages, not printed pages.
From the A - Z Index page, you can access these additional
indexes:
- Chronological Index — a list of Montague
Institute Review articles grouped by year and sorted by date
- Subject Index — a hierarchical list
of topics and subtopics, similar to a book's table of contents
- Organizations — a list of organizations
mentioned in our articles
- People — a list of people mentioned
in our articles
- Products — a list of products and
services mentioned in our articles
Viewing the indexes
To view the indexes, go to the Indexes
and thesaurus page. Your Web browser must be able to display frames.
Viewing referenced documents
Index terms point to documents that mention the
term (see the example below):
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authority
files see also [cataloging] [indexing] [thesauri]
Lists of terms used to control the variant names
for such entities as countries, people, and organizations. Non-preferred
terms may be linked to preferred terms, but unlike a thesaurus,
there is little, if any, hierarchy. Example: Getty Geographic Authority
File.
Documents for this term:
Tip of the iceberg abstract |
Many document links go to abstracts. To read the full text, you must be
a member of the Society of Knowledge Base Publishers.
There's also a list of free articles.
Created on December 27, 2000 l Updated on
May 4, 2009
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