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):
authority
filessee 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:
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