LIS 419 - Resources

Web resources

Web resources for this course will be found primarily on my subject analysis pages. Pages in the LIS research section will be useful for the lit review, and digital libraries and metadata may also be fruitful for some related areas. Bookmarks for Web pages visited in class are here.

The class wiki is at http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/lis419sp08/.

Books & articles

There is no textbook that really covers the course perfectly, but two of the closest things are F.W. Lancaster's Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice, 3d ed. (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, 2003), and my own Sorting out the Web: Approaches to subject access (Westport, CT: Ablex, 2001). Both are on reserve (mine for several courses), and might be available from amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Lancaster has also been ordered through the Simmons bookstore.

I will assign some readings, and it is your responsibility to choose other material from the reading list below, as appropriate to the topic under discussion in class. PowerPoint presentations will be loaded into WebCT in advance of each lecture. There are many other books on subject analysis in the general collection. Only things marked as [On reserve] are.

Aitchison, J., Gilchrist, A. & Bawden, David. (1997). Thesaurus construction and use: A practical manual (3d ed.). London, England: Aslib. [On reserve]
Anderson, James D., & Pêrez-Carballo, Josê. (2001). The nature of indexing: How humans and machines analyze messages and texts for retrieval. Part I: Research, and the nature of human indexing. Information Processing & Management, 37, 231-254. Part II: Machine indexing, and the allocation of human versus machine effort. Information Processing & Management, 37, 255-277.
Baca, Murtha (Ed.). (2002). Introduction to art image access: Issues, tools, standards. strategies. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute. [On reserve]
Bates, Marcia. (2002). After the dot-bomb: getting Web information retrieval right this time. First Monday, 7(7). Available: http://firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_7/bates/index.html.
Bell, Hazel K. (2001). Indexers and indexing in fact and fiction. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
Booth, Pat. (2001). Indexing: The manual of good practice. München, Germany: K.G. Saur. [On reserve]
Broughton, Vanada. (2006). Essential thesaurus construction. London: Facet [on reserve].
Chan, L.M., Richmond, P., & Svenonius, E. (Eds.). (1985). Theory of subject analysis: A sourcebook. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Cleveland, Donald B. & Ana D. (2001). Introduction to indexing and abstracting, 3d ed. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. [On reserve]
Foskett, A.C. (1996). The subject approach to information. 5th ed. London, England: Library Association. [On reserve]
Hlava, Marjorie. (2002). Automatic indexing: A matter of degree. Bulletin of ASIS&T, 29(1). Available: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-02/hlava.html.
Hodge, Gail. (2000). Systems of knowledge for digital libraries. Washington, DC: CLIR. Available: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub91abst.html
Lancaster, F.W. (1972 and 1986). Vocabulary control for information retrieval (1st and 2d ed.). Washington, DC: IRP. [2d ed on reserve]
Meadow, C.T., Boyce, B.R., Kraft, D.H., & Barry, C. (2007). Text information retrieval systems (3rd ed.). New York: Academic Press. [Good recent overiew of IR] [On reserve].
Rafferty, Pauline & Hidderly, Rob. (2004). Indexing multimedia and creative works: The problems of meaning and interpretation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Roe, S.K., & Thomas, A.R. (Eds.). (2004). The thesaurus: Review, renaissance and revision. New York: Haworth. [Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 37(3/4), also a Simmons e-resource]
Smith, S.L., & Kells, K. (2005). Inside indexing: The decision-making process. Bend, OR: Northwest IndexingPpress. [Great insights into the actual processes involved in book indexing]. [On reserve]
Statistical association methods for mechanized documentation: Symposium proceedings. (1965). Washington, DC: GPO. [On reserve]
Taylor, Arlene G. (2004). The organization of information (2d ed.). Westport, CT; Libraries Unlimited. [On reserve]
Tudhope, D., Koch, T., & Heery, R. (2006). Terminology services and technology: JISC state of the art review. Retrieved July 4, 2007, from http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/terminology/TSreview-jisc-final-Sept.html. [This is a terriric summary of the varieties of terminologies out there.]
Van Rijsbergen, C.J. (1979) Information retrieval. 2d ed. London, England: Butterworths. [Also available: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html]
Wellisch, Hans H. (2000). Glossary of terminology in abstracting, indexing, classification, and thesaurus construction (2d ed.). Medford, NJ: Information Today, in association with the American Society of Indexers. [GSLIS Reference]
Williamson, N.J. & Beghtol, C. (Eds.). (2003). Knowledge organization and classification in international information retrieval. New York: Haworth. [Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 37(1/2), also a Simmons e-resource]
Zafran, Enid L. (2005). Index it right! Advice from the experts. New York: American Society of Indexers. [Sections on indexing philosophy, biography, theology, art, horticulture, encyclopeidas, comupter manuals, and Web sites]

Standards

Throughout the course you should examine the latest version of whatever standards pertain to the topic under discussion and to your project.

Anderson, James D. (1997). Guidelines for indexes and related information retrieval devices. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. (NISO technical report TR02-1997) Available: NISO [On reserve]
International Organization for Standardisation. (1985). Documentation -- Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects, and selecting index terms. ISO 5963-1985(E). (Also BS 6529:1984) [On reserve]
International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (1996). Information and documentation -- Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes. ISO 999:1996. Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization. (Also BS 9999: 1996)
National Information Standards organization. (2001). Dublin Core metadata element set. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. (NISO standard Z39.85-2001) (Also ISO 2788-1986(E)) Available: NISO]
National Information Standards Organization. (1997). Guidelines for abstracts. ANSI/NISO Z39.14-1997 (R2002). Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. (Currently under review). Available: NISO]
National Information Standards organization. (2003). Guidelines for the construction, format, and management of monolingual thesauri. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. (NISO standard Z39.19-2003) (Also ISO 2788-1986(E)) Available: NISO]

Journals

I keep a list of journals in this and related areas.

Unusual print thesauri & other tools

Web-accessible thesauri are listed at Subject analysis: Indexing languages.

Boggs, Beverly B., & Patterson, Daniel W. (1984). An index to selected folk recordings. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Burger, Henry G. (1984). The wordtree. Merriam, KS: The Wordtree, Inc.
Chenhall, Robert G. (1988). The revised nomenclature for museum indexing. Nashville, TN: AASLH Press.
Garnier, François. (1984). Thésaurus iconographique. Paris, France: Le Léopard d'Or.
Petersen, Toni & Barnett, Patricia J. (1994). Guide to indexing and cataloging with the Art and architecture thesaurus. New York: Oxford University Press.
Harrold, Ann, & Lea, Graham. (1991). Musaurus: A music thesaurus. London, England: Music Press.
Knapp, Sara D. (2000). The contemporary thesaurus of search terms and synonyms: A guide for natural language computer searching. Phoenix, AZ: Onyx.
Olderr, Steven. (1991). Olderr's fiction subject headings: A supplement and guide to the LC thesaurus. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. [On reserve]
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. (1995). Thesaurus of monument terms. London, England: The Commission.
Unesco (1995). Unesco thesaurus. Paris, France: Unesco.
Waal, Henri van de. (1985). Iconclass. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, 1985. [The scheme is in the index volumes, and there is a user manual: Straten, Roelof von. (1994). Iconography, indexing, Iconclass: A handbook. Leiden, the Netherlands: Foleor.] [On reserve]

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