Back of the book indexes and the characteristics of author and nonauthor indexing: report of an exploratory study Export

@article{RefWorks:206, abstract = {Examined the content of back of book indexes produced by 37 authors and 27 nonauthors, to see if differences between the 2 groups of indexers could be discerned by counting the occurrence of characteristics in their indexes. The nonauthors, many or all of whom were probably professional indexers, provided significantly more index pages, modified headings, and modifiers than did the author indexers. The 2 groups were almost identical in their frequency of cross reference use. Concludes that the simple counting technique is a feasible method and it should be applied to other populations of back of book indexes to determine how generalisable are the author/nonauthor differences seen here. 00 Original abstract}, author = {Diodato, Virgil and Gandt, Gretchen}, citeulike-article-id = {237602}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science}, keywords = {indexers, indexing}, month = {June}, number = {5}, pages = {341--350}, posted-at = {2005-06-25 19:47:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Back of the book indexes and the characteristics of author and nonauthor indexing: report of an exploratory study}, volume = {42}, year = {1991} }

TY - JOUR ID - RefWorks:206 L3 - citeulike-article-id:237602 N2 - Examined the content of back of book indexes produced by 37 authors and 27 nonauthors, to see if differences between the 2 groups of indexers could be discerned by counting the occurrence of characteristics in their indexes. The nonauthors, many or all of whom were probably professional indexers, provided significantly more index pages, modified headings, and modifiers than did the author indexers. The 2 groups were almost identical in their frequency of cross reference use. Concludes that the simple counting technique is a feasible method and it should be applied to other populations of back of book indexes to determine how generalisable are the author/nonauthor differences seen here. 00 Original abstract IS - 5 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science EP - 350 TI - Back of the book indexes and the characteristics of author and nonauthor indexing: report of an exploratory study VL - 42 SP - 341 KW - indexers KW - indexing AU - Diodato, Virgil AU - Gandt, Gretchen PY - 1991/June// ER -