Affiliations: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program, Washington, DC, USA
Correspondence:
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Correspondence to: R.L. Buchan, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program, Washington, DC 20546, USA.
Note: [*] This paper is based in part on two presentations given in Washington, DC, one on 24 September 1991, to the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services, and one on 31 October 1991 to the American Society for Information Sciences.
Abstract: Indexing with computers is a far cry from indexing with the first indexing tool, the manual card sorter. With the aid of computer-aided lexicography, both indexing and indexing tools can provide standardization, consistency, and accuracy, resulting in greater quality control than every before. A brief survey of computer activity in indexing is presented with detailed illustrations from NASA activity. Applications from techniques mentioned, such as Retrospective Indexing (RI), can be made to many indexing systems. In addition to improving the quality of indexing with computers, the improved efficiency with which certain tasks can be done is demonstrated.
