Catalogue & Index Issue 192: indexing

From the editorial – Catalogue and Index: Issue 192.

Welcome to issue 192 of Catalogue and Index which is devoted to the
topic of indexing. The term “indexing” can have different meanings, as
indexing takes place in many different ways and formats. So, we are
delighted that this issue gives a taste of the different ways indexing is
used in various parts of the information professions. We have
discussions about Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and
FAST, which may be the ways many of us encounter indexing in
everyday cataloguing life. However, the issue also contains articles
about keywords in abstracting and indexing databases, subject indexing
in repositories, and back-of-the-book indexing. We hear from those who
do indexing and lead developments in indexing, as well as from those
who research indexing. Above all, this issue shows the variety and
vibrancy of indexes, indexing and indexers.

Contents:

• FAST forward?
• Methodologies for classifying repositories
• Subject indexing in a repository
• History of index creation 
• Comedic indexes
• Foundation of the Society of Indexers
• Directions in indexing
• Change needed in the subject index 
• Online language classification
• Machine translation 
• Retrospective cataloguing case study 
• CILIP 2018 conference report
• Letters and responses
• Full Issue (192)

2018 ISKO UK Student Research Grant

The opportunity:

Are you a student?
Would you like a grant of up to £500 for your research project?

If you are in the planning or initial stages of your dissertation and need funding to help you with your research, ISKO UK has a fund of up to £500 for research related to Knowledge Organization.  This could include (but is not limited to) research on:

•       Cataloguing
•       Classification
•       Authority files
•       Thesauri
•       Metadata
•       Linked open data
•       Ontologies
•       Taxonomies,
•       Information architecture

For further details please visit:

http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-grants-students

Do apply as soon as possible. A decision on the applications is expected to be made by the end of July 2018. Best of luck to all of those who decide to apply.

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)

The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) is a membership organization that advances the theory and practice of knowledge organization (KO). As the UK chapter of ISKO, we run regular conferences, meetings and seminars, many of which are free to students.

You can find more information about ISKO and about ISKO UK, including past and future events, at www.isko.org and www.iskouk.org respectively.

 

Catalogue & Index: Call for papers (Issue 192) – Indexing

The theme for the September issue is indexing; this may be something that comes within the remit of your cataloguing role, or you may be a professional indexer.  The term covers several areas of expertise that we would be interested in hearing about.

• Subject indexing – controlled vocabularies, subject headings e.g. (LCSH, MeSH, FAST), discussing challenges of multilingual subject access, specificity, machine indexing, subject analysis, social tagging and folksonomy, purpose of indexing
• Book indexing – introduction to the profession, indexing practice, effect of automation and software, ebook indexing, future of the profession, technicalities, standards
• Database indexing – what it encompasses, linked to subject or book indexing

We are seeking articles on these or any other topics broadly related to indexing.

Please contact the editors with any proposed papers and we will reply with further information:

Karen Pierce: PierceKF@Cardiff.ac.uk

Deborah Lee: Deborah.Lee@courtauld.ac.uk)

Please also contact the editors if you have any queries, or if you want to offer a paper that does not fit into the theme mentioned.  We are always happy to consider papers on topics unrelated to an issue’s theme, especially if it is the result of some research you have conducted, or a project you have been involved in.

Papers can be up to 2,000 words, and we are happy to include a selection of images; papers for this issue will be due on 31^st August.

Please check our guidance for contributors: https://archive.cilip.org.uk/cataloguing-indexing-group/catalogue-index/guidance-contributors

CIG membership consultation survey

Cataloguing and classification are no longer being taught widely, but we recognise the need from library and information professionals for training in these areas.

• Do you think that the terms ‘cataloguing’ and ‘indexing’ are out of touch with today’s world?
• Has there been a paradigm shift and should we respond to it by changing our name and/or our events to reflect this?
• Is the Cataloguing and Indexing Group Committee organising the types of events you need where you need them?

To find answers to these questions, we invite all our existing and potential members to participate in a short survey. Your views will help us understand our members better and will guide us in deciding whether to change our name.

Your responses will also contribute to shaping the events we offer in the future. We will share the findings of the survey and present our proposals at our 2018 AGM.

Please complete the survey by 31 March 2018.

Resource Discovery – from catalogues to discovery services

Organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland, this all day seminar will present different perspectives on resource discovery for library, archival and other educational and cultural collections.

With the advent of next generation web scale discovery layers supplementing or replacing traditional and in-house catalogues, institutional resource discovery environments are changing beyond recognition.

But what does this mean for our collections, and for our users?

The seminar will seek the views of users, cataloguers, reference services and systems staff, and developers, and explore the impact that these new discovery layers are having on discovery and integration of collections across libraries, archives, universities and other cultural institutions.

This event will be of value to information profesionals with an interest in metadata, user services, resource discovery, discovery systems and integrated use of collections.

Speakers are still being confirmed, but the event will include presentations from the Universities of Durham and St Andrews, the National Library of Scotland and Jisc.

When: Wednesday 21 March, 2018  (10:00 – 16:00 GMT)

Where: National Library of Scotland

Book your place through Eventbrite

 

Catalogue & Index: Call for papers (Issue 190)

March 2018, Issue 190: Contemplating cataloguing, classification and indexing research

 

This issue will focus on the process of doing research in the cataloguing, classification and metadata fields. Sample topics might include, the process of submitting conference proposals, getting your work published, methodologies used for doing cataloguing-related research, useful journals for cataloguing indexing, experiences of doing research projects. So, do you have any thoughts, experiences, or advice to share?

• Could you write about giving your first-ever conference paper or writing your first article?
• How do you prepare your conference papers, and do you have any tips for the cataloguing community?
• What are your go-to-journal in this area and why?
• Which books do you find useful?
• How did you write that all-important cataloguing survey (or, do you have experience writing good surveys and want to share this with the cataloguing community)?
• What do you think about practitioners doing research and/or how did you persuade your manager it was a good thing to do?
• Have you done a cataloguing or classification related LIS dissertation recently and want to share how you went about doing your research?
• What do you think are the important research questions in cataloguing and classification right now (i.e. what would it be useful for us to know as a profession?).
• What are the ethical considerations of doing cataloguing-related research?

 

Please contact the editors (Karen Pierce: PierceKF@Cardiff.ac.uk and Deborah Lee: Deborah.Lee@courtauld.ac.uk if you would like to write a paper for this issue, and we will send you more information. Please also contact the editors if you have any queries or if you want to offer a paper that does not fit into the theme mentioned. We are always happy to consider papers on topics unrelated to an issue’s theme, especially if it is the result of some research you have conducted, or a project you have been involved in. Papers can be up to 2,000 words, and we are happy to include a selection of images. Please check our guidance for contributors: https://archive.cilip.org.uk/cataloguing-indexing-group/catalogue-index/guidance-contributors. Papers will be due on 28th February.