Category: indexing

Is a manual index worth doing?

On September 18, 2021

In indexing, information science, scholarly publishing

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Note: I found Duncan’s book so fascinating that I subsequently wrote a much longer post about the book and the issues it raises.

That question is not exactly what Dennis Duncan has answered in his new book (Index, a history …

Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction (Margaret Boden, 2016)

By Michael Upshall

On March 13, 2021

In AI, book reviews, indexing

Reading Time: 4 minutes

I’m a great admirer of the Very Short Introductions: clear, concise outlines of a topic by an expert in the field. Well, this book is certainly very short, but how good is it as an introduction? Readers hoping for a good …

How exhibition catalogues are organised

By Michael Upshall

On March 3, 2021

In indexing, scholarly publishing

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Nicolaes Maes, Vertumnus and Pomona, c.1655, not in the exhibition catalogue (but who knows?)

When creating a digital collection of textual content, some attempt is made to structure the individual texts in a standard way. After all, every journal article has …