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Facts About Information Retrieval Technique Namely "Indexing System"
Dear friends,
Find herewith some important facts about Information Retrieval Technique namely "Indexing System". It will be very useful for preparing NET/SET Exam.
- The term "Information Retrieval" was coined by Colvin Mooers.
- Index and Indexing services comes under Documentation Service.
- The term "search strategy" is used in Indexing.
- Chain Indexing was developed by S.R.Ranganathan
- Frank shepard was the originator of citation Index.
- Systematic Indexing was devised by J.E.L.Farradane.
- co-ordinate Indexing was devised by Derek Austin.
- Uniterm Indexing was developed by Mortimer Taube in 1953.
- KWIC Indexing system was developed by H.P.Luhn in 1958
- KWIC Indexing system is an example of controlled Indexing Language.
- KWIC Indexing technique is based on Full Text.
- KWIC Indexing system is being used by American Chemical Society for Chemical Title.
- PRECIS(Preserved Context Indexing System) was developed by Derek Austin in 1974.
- PRECIS first adopted for subject heading in BNB ( British National Bibliography )
- In PRECIS ,interposed operators is represented by Roman small.
- POPSI ( Postulate based permuted subject Indexing system ) is invented by Ganesh Bhattacharya in 1964
- Eugene Garfield is related with Science Citation Index(SCI)
- SCI was broughtout in 1964 by ISI (INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION,)PHILADEPHIA
- Social Science Citation Index( SSCI) was broughtout in the year 1973
- The elementary categories of POPSI are DEAPM.
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Permalink Reply by SUMAN SINGH on
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Respected mam,
Thank you very much.....
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Respected mam,
Thank you very much.....
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Permalink Reply by Saba Sarasvdy on
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PRECIS is outdated. There are a few semantic indexing techniques such as B Tree etc.
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Permalink Reply by MALA.A on
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Dear mam,
For the examination point of view, I had furnished the facts about indexing system.PRECIS is one of the information retrieval technique,about which the questions are asked in NET/SET EXAM.
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It is correct. Your response is based on the syllabus which is totally obsolete and outdated. LIS syllabus fails to reflect the newer techniques in IR. Unfortunately we have been accessing old and outdated knowledge.
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Permalink Reply by Vishal Goel on
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Thanks Mam, for sharing this.
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