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Permalink Reply by Ramesh Yernagula on November 6, 2012 at 4:33

Dear Pareek,

     Do u want sample  index on list of journals or journals articles .
pl confirm

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Permalink Reply by Abhishek Pareek on November 6, 2012 at 16:10

Dear Sir,

I want to do the indexing of the journals articles

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on November 6, 2012 at 18:37

Dear Sri Abhishek Pareek,

Thanks for your post and good wishes for your proposed work.
However, I am not clear whether you want to do the job for academic
purpose (like doing project/dissertation works for M.Phil/Ph.D. etc) or
out of professional commitment/requirement as a result of felt necessity.
I have mentioned it deliberately because each of these two make considerable difference in format contents and presentation. Any way, in any case certain issues are prerequisite & need to be pre-scheduled; like, identification of subject. and then feasibility of the work.In case it is NOT FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSE, the feasibility issue is extremely important. Because if already there exist any indexing/abstracting journal/database in your chosen subject field, your exercise will be virtually useless (as iot will be mere duplication of work and wastage of time and effort). By the way, in case you want to do indexing of particular journal or set of journals as a felt necessity (as you understand that it/they is/are not covered by any secondary bibliographic sources/databases) However, in any case you have to develop a thesaurus for context vocabulary so that you can base upon it. Practically speaking, it will be the actual backbone of your system. You have to identify the key words through this thesaurus. I would like to repeat that this is the most important and critical part of the entire activity and it requires a clear conception of the subject content.
You then select the Key words and explore articles and tag with those which MATCH with them. You have to assign serial numbers to articles and your assigned key words will have links (if you do it electronically) or reference to them. By the way, in case you want to prepare it in searchable soft copy format, you MUST develop a system for formulating search strategy for metadata recognition!

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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