Indexing: Principles and Practice

In brief:

Indexing is of great importance in the digital age - information needs to be efficiently found from sources such as the internet or intranets. This course relates to all kinds of material and covers general principles of indexing, the indexing process, specific points of practice, the relations between indexing and other ways of analysing and denoting content.

Course hightlights:

• Principles of indexing, and the indexing process
• Indexing as part of a metadata creation
• Controlled vocabularies for indexing
• Indexing policies

On completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the principles of indexing, and the indexing process
• Understand the relationship between indexing and metadata creation
• Understand the value of controlled languages for indexing
• Index different forms of material effectively and create an indexing policy