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contribution by Poole
In William Frederick Poole …bibliographer and library administrator whose indexing of periodicals became authoritative. Read More
encyclopaedias
In encyclopaedia: Indexes Undoubtedly the major adjunct of the modern encyclopaedia is its index. As early as 1614 the bishop of Petina, Antonio Zara, included a type of index in his Anatomia ingeniorum et scientiarum (“Anatomy of Talents and Sciences”). A Greek professor at Basel, Johann Jacob… Read More
file structure
In computer science: Algorithms and complexity …numbered with consecutive integer “indexes” and an element’s value is accessed by its unique index. An array can be used, for example, to store a list of names, and efficient methods are needed to efficiently search for and retrieve a particular name from the array. For example, sorting the… Read More
history of “Encyclopaedia Britannica”
In Encyclopædia Britannica: Ninth edition The 24 volumes and index volume of the ninth edition appeared one by one between 1875 and 1889. At the end of the index volume was a list of contributors, together with the abbreviations used for their names as signatures to their articles. In addition, at the beginning of… Read More
information processing
In information processing: Primary and secondary literature …form of reviews, abstracts, and indexes. Over the past 100 years there has evolved a system of disciplinary, national, and international abstracting and indexing services that acts as a gateway to several attributes of primary literature: authors, subjects, publishers, dates (and languages) of publication, and citations. The professional activity associated… Read More
In information processing: Description and content analysis of analog-form records A technique called indexing provides a refinement over library subject headings. It consists of extracting from the item or assigning to it subject and other “descriptors”—words or phrases denoting significant concepts (topics, names) that occur in or characterize the content of the record. Indexing frequently accompanies abstracting, a… Read More
In Pappus of Alexandria Book 6 is a student’s guide to several texts, mostly from the time of Euclid, on mathematical astronomy. Book 8 is about applications of geometry in mechanics; the topics include geometric constructions made under restrictive conditions, for example, using a “rusty” compass stuck at a fixed opening. Read More
