Lexicon

ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science http://lu.com/odlis/
A glossary of archival and records http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
The Information Professional's Glossary http://www.sir.arizona.edu/resources/glossary.html

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Assignment indexing
(ODLIS) A method of indexing in which a human indexer selects one or more subject headings or descriptors from a list of controlled vocabulary to represent the subject(s) of a work. The indexing terms selected to represent the content need not appear in the title or text of the document indexed. Synonymous with assigned indexing.
=Indexation de nomination

(A glossary of archival and records) The process of creating an ordered list of headings, using terms that may not be found in the text, with pointers to relevant portions in the material. Assignment indexing usually draws headings from a controlled vocabulary. Assignment indexing is distinguished from extraction indexing, typically done by a computer, which relies on the terms found in the document. At one point, assignment indexing was a manual process, requiring human judgment to link the headings to the concepts in the text. The process of assigning terms from a controlled vocabulary has been automated, with mixed success, by building rules of analysis that can assign headings on the basis of other, related terms in the text. =Indexation de nomination

Automation
(The Information Professional's Glossary) Changing from manual, paperbased methods of recording, organizing, and retrieving information to computerized systems. Circulation control and cataloging are among the most widely automated library functions.
=Automatisation

Automatic indexing
(ODLIS) a method of indexing in which an algorithm is applied by a computer to the title and/or the text of a work to identify and extract words and phrases representing subjects, for use as heading under which entries are made in the index.
=Indexation automatique

(A glossary of archival and records) The use of computers to enable concepts to be located within the material indexed. Early automatic indexing was largely limited to extraction indexing, relying on specific terms in the text to represent concepts. With increasing sophistication, computers were able to perform assignment indexing, allowing users to search using concepts in a controlled vocabulary using words that may not appear in the text. Both forms of automatic indexing created ordered lists of concepts that could be browsed, with pointers to the place where those concepts would appear in the text. Full-text search engines, such as those that index the web, create links between terms or phrases and the documents but generally do not produce a browsable list of headings.
also computer-based indexing, machine indexing
 

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Computer-aided retrieval
(A glossary of archival and records) The use of computers to aid access to information on physical media, especially microfilm. Computer-aided retrieval typically includes an index and sometimes a brief description of the material that can be searched. When relevant material is identified, the system may automatically load microfilm or offline-storage media containing the materials, then locate it within its container and display it.
=Recherche assistée par ordinateur

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Full-text search :
(A glossary of archival and records) (Computing) • A technique to provide access to electronic materials by indexing every word in every item.
Full-text searching is distinguished from manual indexing, which searches headings assigned to each document. Early full-text searching was limited, especially in its ability to distinguish different senses of a word; a search for glass might find documents relating to Philip Glass, window glass, and glass ice. More sophisticated search engines could use several terms, with Boolean logic and adjacency rules, to help narrow false hits. Modern search engines seen on the web use a variety of similar techniques to rank documents in terms of likely relevancy.
= Recherche en texte intégral

Autres sources

Library Terminology: A Guide for International Students
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/lib_servs/intl_students_terms.shtml
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/lex/
Glossary of Library Terms
Glossary of Academic Information Technology Terms
Library Terminology: A Guide for International Students