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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 32, August 5 , 2001, Article 11

INDEXING SOFTWARE 

   Pere Smith writes: "I agree with Dick Johnson and Dave 
   Bowers' comments about the need for a comprehensive 
   index of numismatic periodicals.  Numismatic research 
   would be much easier and more complete with access to 
   such an index. 

   Is there a computer software package that could produce 
   an index?   I frequently use index programs that come with 
   word processing software.  These will create an index for 
   a book from the text.  That is not what is needed here.  I 
   am thinking of a package that would put title / author / 
   topic in a database along with the publication data and 
   then produce the full index from that data. 

   Although Dick Johnson says this index must be done by 
   one person, it would also be possible for several people 
   using the same software to index different periodicals and 
   then merge them into a single database and index. 

   Can any E-Sylum reader recommend software to produce 
   an index? " 

   [Although Smith and Bowers are discussing a necessarily 
   manual process, machine-generated indexing software 
   continues to show incremental improvements.  One 
   new tool for automatically categorizing documents with 
   machine intelligence is offered by a new company called 
   Vivisimo.  The company demonstrates its technology by 
   categorizing results returned by various internet search 
   engines.  To try it, go to:  http://www.vivisimo.com/ 
   For example, enter "Colonial Currency" in the search 
   box, and the results are categorized into folders labeled 
   Coins, Colonial America, History, Paper Money, United 
   States, Currency Auctions, etc. These categories are 
   not generated by humans, but by computer programs 
   which read and attempt to understand the text.  -Editor] 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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