Glossary of terms relating to thesauri and other forms of structured vocabulary for information retrieval Leonard D. Will, Willpower Information thesaurus, thesauri, information retrieval, controlled vocabularies, glossary, definitions, structured vocabularies, facets, faceted classification 1998-12-31 2011-12-13 10:39:38 en indexing intellectual analysis of the subject matter of a document to identify the concepts|concept represented in it, and allocation of the corresponding preferred terms|preferred term to allow the information to be retrieved
The term "subject indexing" is often used for this concept, but within a context that does not deal with other elements such as authors or dates, "indexing" is sufficient. indexing 2011-03-07 12:16:31