Web Indexing Articles by Nancy Humphreys

Indexing on the Web. Explains the differences between indexing print documents and indexing web sites. (KeyWords, Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 165-167, Nov-Dec 2001.)

Mind Maps: Hot New Tools Proposed for Cyberspace Librarians. A proposal for the creation of a human-generated subject index for the Internet using XML and middleware. (The Searcher, June 1999 (link to The Searcher).

Putting Our Heads Together: Reference Librarians and Indexers. Creation of hypertext links in a virtual library reference collection catalog on the Internet is a way for information seekers to be better served than by merely indexing what is on the Internet now. (KeyWords, Newsletter of the American Society of Indexers, pp. 1+, Vol. 4, No. 5, Sept-Oct 1996.)

Reference Annealing: Let's Stop Reinventing the Answer. Reference librarians should cooperate to avoid duplication of effort and create an online reference catalog. Hypertext links could make a virtual reference library especially valuable for reference work. (RQ, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp459(5), Summer 1995.)