Newspaper archives: indexing Cumhuriyet

Alakuş, Meral

The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing (2011), 29, (4), 171–179.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2011.46
Language: English
Pages: 9

Abstract

Newspaper indexing provides a gate to the first-hand history of daily events of our past and current times. Often, the primary users of a newspaper index are the journalists who work for that paper themselves. It is vital to prompt retrieval that standard sets of terms be used – via a simple controlled vocabulary, a taxonomy or a thesaurus – within that newspaper’s archive. Here, Meral Alakuş describes the issues surrounding newspaper indexing in general, with specific examples from Turkey’s national newspaper, Cumhuriyet.

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