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  • BS ISO 999:1996

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    Information and documentation. Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  30-06-2009

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Definitions
    4 Function of an index
    5 Types of index
         5.1 Subject indexes
         5.2 Author indexes
         5.3 Name indexes
         5.4 Geographic indexes
         5.5 Title indexes
         5.6 Number and code indexes
    6 Quality control
         6.1 Quality of indexes
         6.2 Length and detail of indexes
         6.3 Consistency in indexing
         6.4 Relations between the indexer and author/
               publisher/user
    7 Content and general organization
         7.1 General content and construction
         7.2 Concepts: representation in headings and
               subheadings
         7.3 Proper names and titles of documents: choice
               and form of headings
         7.4 Locators
         7.5 Cross-references
    8 Arrangement of entries in indexes
         8.1 Basic order of filing characters
         8.2 Word-by-word versus letter-by-letter
               alphabetization
         8.3 Alphanumeric arrangement
         8.4 Filing index headings
         8.5 Index headings beginning with the same term
         8.6 Filing subheadings
         8.7 Filing entries which include cross-references
    9 Presentation of printed indexes
         9.1 Preparation of index copy for final processing
         9.2 Introductory note
         9.3 Presentation of published index
         9.4 Search aids
         9.5 Set-out (indented) style versus run-on
               (paragraph) style for layout
    Annex
    A Bibliography
         Index

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    Gives guideline for the content, organization and presentation of indexes.

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    Committee IDT/2/18
    Development Note Supersedes BS 3700(1988) and 93/620558 DC. (01/2003)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Current
    Supersedes

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    BS 8723-3:2007 Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Guide Vocabularies other than thesauri
    BS 8723-2:2005 Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Guide Thesauri

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    ISO 9:1995 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters — Slavic and non-Slavic languages
    ISO 5127-1:1983 Documentation and information — Vocabulary — Part 1: Basic concepts
    ISO 690:2010 Information and documentation Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources
    ISO 5127-6:1983 Documentation and information — Vocabulary — Part 6: Documentary languages
    ISO/TR 8393:1985 Documentation — ISO bibliographic filing rules (International Standard Bibliographic Filing Rules) — Exemplification of Bibliographic filing principles in a model set of rules
    ISO 259:1984 Documentation — Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters
    ISO 2788:1986 Documentation — Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri
    ISO 5776:2016 Graphic technology — Symbols for text proof correction
    ISO 5127-3A:1981 Information and documentation — Vocabulary — Section 3a): Acquisition, identification, and analysis of documents and data
    ISO 7154:1983 Documentation Bibliographic filing principles
    ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
    ISO 3602:1989 Documentation — Romanization of Japanese (kana script)
    ISO 843:1997 Information and documentation Conversion of Greek characters into Latin characters
    ISO 5964:1985 Documentation Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri
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    ISO 233:1984 Documentation — Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters
    ISO 5963:1985 Documentation — Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects, and selecting indexing terms
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