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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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