Subject indexing

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary.

Synonyms

indexing language subject heading information retrieval thesaurus text retrieval information science indexicalism ontology informatics terminology information management semantic field

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