See: Book of Trogool, The Humble Index. http://scienceblogs.com/bookoftrogool/2009/08/the_humble_index.php
Excellent (luckily Dorothea's and my expertises are almost completely orthogonal :) )
BTW: any half decent librarian who knows her reference collection can answer a lot of fact-type questions faster with the right books with decent indexes than with the major search engine. Yay, indexers!
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I'd like to start our tour of book and library information-management techniques with a glance at the humble back-of-book index.
(Just to remind you all - I'm away on holiday and I've pre-scheduled the publication of several posts from my old blog at blogspot. This next entry was one that I got a lot of 'tsks, tsks" for - it was intrended tio be a tad toungue & cheek.
Personally I'm very skeptical of technical analysis, but that's just because I am skeptical of easy answers.
In education school, I was taught that the purpose of grading was to rank-order students -- to create a system whereby the highest-achieving students were ranked at the top and the lowest-achieving students were at the bottom.
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