What is database indexing?
Here’s a response from an experienced database indexer: I index periodical/journal/newspaper articles, and my indexing appears in print journals or databases much like what Anne Day describes. I use a controlled vocabulary (a thesaurus) provided by the database producer, and create a list of descriptors (index entries) for an article. I could call myself either a periodical indexer or a database indexer. In BOB (my acronym for back-of-the-book) indexing, you have entries followed by locators (page numbers). In database indexing, the entries call up articles linked to a descriptor, and I think of the descriptors as locators as well. The bibliographic information (author, journal title, page numbers) is more information about the article either as a second level of locator or as index entry points for the article. {The article that ASI links you to from its database indexing page is really more about how database software has an “index” function, and how to utilize it, but you still have
