The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing
Creating indexes and thesauri: similarities and differences
Abstract
Heather Hedden explores the similarities and differences between back-of-the-book indexing and thesaurus creation, arguing that the similarities are such that a person with interests and skills in one area might consider work in the other, but warning that the differences are such that anyone transitioning from one activity to the other needs to study the other field first and not make unthought-through assumptions.