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New NISO Project To Bring Indexing Standard Up To Date

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
14 Jun 2019
New Standards, Guidelines and Drafts

Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new standardization project, Criteria for Indexes. This work, intended to become an ANSI standard to replace the Z39.4 standard that was withdrawn in 1997, will provide a modern approach to guidelines for the content, organization, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of documents and parts of documents…

It is expected that the new working group's output will provide advice for creating indexes that better fits today's presentation and use cases.

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