Keyword indexing has had several different forms and many different applications in the social sciences. The BIDAP computer program generates various forms of indexing and facilitates their applications through great flexibility in accepting input and generating output. Professor James Aagaard is Systems Supervisor, Vogelback Computing Center, Northwestern University.
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References
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Marguerite Fischer , "The KWIC Index Concept: A Retrospective View ," American Documentation, 17 (April, 1966), 57-70.
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Kenneth Janda , "Keyword Indexes for the Behavioral Sciences ," American Behavioral Scientist, 7 (June, 1964), 55-58.
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See, for example, Oswald Werner's application of keyword indexing to Navaho medical terms, "Systematized Lexicography or 'Ethnoscience:' The Use of Computer Made Concordances," in Part I (American Behavioral Scientist, January, 1967) of this symposium on "Advances in Information Retrieval in the Social Sciences." An application of keyword indexing to roll call votes in legislative bodies is discussed in Kenneth Janda, Information Retrieval: Applications to Political Science (Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1967, forthcoming).
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A comprehensive KWIC index to the APSR has appeared as Kenneth Janda (ed.), Cumulative Index to the American Political Science Review, Volumes 1-57: 1906-1963. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press , 1964).
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EI KWIC — Keyword-in-Context Indexing Package for the IBM 709/90/94, SHARE General Program Library, IBM Corporation, Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532.
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IBM Publication E20-8091 (White Plains, New York: International Business Machines Corporation , 1962).
