Andy Plesser of Beet.tv interviewed Josh Cohen of Google News about the effort to index archived material.
RIPM: Retrospective Index, Online Archive, and E-Library of Music Periodicals Combines a highly annotated database providing detailed analyses of writings on musical history and culture with links to two searchable, full-text collections of over 165 rare music magazines and journals dating between 1760 and 1966.
Relevant literature was identified through eight electronic databases: AMED, British Nursing Index & Archive, CINAHL, EMBASE, IBSS, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and the Social Sciences Citation Index; and hand searches.
Databases searched included the British Nursing Index and Archive, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
The British Nursing Index and Archive (BNI) (1985-June 2009) was searched for "Nursing Homes", "Residential Care" and "Long-term care".
The electronic databases MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process, EMBASE, CINAHL, British Nursing Index and Archive, The Cochrane Library, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, PsycINFO and selected EPPI Centre Databases were searched.
The databases used for the review were the British Nursing Index and Archive, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).
GenBank started at Los Alamos National Laboratory as little more than a research project on how to index and archive DNA sequence, and quickly became an international resource and one of the major products of the National Library of Medicine and its National Center for Biotechnology Information (which was largely created to deal with just this type of data).
If language is the archives of history, as Emerson believed, then Schott's Vocab is an attempt to index those archives on the fly.
A trustee, Richard Major, a former town historian who helped found the society in 1970, is now busy indexing the archives.
