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The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary.
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Subject indexing — is the act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content. Indices are constructed, separately, on three distinct levels: terms in a document such as a book; objects in a collection such … Wikipedia
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Miskito grammar — This article provides a grammar sketch of the Miskito language, the language of the Miskito people of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, a member of the Misumalpan language family. There also exists a brief typological overview of the… … Wikipedia
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