The Informer is the newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG).
There is a single issue in 1994, although that is volume 3, which implies there were earlier issues.
A useful source of information on IR.
It would be more useful, if there were an index.
Let’s turn that lack of an index into a topic map exercise:
- Select one issue of the Informer.
- Create a traditional index for that issue.
- Using one or more search engines, create a machine index for that issue.
- Create a topic map for that issue.
One purpose of the exercise is to give you a feel for the labor/benefit/delivery characteristics of each method.