From jancw@mindspring.com Fri Feb 20 07:45:52 1998 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id HAA40496 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 07:45:51 -0800 Received: from camel8.mindspring.com (camel8.mindspring.com [207.69.200.58]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id HAA17610 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 07:45:49 -0800 Received: from newmicronpc (accs-as810-dp02.snfc.grid.net [206.80.178.179]) by camel8.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA15630 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:45:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980220074046.006a4884@pop.mindspring.com> X-Sender: jancw@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 07:40:46 -0800 To: index-nw@u.washington.edu From: "Jan C. Wright" Subject: Re: Web Indexing: How much should you include? In-Reply-To: <5F3E5C7DC23AD111BA84006097D159805380A7@pnlmse7.pnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is an interesting one! How evident is it in the short paragraph that the associated link tells more? That is partially what I would base my judgement on for this. If the link is easy to find, and you would click it without a second thought, then I might consider it. In online help systems, I do not index what is not there in the topic. But if the topic's link lead to it, and lead to it obviously, I consider it. Only if the text used in the links answer the question themselves... in other words, if they jump to the page looking for information on ducks, and the link centered in their view has the word ducks in it, okay ... if it doesn't, then no go. But --- The other consideration is how much the material on the facility's page is likely to change, and whether they would notify the keeper of the web index of all changes. If the material is "out of your realm" - not under your control - and you are not informed of changes, your index would go out of date if you index "off-site" material. So if you have no control over those pages and their content, and would not be informed of changes to them, I would keep it simple and just send them to the page that is within your realm of control. Jan Wright At 08:09 PM 2/19/98 -0800, you wrote: >Hello, > >I'm working on my first index of a home page, and I've run into a >question (just hit it head on without even looking :-) ). > >One of the sections mentions a facility and very briefly what it can do. >Then, it links to the facility's web page. The web page provides all >sorts of interesting information about the facility's capabilities that >isn't in the short paragraph. So, my question is as follows: in building >the index is it "o.k." to use the terms I've pulled from the in-depth >page and use them to send the reader to the short paragraph. My concern >is that when the reader sees the index entry and follows it the >paragraph, they aren't going to know why they were sent there. > >As I and the author don't have control over the in-depth pages, I can't >set up any links within the in-depth pages (I am referencing the page, >however). So, I'm limited to where I can send the reader. > >If someone could shed some light on whether I'm being attentive to >detail or rambling off in silly directions on this index, I would be >great appreciate it. > >Kristin Manke (new indexer; old technical editor) >kristin.manke@pnl.gov > .