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the author goes back to protoindexing, which, sur prisingly, can be found as early as the fifth century. Subject indexes were produced in the 14th century, and by the 17th were in very much the same form that we have today. In 1848 things really started moving in the United States. The first 'aids ' (in the 1940s) were punched cards, and several different methods are described. The next thing was to systematize classificatory terms, and indexing vocabularies were built up, event ually leading to the thesaurus, extensively used for indexing and searching documents. The KWIC index (described) was one of the first to be produced by a com puter, authors in 1957, subjects in 1960/61. Citation indexing of documents, too, can be almost entirely com puter-generated, and needs no special vocabulary. Finally, online services give direct and immediate access to computerized information, and commercial examples are briefly outlined for biology and cancer. But people will always control the indexing.

who participated in them, particularly the project co-ordination teams. The overall title of the ECML’s second medium-term programme (2004-2007) is “Languages for social cohesion – Language education in a multilingual and multicultural Europe”. This thematic approach should enable us to deal with one