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Politics and the Art of Indexing: Teamwork in a Legislative Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2016

Cheryl Caballero ,
Erica Smith  and
Rosalind Guldner
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Abstract

In this article Cheryl Caballero, Erica Smith and Rosalind Guldner, members of the Ontario Legislative Assembly indexing team, describe the challenges of indexing legislative text and how they set about meeting them. A version of their article was originally published in The Indexer in June 2015*.

Keywords

indexingHansardOntarioCanada
Type
International Perspectives
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 22 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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