Jeannie Grassi started the project of indexing the Journal, and completed 1979-2002. I recently (a week ago) completed 2003-2020. I have combined them and loaded them to my
google docs.
I followed Jeannie's format, which was to do issue, article title, author first, author last, page number, core skill. I added description, into which I pasted the descriptions in the table of contents where that occurred. I tried to do core skill with a standard first term, followed by fairly standard additional terms.
In my portion, I began to omit such things as "Tuner's Life" and concentrate on technical material, including historical, business and health as well. The "core skills" field was entered mostly based on the title of each article without looking at its content, so details may be inaccurate. We're talking about over 500 issues, each with multiple articles, so this work is what I would call a rough first draft, in need of verification (including proofreading) and addition of details, but at least it is all entered.
I'm not sure how many have noticed that Clint uploaded pdfs of all Journals going back to 1979 a few weeks ago following a decision of the board at the summer meeting. That makes this kind of information doubly useful.
If anyone is interested in helping refine this index, please let me know.
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Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm@unm.eduhttp://fredsturm.nethttp://www.artoftuning.com"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Casteneda
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-12-2020 09:06
From: George W. R. Davis
Subject: Journal Indexing
An ongoing goal of the PTG Education Committee is to provide a searchable database of journal articles. Article titles sometimes are more cute than descriptive. To be useful a search function relies on relevant data being available. In the short term we are working on a simple function, indexing, ask about keys, get a list of articles.
The longer term requires preparing more detailed abstracts about each article which will enable more refined searches.
The Journal articles are absolutely one of the best reasons to belong to PTG.
Visit the constantly evolving Education Hub
Original Message:
Sent: 9/12/2020 2:58:00 AM
From: Blaine Hebert
Subject: RE: Journal Indexing
I eagerly look forward to where this thread or subject leads!
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Blaine Hebert
Duarte CA
626-795-5170
Original Message:
Sent: 09-11-2020 18:00
From: Floyd Gadd
Subject: Journal Indexing
With the rich resources we have at our disposal in the Journal, I value the ability not only to search, but to browse content. I recently have been working to do some indexing, and it occurred to me that posting the results as a Google Sheet would make it easily accessible by others. As of this posting, the link below leads to some indexing work I've done on the 2011 to 2015 journals. I hope it will be helpful.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A-Rrw2wUwGkE25kXD9hWvRIaWvN5i-AODkv5f6Lkhu0/edit?usp=sharing
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Floyd Gadd
Regina SK
306-502-9103
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