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To Endnote:

When you come to incorporate a keyword index facility in your update please
make it hierarchical rather than a single linear list; I think this is
essential for the following reasons.

The general point is that one often wants to access a reference at
different levels of detail. To take an example from one of my own
interests, anti-predator behaviour in animals, I may want to list: all
references in this category; only references in the subcategory of
'vigilance for predators'; only references in the sub-subcategory of the
effects of prey group size on vigilance; and so on. To have all these
keywords in a single list would lose the relationships between them, and
make it very difficult to remember what all the subcategories were. (The
logic of this is just like the Dewey decimal system of library cataloguing
used in the UK.)

Obviously more than one keyword would often be attached to a reference. New
keywords could be added, at lower levels in the hierarchy, as one got into
a research area in more detail. In addition one could use a high level
keyword for a reference one hadn't yet seen, and later add lower level
keywords once got the reference and saw exactly what was in it.

The hierarchical lists should be able to drop down having selected the
relevant keyword from the next level up. I would suggest at least 5 levels.


To users:

Any comments on this?

John Lazarus





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