Indexing The Project has basically been about improving intellectual access. The greater searching capacity of the technology allows the papers, when comprehensively indexed, to be interrogated in a way not possible previously. It has also been an opportunity to experiment with the application of a new technology to archives and manuscripts collections. Most imaging projects to date have concentrated on printed material, or single items or treasures, rather than on interrelated accumulations of documents. Access to documents relies on a combination of free text searching of background and other information provided, as well as subject indexing based on the content of documents.
Indexing occurs at both the level of the series, and at the individual document level.
Indexing takes a researcher to the relevant document or series of documents only, not to the page within a document where the subject is mentioned. At the series level, indexing terms describe subjects common to all documents within the series. Document level indexing describes significant information unique to a particular document only and does not duplicate subject entries which occur at the series level. The author of each document has been indexed. The recipient of a letter has been indexed only where the recipient is someone other than Banks.