"Content oriented" versus " Request oriented" views Request oriented indexing may be indexing that is targeted towards a particular audience or user group. For example, a library or a database for feminist studies may index documents different compared to a historical library. It is probably better, however, to understand request oriented indexing as policy based indexing: The indexing is done according to some ideals and reflects the purpose of the library or database doing the indexing. In this way it is not necessarily a kind of indexing based on user studies. Only if empirical data about use or users are applied should request oriented indexing be regarded as a user-based approach . The problem of whether the subject is in the content of a document (objectively) or in the mind of the individual users (subjectively) or in a community (intersubjectively, as a social construction) is a part of the philosophical subject–object problem .
"Content oriented" versus " request oriented" views Request oriented indexing may be indexing that is targeted towards a particular audience or user group. For example, a library or a database for feminist studies may index documents different compared to a historical library. It is probably better, however, to understand request oriented indexing as policy based indexing: The indexing is done according to some ideals and reflects the purpose of the library or database doing the indexing. In this way it is not necessarily a kind of indexing based on user studies. Only if empirical data about use or users are applied should request oriented indexing be regarded as a user-based approach .
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The problem of whether the subject is in the content of a document (objectively) or in the mind of the individual users (subjectively) or in a community (intersubjectively, as a social construction) is a part of the philosophical subject–object problem