From Index to Network: Topic Maps in the Enhanced Networked Monographs Project

Abstract

The Enhanced Networked Monographs (ENM) project was an experimental publishing project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and carried out from 2015-2018. Over the course of the project, we developed methods to extract topics from indexes, built tools to curate the result of the integration, and created a platform for reading. This article will discuss the creation of the ENM topic map, a meta-index created by combining many individual back-of-book indexes using the Topic Curation Toolkit.