前言主题标引与检索,在我国还是项新的工作。为适应汉字信息处理的需要,一九七九年底一部大型综合性检索工具书《汉语主题词表》问世。一九八三年国家标准《文献主题标引规则》正式颁布。去年公布的《档案著录规则》,把主题词规定为档案文件著录的一个必选项。现在,很多档案部门在进行主题标引试点,有的已正式开展了主题标引工作。我所去年结合档案机检系统试验,试标部分主题词。为进行主题标引,先后读了一些有 Foreword Topic indexing and retrieval, in our country is still a new job. In order to meet the needs of information processing of Chinese characters, a large comprehensive search tool “Chinese Thesaurus” was published at the end of 1979. The 1983 National Standard “Subject Matter for Indexing of Documents” was promulgated. Last year released the “Rules for the record of the file,” the keyword set as a required file entry record. At present, many archives departments are carrying out pilot projects of indexing, and some of them have formally conducted thematic indexing work. Last year, I combined with the file inspection system test, some of the subject of the test. In order to carry out the subject indexing, one after another read some