Indekliniseeritavad

Indekliniseeritavad is term used in information retrieval to describe objects that can be indexed by an information system or search engine. In Estonian, the word denotes items that can be processed by crawlers and parsers to be included in an index, which supports fast and relevant search results. The core idea is that content or metadata of these objects can be extracted, organized, and stored to facilitate discovery.

Scope and criteria: Typically indekliniseeritavad include web pages, documents (such as PDFs and Word files), datasets, and multimedia files when they carry machine-readable text or metadata. Key criteria are that the content is accessible to automated agents, the text or metadata yields meaningful search terms, there is a stable identifier, and there are no policy or technical barriers preventing indexing. Metadata fields like title, author, date, and keywords enhance indexability.

Examples: a news article with HTML text and structured metadata; a PDF with selectable text; a dataset described by a metadata record; an image accompanied by descriptive alt text. Non-indexable cases include content rendered entirely by client-side scripts without accessible text, images without meaningful metadata, or content restricted by access controls or robots.txt.

Importance and applications: Understanding what is indekliniseeritav helps organizations design crawlable content, improve search quality, and support discovery in digital libraries, knowledge bases, and e-commerce catalogs. The concept also intersects with accessibility, multilingual indexing, and copyright considerations.