An important and often overlooked aspect in indexing is the indexers’ implicit or explicit interests, perhaps since it is expected that the indexers will assume a neutral role or no role at all. However, since analysis in indexing is a context-dependent interpretation and decision making process, the indexer unavoidably assumes a certain position. An analysis of the indexer’s role is needed to make it explicit. The indexer could, for instance, assume an active, ‘‘exploitative’’ (Wilson, 1968, p. 25) role in which the indexer makes clear judgments in the representation of the documents; alternately, the indexer could assume a more ‘‘descriptive’’ (Wilson, 1968, p. 51) role where the indexer attempts to represent the document as neutrally as possible. These choices cannot be made at the global level of indexing standards; the exact role of the indexer is determined locally.