Indexing Humor about Indexing & Indexers
This collection began with submissions by indexers to a game at a CINDEX reception during the May 2000 ASI conference. Additions have been made since then. If you wish to submit a new item or…
Why Create Indexes for Publications?
According to Peter Meyers, former associate publisher for O’Reilly Media’s Missing Manual series, indexes provide many benefits. A good index: includes concepts, not just words, enabling “thematic and concept-specific explorations” of the book provides “guided…
Publishing & Indexing Presentations
David K. Ream, LevTech’s principal consultant, has presented at the annual conferences and chapter meetings of the American Society of Indexers, the UK Society of Indexers, and the Australian/New Zealand Society of Indexers. [Note: the…
Indexes versus Searching in Publications
Many publishers and technology experts are foregoing including indexes in web, eBook, and other electronic products. At times this is understandable, after all indexing the entire content of the World Wide Web is not humanly…
Index Data Exchange XML (IXML)
Indexers and publishers employ various software in their workflow. Different situations can arise that require index data to be moved between or processed by different software. Index data can be rich: beyond the basic ASCII…