 Book
indexing
Wikipedia
summarizes the subject of indexing books and other publications.
Kari
Kells explains the value of a human-created index for book sales.
Susan
Olason discusses a series of usability studies on book indexes
from a systems engineering and human factors perspective.
Marilyn
Joyce Rowland explains how an index is created from initial contact
between the client and indexer to the final product.
Seth
Maislin discusses the pros and cons of indexing your book
yourself.
You
don't want your book on one of these lists!
Here's
where you want to see your book!!!
Embedded
indexing and technical documentation
Peg
Mauer explains how to embed indexes in Microsoft Word and Adobe
FrameMaker documents.
Lori
Lathrop discusses the key points to writing a good index for a
technical document.
Outlines
different approaches recommended for indexing different types of
technical documentation.
Website
indexing
Summarizes
presentations about creating web indexes given at an ASI conference.
Heather
Hedden explains how a web index enhances searching by website users.
Fred
Leise discusses key issues in creating indexes for websites.
Chiara
Fox explains the advantages of employing sitemaps and site indexes as
part of website navigation.
Lori
Lathrop provides some
tips
for selecting
keywords in an online index.
Dr. Bella
Hass
Weinberg
summarizes lessons
learned from the historical development of book indexing methods with
application
to the Internet.
Kevin
Broccoli
explains how keywords and controlled vocabulary are used in conjunction
with search engines to make information findable on a website.
Blogs
and ezines
Thought
provoking discussions from internet innovations to back-of-the book
indexing and the business of being an indexer.
Taxonomies
and controlled vocabularies
Provides guidelines
on the basic tools for controlling vocabulary.
Defines and explains the use of controlled vocabularies.
Discusses
the origin of
taxonomies and their application in a modern business environment.
Provides a
succinct
definition of a thesaurus and its components.
Leonard
Will explains the
principles of thesaurus design and use within a library science context.
Metadata
Library
and Archives
Canada defines metadata, outlines the government's standards based on
Dublin Core, and explains how these standards fit into the "Common
Look and Feel" policy for federal government web sites.
Laura
Fillmore, of
Online Book
Systems,
provides a prophetic view of the value indexing brings to online
publishing
and the Internet.
A
technical
discussion about
using metadata
to improve searching on the Internet.
Discusses the history and usefulness of collaborative tagging.
Topic
maps
Steve
Pepper provides a
detailed discussion of topic maps and how to create them.
Organizations
American
Society of Indexers (ASI)
Australian
and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI)
China
Society of Indexers
Editors' Association of Canada (EAC)
Indexing
Society of Canada (ISC)
MITWA (Mentors, Indexers, Technical Writers & Associates)
Society for
Technical Communication (STC)
Society of
Indexers (SI)
Web Indexing SIG
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