Cumulative i-TORQUE Index

Issues 1 through 23

January 2003 through May/June 2005

Written by Michael Brackney

Brackney Indexing Service

brackney@nccn.net

Formatted as specified by Bayside Indexing Service

 

This index is arranged in word-by-word order as recommended in NISO TR03: Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters & Sorting of Numerals & Other Symbols. The reference locator format is issue number.page number, as in “8.12,” a reference to issue No. 8 (September 2003), page 12. The index has an average of 7.9 entries and .8 cross-references per page covering 377 pages in the following i-TORQUE issues:

 


No. 1 (January 2003)

No. 2 (February 2003)

No. 3 (March 2003)

No. 4 (April 2003)

No. 5 (May/June 2003)

No. 6 (July 2003)

No. 7 (August 2003)

No. 8 (September 2003)

 

No. 9 (October 2003)

No. 10 (Nov./Dec. 2003)

No. 11 (January 2004)

No. 12 (February 2004)

No. 13 (March 2004)

No. 14 (April 2004)

No. 15 (May/June 2004)

No. 16 (July 2004)

 

No. 17 (August 2004)

No. 18 (September 2004)

No. 19 (October 2004)

No. 20 (Nov./Dec. 2004)

No. 21 (Jan./Feb. 2005)

No. 22 (March/April 2005)

No. 23 (May/June 2005)

 


Introductory Note:

Page numbers followed by ph indicate photos.

Page numbers followed by t indicate tables.

Titles in quotes designated as “article,” “paper,” “story,” or “study” indicate works discussed as
opposed to i-TORQUE articles.



Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

Numbers

3" x 5" cards technology. See index cards technology

“3.1 Miles Offshore,” 23.11

9/11 (September 11, 2001)

and U.S. book production in 2002, 6.1-2; 16.1, 6

The 9/11 Commission Report, 17.11

“20 Ways to Say 'No'” list (Creel), 22.10

“1961: High Hopes,” 16.11

“1985: Dashed Hopes,” 16.12

“2000 Professional Activities and Salary Survey” (ASI), 1.2-3; 2.1-2


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

A

A9.com (search engine) (Amazon), 15.12

AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules), 17.1-2

AACR2 index

design, 17.2-4

excellence, 17.1

indexability guidelines, 17.4

reader groups, 17.2-3

reviewer contributions, 17.4-5

updating of, 17.5

AAG (Association of American Geographers)

Places Online website, 12.11

ABA. See American Booksellers Association (ABA)

abbreviations

of inclusive page numbers, 7.1, 9

MediLexicon resource, 10.11

accounting industry

tax return preparation offshoring, 12.4-5

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

suit against the Patriot Act, 8.14

Acrobat. See Adobe Acrobat

acronyms

federal agency acronym resource, 19.13

MediLexicon resource, 10.11

spellouts, 1.5

Activate plug-in for Adobe Acrobat (Virginia Systems), 17.12, 13

Adobe Acrobat

Activate plug-in, 17.12, 13

business uses, 5.10

version 6 suite, 5.9

Adobe InDesign CS

embedded indexing in, 14.9; 17.13

Adobe Reader (Acrobat Reader), 5.9; 6.15

African language materials cataloging website (Bertelsen), 9.13

“After the Dot-Bomb” article (Bates), 1.10-11

age-appropriate vocabularies for children's book indexes, 20.2-4

Agendus desktop software, 17.8

agriculture books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-6

Aiken, Paul

on e-book rights, 2.16

airline reservations, 21.14

ALA. See American Library Association (ALA)

Alburty, Stevan

on looking oneself up in an index, 5.17

Allen, David

on anxiety about undone tasks, 16.14

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, 16.14

on short-term memory, 17.14

on the tickler file, 20.14

alphabetizing rules. See sorting rules (alphabetizing/filing rules)

“Alternative Sources of Work” article (Browne), 9.12

Amazon Browser (TouchGraph), 2.13

“Amazon Goes Data Crazy,” 23.10

“Amazon Offers Full-Text Search of Books,” 10.12-15

“Amazon Plans to Scan Books,” 7.14-15

Amazon.com

A9.com (search engine), 15.12

book-scanning operation, 7.14-15; 9.13; 10.12, 13

browsers, 2.13; 4.12

finding forthcoming book titles on, 8.9

Look Inside the Book, 7.14, 15; 10.14

scanned book print function disabled, 10.13

See also Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com)

“Amazon's Search Engine,” 15.12

America Online. See AOL (America Online)

American Booksellers Association (ABA), 8.13

website, 8.15

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

suit against the Patriot Act, 8.14

“American Libraries: Signs of the Times,” 3.11-12

American Library Association (ALA)

Patriot Act resolution, 3.12; 9.6

American Power Conversion (APC) UPSs, 10.5-6

“American Printers with Excess Capacity,” 23.12

American Reading Company

Random House Ventures investment in, 23.12

American Scientific Surplus website, 20.10

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 5.4

American Society of Indexers (ASI)

“2000 Professional Activities and Salary Survey,” 1.2-3; 2.1-2

focus on new vs. established indexers, 9.5

promotional failure, 9.4

promotional responsibility, 9.5

web link, 1.2

Anacubis (visualizer) website, 4.12

Anderson, Charles

Timekeep for Windows, 20.14; 21.7-9

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. See AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules); AACR2 index

animations

Pixar shorts, 11.13

“Another Fruitful Market?,” 23.13

“Another Lawsuit Filed,” 20.10

answering machines, 17.15

vacation setting, 21.15

anti-virus software, 1.8; 19.14

resources on, 19.14

AntiVirus (Norton), 1.8

anxiety about undone tasks condition, 16.14

cognitive overload, 21.14

information anxiety resource, 15.12

AOL (America Online)

member service calls to India, 12.4

search engine relationship (usage) chart, 8.12

APC (American Power Conversion) UPSs, 10.5-6

APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) website, 1.9

appliances

embedded operating systems in, 2.11

“The Application of Index Entries to Search and Retrieval of Books and Book Content” article (Stelmach), 7.15

application reinstallations, 15.6

Applied Semantics

“CIRCA Technology: Applying Meaning to Information Management” article, 5.11

“As We May Think” article (Bush), 14.12

ASCII order, 8.8

ASCII text editors, 10.9

Ashcroft, John

and the Patriot Acts, 8.14; 9.6

ASI. See American Society of Indexers (ASI)

Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture, 3.10

ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science and Technology), 5.4

Ask Jeeves natural language search engine, 15.11

assignment of rights contracts, 1.14

Association of American Geographers (AAG)

Places Online website, 12.11

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website, 1.9

Atlas of Cyberspaces, 9.11

atlases

Atlas of Cyberspaces, 9.11

Harry Potter Wizards's Atlas, 7.13

TMP Atlas, 3.8

auditing tool for PC computers, 16.9

author indexes (name indexes), 15.9

authority files

directory (Taxonomy Warehouse), 5.11

resources on, 5.11; 8.12

SOL word lists, 20.4

authors. See writers (authors)

Authors Guild

on Amazon's book-scanning operation, 9.13; 10.12, 13

on e-book rights, 2.16

automatic classification/categorization, 9.11; 10.10; 12.12

“CIRCA Technology” article (Applied Semantics), 5.11

hopes for, in 1961 and 1985, 16.11, 12

Internet information analysis project (IBM), 12.12

resources on, 2.6; 9.11; 12.12; 19.14

software programs, 10.10; 19.14

STAIRS document-retrieval system, 16.12

text mining, 10.10, 11

translation project (Microsoft), 14.11

See also automatic indexing

automatic indexing

Indexicon review web link, 1.11

prediction of, in 1961, 16.11

text mining as like, 10.10

“Automatic Indexing: An Experimental Inquiry” article (Maron), 16.11

automatic translation

Machine Translation project (Microsoft), 14.11


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

B

back-office operations. See offshoring (outsourcing) (BPO)

Back Page

“A book without an Index is for the birds,” 22.15ph

“Dishonorable Mentions,” 16.16

“Errata,” 8.17

“Happy Holidays,” 20.16

“Index” (poem) author comments, 19.16

“Indexer” license plates, 14.16ph

“Indexer” sticker, 6.17

“Indexers Find Index in Rural Virginia,” 4.17ph

“Indexer's Nightmare,” 9.17

“Indexers' Office Assistants,” 21.17ph; 22.15ph

Indexers' Rest Home posters, 2.18

Indexers' Rest Home video, 23.15

“Indexers Reveal Themselves,” 1.16-17; 7.17-18

indexing guidelines for authors (CUP), 11.17

Julia Child memorial page, 18.15

on looking oneself up in an index, 5.17

“Odd Mishaps Cause Computer Grief,” 10.17

“Offices of Two Indexers,” 15.15ph; 17.17ph

offshore indexer job ad, 12.15ph

“reference locator,” 13.16ph

“Where is Index?,” 3.14-15ph

Back Page collection suggestion (letter), 22.7

background checks on new clients, 4.13-15

Backup My PC (Stomp), 15.6

backup systems, 2.9-10; 15.5-6

bad indexes (poor quality) problem, 9.2; 10.15; 16.12

Barnes & Noble ebook operation closure, 9.12

Barnum, Carol

“Index vs. Full-text search” usability study, 17.12-13

Bates, Marcia L.

“After the Dot-Bomb” article, 1.10-11

“Indexing and Access for Digital Libraries and the Internet” article, 2.6

Bederson, Ben, 22.11

BeLarc Advisor, 16.9

Bell, Hazel

on passing mentions and long strings of locators, 7.8

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 1.16

website articles and interview, 3.9

benchmark HT3481, 13.16ph

Berg, A. Scott

Kate Remembered, 7.13

Berman, Cynthia

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 7.17

Berners-Lee, Tim

“The Semantic Web” article, 3.9

Bertelsen, Cynthia

“Issues in Cataloging Non-Western Materials” website, 9.13

“The Best Search Idea Since Google” article (Johnson), 10.12

Better Business Bureau

checking out new clients through, 4.14

Biel Meridian, 9.11

biographies

U.S. production trends, 6.2-4; 16.2-6

biological names. See plant names (scientific names)

BISG (Business Industry Study Group)

small and midsize publishers study, 23.13

Blair, David C.

“An Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness for a Full-Text Document-Retrieval System” article, 16.12

Blaise, Clark

Time Lord, 9.10

blogs. See weblogs

BLS. See Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

BMW 745i iDrive feature, 2.11

Boiko, Bob

Content Management Bible, 5.4

on metadata types, 5.1

bold type in indexes, 23.7

boldfaced locators

in encyclopedia indexes, 19.10

Bolton, Nick

MailWasher, 12.9-10

book category production trends in the U.S., 6.2-5; 16.2-6; 18.7; 22.2-5

“Book Indexing in a Digital World,” 3.1-3

“Book Trade Deficit with China,” 23.12

“A book without an Index is for the birds,” 22.15ph

books

children's book indexes, 20.1-5

finding forthcoming titles on Amazon, 8.9

Google's book-information-in-search projects, 11.14-15

Google's digitizing project, 21.11

imports, 20.13

indexes as content search tools (article), 7.15

in India, 13.1-4

library listing service for stockings of specific books, 11.14

project cancellations/suspensions due to U.S. sanctions and OFAC regulations, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

public library book buying and circulation in 2004, 22.1

text structure required for indexing in The Zone at low rates without sacrificing quality, 8.6, 7

U.S. production, 2001-2002, 6.1-6, 3t, 4t; 16.1, 6

U.S. production, 2002-2003, 16.1-3, 2t, 3t, 6; 22.2-5

U.S. production, 2003 vs. 2001, 16.4, 4t, 6

U.S. production trends, by category, 6.2-5; 16.2-6; 18.7; 22.2-5

U.S. sales, 2001-2002, 5.12; 6.5-6

U.S. trade deficit with China, 23.12

usefulness vs. Internet usefulness, 3.2

See also digitizing (scanning) of books; ebooks; full-text searches; lawbooks; Look Inside the Book (Amazon.com); printed books (on paper); reference books; Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com)

booksellers

Freedom to Read Protection Act support, 8.15

Patriot Act and, 3.12; 4.15

See also publishers

Booth, Pat

on long strings of locators, 7.8

on see under and see also under references, 3.6

botanical names. See plant names (scientific names)

bottom-feeder market (for indexers), 20.7-8

Boutin, Paul

“Keeper Finders” article, 21.12

Bowker book production press releases, 6.1, 2; 16.1

U.S. book production statistics, 2001-2002, 6.1-6; 16.1

U.S. book production statistics, 2002-2003, 16.1-6; 22.4

website, 6.6

Boxes and Arrows website, 5.4, 12

“Creating a Controlled Vocabulary” article, 5.12

“Developing and Creatively Leveraging Hierarchical Metadata and Taxonomy” article, 17.10

IA Summit 2004 article, 14.10

“Synonym Rings and Authority Files” article, 8.12

“What Is a Controlled Vocabulary?” article, 3.10; 4.3

BPO (business process outsourcing). See offshoring (outsourcing) (BPO)

Brackney, Michael

Macrex macros presentation, 22.9

TheBrain (graph-based interface), 2.13

BrainBoost natural language search engine, 15.11

Bray, Tim

information visualization web link, 9.11

Britannica's return to printing on paper, 4.11

British firms outsourcing to India, 12.4

broadband connections

firewall hardware (routers), 15.4-5

firewall software, 1.7-8; 15.4, 5

Brody, William R.

on librarians as human search engines, 21.10

Brooks, Terrence A.

“Web Search: How the Web Has Changed Information Retrieval” article, 7.13

Browne, Glenda

on classified entries (letter), 5.5-6

job markets beyond print publishing article, 9.12

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 7.17

on push technology (letter), 2.6

Website Indexing: Enhancing Access to Information within Websites, 2nd Ed., 16.10; 17.6; 21.13

browsers, 13.12

alternatives to Internet Explorer, 13.12

Amazon browsers, 2.13; 4.12

Firefox, 13.12; 20.11

Java-enabled browsers, 13.12

logos (favicons), 16.7

Metabrowser, 4.5

Mozilla, 13.12; 15.10; 18.9

on PDAs, 13.12

See also visualizers (of Web search results)

“Browsing for Browsers,” 13.12

Bruce Clay, LLC

Search Engine Relationship Chart, 8.12

Buckland, Michael

on Otlet (Paul), 14.12

Builder.com

article writing offshoring, 14.11

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

employment estimates, 1.1-2

wage estimates, 1.1-2, 3; 2.1

burnout

in indexers, 16.13, 14

Bush, Vannevar

“As We May Think” article, 14.12

“Bush Campaigner's Prozac Solution,” 20.13

business books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-5; 16.2-6

business equipment

cost analysis, 15.3

essential peripherals, 15.1-2

generators, 10.5

hard drive backup systems, 2.9-10; 15.5-6

multifunction products, 15.2-3

printers, 5.7-8; 10.6; 15.2-4

shredders, 15.2

telephone line, 12.8; 14.7

UPSs, 9.7; 10.5-6; 15.1-2, 7

USB ports/hubs, 15.7

Wi-Fi networks, 15.7

See also answering machines; computers; software; telephones

Business Industry Study Group (BISG)

small and midsize publishers study, 23.13

business process outsourcing (BPO). See offshoring (outsourcing) (BPO)

business telephone line

costs, 14.7

unlisted address option, 12.8

Yellow Page listings, 14.7

businesses

contact access options, 12.8

See also business equipment; indexing businesses; offices

button maker application, 14.8


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

C

The Cactus Family (Anderson)

scientific name index, 2.7-8; 3.5

calendars

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

imports, 20.13

paper-based calendars, 17.7

Renaissance Library Collection website, 20.10

See also to do lists

California Digital Library (CDL)

eScholarship Editions, 11.13

California Labor Code

and work for hire contracts, 1.13-14

Calishain, Tara, 6.13

Google Hacks, 5.12

Web Search Garage book and website, 18.13

Calvert, Jay

computer security resources, 19.14

cameras

PBase (photo sharing/hosting) website, 23.9

cancer

National Cancer Institute Thesaurus, 13.14

“Cancer Ontology,” 13.14

cars

embedded operating systems in, 2.11

cartoons

Punch website, 6.13

Cass, Stephen

on IBM's WebFountain project (article), 12.12

cataloging non-western materials website (Bertelsen), 9.13

categorization

introduction to, 19.14

See also automatic classification/categorization

categorization software, 10.10; 19.14

category-subcategory relationships

in classified entries, 4.8-9; 5.5-6; 6.9-10

CCH Inc.

tax return preparation offshoring, 12.4

CDL (California Digital Library)

eScholarship Editions, 11.13

certification of indexers (issue), 9.3

change-in-project-scope agreements, 5.13-15

charging for indexing. See indexing rates (pay rates)

charging for printing PDF files, 5.7-8

Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed. (CMS-15), 7.1, 6

index, 7.5-6

indexer ideal (in current vs. previous versions), 7.2-3

indexing chapter publication, 7.6

indexing software compatibility with, 7.9-10

Chicago Manual of Style indexing rules, 7.1-6

“continued lines,” 7.5-6

cross-reference target main heading–subheading separator, 7.3

hyphen sort, 18.7

inclusive page number abbreviations, 7.1, 9

indented index sub-subheading run-in format, 7.4, 10

indexing software compatibility with, 7.9-10

numerals sort, 18.8

see also reference placement, 7.3

sorting rules (alphabetizing rules), 7.4-5, 9; 18.7, 8

Chief Ontologist job title, 1.10-11

Child, Julia

cookbook index formats, 1.4

on indexes, 18.15

memorial page, 18.15

children's book indexes, 20.1-5

controlled vocabularies for, 20.2-4

Internet resources, 20.5

prevalence, 20.1-2

review issues, 20.4-5

teaching of children how to use, 20.5

China

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.3; 20.12; 23.12

U.S. book trade deficit with, 23.12

Chizen, Bruce

on ebooks, 9.12

Christian books

U.S. production trends, 22.4-5

“CIRCA Technology: Applying Meaning to Information Management” article (Applied Semantics), 5.11

Clarke, Michèle

on Henige's JSP article on indexing (web link), 3.4

classification

introduction to categorization, 19.14

See also automatic classification/categorization; classification systems/schemes

classification systems/schemes, 4.8; 5.2-3

directory (Taxonomy Warehouse), 5.11

indexers and classification system/taxonomy design, 5.2; 6.15

for indexing (Weinberg paper), 3.10

for law library materials (Moys website), 20.11

as ontologies, 1.10-11; 3.9; 5.11

political issues involved in designing, 4.1, 4; 5.3

resources on, 15.12; 17.10

and search (article), 9.11

See also automatic classification/categorization; controlled vocabularies; taxonomies; thesauri

classified entries, 4.8-9; 5.5-6; 6.9-10

mixing nonclassified entries with, 4.8-9; 5.5

cleaning up cluttered offices, 17.14-15

“Cleaning Up the Tracks,” 3.7

ClearForest (automatic categorization program), 10.10; 19.14

clearing short-term memory space, 17.14

clients

checking out new clients, 4.13-15

negotiating with, 8.5; 9.1-2

See also job markets (for indexers)

ClinicalTrials.gov

information resources, 23.9

clocks

master clocks, 9.9

clustering search engines, 11.11

cluttered offices (littered offices), 15.15ph; 16.11

cleaned up, 17.17ph

cleaning up, 17.14-15

CMS-15. See Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed. (CMS-15)

CMSs. See content management systems (CMSs)

“Cognitive Flow,” 22.11

cognitive overload, 21.14

See also anxiety about undone tasks condition

color

in index formats, 1.4

Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, 3.8

Columbia University Press (CUP)

indexing guidelines for authors, 11.17

Communications Workers Union (CWA)

on British firms outsourcing to India, 12.4

companies involved in offshoring, 12.3-7; 22.13

Compensation in the Publishing Field, 1.1

“Complexity in Indexing Systems: Abandonment and Failure” paper (Weinberg), 3.10

composition industry

offshoring in, 20.12

compressed page numbers (inclusive page number abbreviations), 7.1, 9

computer books (technology books)

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-6; 22.3

computer crashes

hard drive backup systems, 2.9-10; 15.5-6

computer games

Snood, 21.10

wastebasket toss game, 12.11

computer interfaces for minimizing distractions, 22.11

computer peripherals

essential devices, 15.1-2

multifunction products, 15.2-3

printers, 5.7-8; 10.6; 15.2-4

UPSs, 9.7; 10.5-6; 15.1-2, 7

USB ports/hubs, 15.7

Wi-Fi networks, 15.7

computer security

anti-virus software, 1.8; 19.14

firewall hardware (routers), 15.4-5

firewall software, 1.7-8; 15.4, 5

hard drive backup systems, 2.9-10; 15.5-6

resources on, 19.14

ComputerGear website, 20.10

computers

auditing tool (for PCs), 16.9

hard drive backup systems, 2.9-10; 15.5-6

interfaces for minimizing distractions, 22.11

vulnerability check, 19.14

See also computer games; computer peripherals; computer security; power outage protection

confessions (Mulvany), 16.13; 21.10

confluence points photo project, 17.9

Connected DataProtector (Connected TLM), 2.10; 15.6

consistency (in indexing)

parallel topics, 15.8-9

wording inconsistencies, 19.9-10

contact lists

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

Content Management Bible (Boiko), 5.4

content management systems (CMSs)

taxonomy design markets, 5.3

“continued lines” in indexes, 7.5-6

contracts

assignment of rights contracts, 1.14

background checks on new clients, 4.13-15

change-in-project-scope agreements, 5.13-15

death clauses, 23.8

deliverables section, 5.13-15

for large projects, 5.14-15

as PDFs, 5.10

quality of work product clauses, 2.15-16

sample book indexing contract web link, 5.13

satisfactory performance clauses, 2.14-15

taxonomy design contracts, 5.4

unacceptable work clauses, 2.14-15

work for hire contracts, 1.12-14

controlled vocabularies, 4.1, 3-4

for children's book indexes, 20.2-4

creation process resource, 5.12

digital publishing resource, 3.8

glosso-thesaurus, 12.11

IA Summit 2004 panel on, 14.10

introductory resource, 3.10; 4.3

MeSH information resources, 23.9

NISO standard, 23.9

See also taxonomies

“Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus” article (Fast, Leise, and Steckel), 12.11

Cook, David, 23.11

cookbook indexes

Child on, 18.15

classified entries, 6.9-10

color formats, 1.4

cookies (spyware)

removal software, 3.7; 6.12

cooking

recipe websites, 5.12; 19.13

Cooking along the Ganges

classified index entries, 6.9-10

“Cooking for Engineers,” 19.13

Cook's Thesaurus, 8.10

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 9.9

Copernic desktop search program, 21.12

“Coping with Email,” 12.9-10

copyediting

offshoring of, 12.6-7

copyright law

work for hire contracts, 1.12-14

See also intellectual property rights

Corazzon, Paul

“What Is Ontology?” webpage, 5.11

cost analysis of business equipment, 15.3

cost of flawed search results studies, 14.11; 16.11

countries hosting offshore operations, 12.2, 3, 6-7; 20.12; 23.12

Crawford, Walt

on ebooks, 22.12

“Creating a Controlled Vocabulary” article (Fast, Leise, and Steckel), 5.12

credit reports on new clients, 4.15

Creel, Ramona

“20 Ways to Say 'No'” list, 22.10

“Criminal Editing,” 13.13

Críticas (Spanish publishing market publication), 4.7

cross-references

general cross-references, 2.7

See also, see also references; see references

see under and see also under references, 3.6

from subheadings, 2.7-8; 3.5-6

target main heading–subheading separator, 7.3

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 22.11

cumulative indexes, 1.4

CUP (Columbia University Press)

indexing guidelines for authors, 11.17

CWA (Communications Workers Union)

on British firms outsourcing to India, 12.4

Czerwinski, Mary, 22.11


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

D

D&B credit reports on new clients, 4.15

Dabney, Daniel

on automatic classification, 9.11

Darcy, M.

on librarians as skilled humans (letter), 22.7

“Dashed Hopes” (1985), 16.12

“Data Disasters, Top Ten,” 10.17

data mining. See text mining

data visualization. See visual display of information (information mapping)

database indexing jobs offshoring, 12.1

database of indexing rates. See indexing rate database (i-TORQUE subscriber rates)

date website, 9.11

de Graaf, John

on work time and the sense of time poverty, 21.15

deadlines

indexers and, 16.13, 14

death clauses in indexing contracts, 23.8

“A Decade of DTDs and SGML in Scholarly Publishing: What Have We Learned?” paper (Rosenblum and Golfman), 8.11

dedicated indexing software. See indexing software (dedicated)

DeGennaro, Barbara, 20.1

interview (on children's book indexes), 20.1-5

Degree Confluence Project, 17.9

deliverables section (in contracts), 5.13-14

for large projects, 5.15

Department of Labor. See Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

depth of indexing

charging according to, 23.3

indexing less in depth without sacrificing quality, 8.6-7

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

desktop search programs, 21.12

Despair.com products, 10.10

Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer (DNI)

organization and website, 17.9

“Developing and Creatively Leveraging Hierarchical Metadata and Taxonomy” article (Ricci), 17.10

developing nations

countries involved in offshoring, 12.2, 3, 6-7; 20.12; 23.12

and technology, 20.12

See also India

DEXter plug-in (for Microsoft Word), 20.9

dictionaries

Legal Dictionary (Nolo.com), 2.16

medical dictionaries, 10.11

See also encyclopedias; glossaries; thesauri

“Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom” article (Guernsey), 10.10

digital libraries

building (presentation), 6.15

digital publishing guide, 3.8

digitizing (scanning) of books

at Amazon, 7.14-15; 9.13; 10.12, 13

CDL eScholarship Editions, 11.13

Google's project, 21.11

at Stanford University Press, 13.13

“Digitizing Books,” 13.13

“Dishonorable Mentions,” 16.16

dissociative fugue, 21.14

distractions, 22.11

minimizing, 17.15; 22.11

DNI (Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer)

organization and website, 17.9

document retrieval

STAIRS system, 16.12

Dornfest, Rael

Google Hacks, 5.12

download times at various connection speeds, 5.7

Drive Image (Powerquest), 2.9-10

DTDs (Document Type Definitions)

digital publishing resource, 3.8

in scholarly publishing (paper), 8.11

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (ISO 15836:2003), 5.2

Duden (German style guide), 6.7-8


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E

Earth satellite images websites (NASA), 5.11; 22.10

Ebadi, Shirin

suit against the Treasury Department OFAC, 20.10

“eBook Hype,” 22.12

ebook indexes, 8.12; 10.4; 17.12-13

creating, 11.8

“Ebook Operation Folds,” 6.14

ebooks

in 2003, 10.1-4

business operation closures, 6.14; 9.12

CDL eScholarship Editions, 11.13

Chizen on, 9.12

community mailing list, 11.8

formats and format standards, 8.12; 10.2; 11.8

hype, 3.1; 22.12

index vs. full-text search usability study, 17.12-13

indexes for, 8.12; 10.4; 11.8; 17.12-13

indexing, 11.8

market for, 9.12; 10.1-2; 22.12

Microsoft campaign, 3.1; 10.1

narrative vs. non-narrative books as, 11.8

OEBPS (Open eBook Publication Structure), 3.8; 8.12

vs. printed books, 3.1-3; 10.1-2

reading devices, 10.2; 11.8

reading experiences, 10.3-4

resources on, 11.8

rights case, 2.16

sales, 9.12; 10.2; 22.12

unresolved issues, 22.12

usage of (articles), 18.12

“eBooks in, 2003”; 10.1-4

Eco, Umberto

future of books speech, 11.15

economics books

U.S. production trends, 6.2-5; 16.2-6

Edgar website (SEC)

checking out new clients on, 4.14

editing

U.S. sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

editing indexes

structural changes, 19.2

The Editorium, 20.9

editors (professionals)

employment estimates, 1.2

salaries, 7.12

U.S. sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

wage estimates, 1.2; 2.1

editors (text editors), 10.9

education books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-5; 16.2-5

eFax, 1.6

Egyptology

Theban Mapping Project, 3.8

electronic indexes

ebook indexes, 8.12; 10.4; 11.8; 17.12-13

locator-linking issue, 17.12

See also website indexing

Elsevier Science

offshore contract with SPI, 14.4

email

alert systems, 22.11

filtering, 12.9-10

spam resource, 19.14

vacation policy, 21.15

email aliases, 12.8

newsgroup use, 15.10

embargoes (U.S.)

sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on the publishing industry, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

embedded indexing, 19.1-7

benefits, 18.6; 19.5

Duden on, 6.7

for ebooks, 10.4; 17.12-13

in FrameMaker, 12.11; 17.13; 18.3-4; 20.9

in InDesign, 14.9; 17.13

need for, 19.5-6

page rates for, 18.5-6; 20.8

in Quark, 17.12, 13

resource on, 19.7

theory, 19.1

in Word, 17.13; 18.3-4, 5; 19.2, 6-7; 20.9

Wright workshop announcement, 19.8

in XML, 6.7

See also embedded indexing software; website indexing

embedded indexing software, 19.1, 2

FrameMaker, 12.11; 17.13; 18.3-4; 20.9

HTML-Indexer program, 11.8; 16.8

InDesign, 14.9; 17.13

learning to use, 19.3

Mulvany on, 19.1

plug-ins for FrameMaker and Word, 20.9

reluctance to change from dedicated indexing software to, 19.3, 5-6

Word, 17.13; 18.3-4, 5; 19.2, 6-7; 20.9

“Embedded Indexing: Users Speak Out” paper (Mulvany), 19.1

embedded operating systems in appliances and cars, 2.11

emDEX plug-in (for FrameMaker), 20.9

“Emergency Poster–Virus” flowchart (Calvert), 19.14

employment

estimates (BLS), 1.1-2

writing and professional employment, 21.13

See also indexing jobs (projects)

encyclopedia indexes

subject entries and boldfaced locators in, 19.10

encyclopedias

Britannica's return to printing on paper, 4.11

Cook's Thesaurus, 8.10

Harry Potter Encyclopedia of Spells, 7.13

index entries and locators, 19.10

Legal Encyclopedia (Nolo.com), 2.16

See also dictionaries

engineers

cooking website for, 19.13

entries. See index entries

“Errata,” 8.17

errors-and-omissions insurance

in taxonomy design contracts, 5.4

errors in the text

reporting, 9.8

eScholarship Editions (CDL), 11.13

estimating indexing time, 20.14; 21.8, 9

ethics (professional ethics), 8.3; 9.2

Europe

German indexes, 6.7-8

German Network of Indexers (DNI), 17.9

indexing and indexes on the Continent (article), 6.8

“An Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness for a Full-Text Document-Retrieval System” article (Blair and Maron), 16.12

executive salaries, 7.12

extraterrestrial intelligence search project, 7.11

Extreme Markup Languages conference, 8.11


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

F

Faceted Classification email list, 5.4

Facing the Text: An Excerpt,” 11.1-7

Factiva

push product, 2.6

WebFountain project test, 12.12

Factiva Alerts web link, 2.6

Fallows, James

on overwhelm as a modern condition, 16.14

Fassbender, Jochen, 5.12

DNI organization, 17.9

on Duden (German style guide) (letter), 6.7-8

Fast, Karl

“Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus” article, 12.11

“Creating a Controlled Vocabulary” article, 5.12

“Synonym Rings and Authority Files” article, 8.12

“What Is a Controlled Vocabulary?” article, 3.10; 4.3

favicons (browser logos), 16.7

fax accounts

eFax, 1.6

FBI (Justice Dept.)

Freedom to Read Protection Act and, 4.15

Patriot Act and, 3.11, 12; 9.6

Fedora (Red Hat Linux), 18.9

Feldman, Susan

“The High Cost of Not Finding Information” study, 14.11

“Why Categorize?” article, 19.14

Feria Internacional de Libros (FIL), 2.12

Fetters, Linda

on see under and see also under references, 3.6

FIL (Feria Internacional de Libros), 2.12

File Download Time Calculator, 5.7

files

temporary file removal software, 3.7

See also authority files; PDF files

filing rules. See sorting rules (alphabetizing/filing rules)

filing systems

reorganizing, 17.15

storage system (Microsoft), 13.14

tickler file system, 20.14

filtering email

with MailWasher, 12.9-10

findability, 15.12

article on (Morville), 3.10

website on (Morville), 15.12

finding information

findability article and website, 3.10; 15.12

forthcoming book titles on Amazon, 8.9

“The High Cost of Not Finding Information” study, 14.11

personal information management, 13.14

See also full-text searches; information retrieval; Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com); Web searches

“Finding Stuff,” 13.14

Firefox (browser), 13.12; 20.11

firewalls

hardware (routers), 15.4-5

software, 1.7-8; 15.4, 5

Fisher, Barbara

on Amazon's Search Inside the Book, 11.15

Fishman, Stephen

on work for hire contracts in California, 1.13-14

flow (cognitive engagement), 22.11

flowering plant taxonomy changes (article), 4.11

For Fun links

Astronomy Picture of the Day, 1.9

“Cooking for Engineers,” 19.13

Degree Confluence Project, 17.9

Despair.com products, 10.10

Earth satellite images websites (NASA), 5.11; 22.10

embedded operating systems in appliances and cars, 2.11

extraterrestrial intelligence search project, 7.11

geocaching, 4.11

GooCookin (Google hack), 5.12

Google holiday logos, 13.13

holiday shopping websites, 20.10

How Everyday Things Are Made, 8.10

Internet Time, 9.11

museum websites, 18.11

PBase (photo sharing/hosting) website, 23.9

Pixar animation shorts, 11.13

Places Online website, 12.11

Punch (cartoons), 6.13

Signmaker Central, 14.8

Snood (game), 21.10

Specious Report on Google Print (article), 13.13

Strindberg's Inferno multimedia interpretation, 16.10

Theban Mapping Project, 3.8

typewriter information website, 15.11

wastebasket toss game, 12.11

World Wind website (NASA), 22.10

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Freedom to Read Protection Act and, 4.15

foreign-owned publishers, 20.13; 23.13

“Foreign Printing” article (Mallardi), 20.12-13

foreign words in italics in index entries, 23.7

forthcoming book titles

finding on Amazon, 8.9

“A Fountain of Knowledge” article (Cass), 12.12

FrameMaker

embedded indexing in, 12.11; 17.13; 18.3-4

embedded indexing plug-ins, 20.9

Freedom to Read Protection Act, 4.15; 8.13, 15

Fremontia article on flowering plant taxonomy changes, 4.11

full-text searches

vs. indexes, 10.14, 15; 17.12-13

in Search Inside the Book, 10.12-13, 14

STAIRS document-retrieval system, 16.12


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

G

games. See computer games

Garshol, Lars Marius

“Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!” paper, 17.10

Gassie, Lillian Woon

online presentations, 6.15

gateways (routers), 15.4-5

gay and lesbian books

U.S. production trends, 18.7

geek shopping websites, 20.10

Gemstar ebook operation demise, 6.14

general cross-references, 2.7

generators

and UPSs, 10.5

genus-species relationships

in classified entries, 4.8-9; 5.5-6

geocaching website, 4.11

geographic names

geographic names

AAG Places Online website, 12.11

African language materials, 9.13

thesaurus, 6.13

German indexes, 6.7-8

German Network of Indexers (DNI)

organization and website, 17.9

German style guide (Duden), 6.7-8

“Get Caught Reading,” 8.13-15

Get Caught Reading campaign, 8.13, 15

getting started in indexing, 22.8

medical indexing, 23.4-5

“Getting There with Maps,” 22.11

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Allen), 16.14; 17.14; 20.14

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), 6.13

Gibson Research ShieldsUP! program, 19.14

glossaries

controlled vocabulary terms, 12.11

information retrieval terms, 2.11

Internet and Web terms, 2.11; 5.12

metadata terms, 6.14

search engine terms, 2.11

software engineering terms, 18.12

Spanish Internet Glossary, 5.12

See also dictionaries; encyclopedias; thesauri

The Glossary of Information Retrieval, 2.11

Glossary of Internet and Web Jargon, 2.11

Glossary of Metadata Terms (Lombardi), 6.14

“Glosso-Thesaurus,” 12.11

GNOME desktop (Linux), 18.9, 10ph

God's Politics (Wallis), 22.4, 5

Golfman, Irina

“A Decade of DTDs and SGML in Scholarly Publishing: What Have We Learned?” paper, 8.11

GooCookin (Google hack), 5.12

Goodwin, Evan

on Ibsen, 16.10

Google

and Applied Semantics, 5.11

book-information-in-search projects, 11.14-15

browser (visualizer), 2.13; 4.12

checking out new clients on, 4.14

desktop search program, 21.12

digitizing project, 21.11

holiday logos, 13.13

map to address via phone number service, 12.8

mapping website, 22.11

and metatags, 6.12

name verification on, 1.9

news website, 1.11

out-of-this-world job description, 14.10

PageRank tool, 14.8

scholarly literature search engine, 21.11-12

search engine relationship (usage) chart, 8.12

torquing, 15.14

WorldCat database access project, 11.14

Google Groups (newsgroups connection), 15.10

Google hack website, 5.12; 6.13

Google Hacks (Calishain and Dornfest), 5.12

“Google Jumps In,” 11.14-15

Google mania

and librarians, 21.10; 22.7

Google Maps, 22.11

“Google Me, Google You,” 21.10

Google News website, 1.11

Google Print project, 11.14-15

Specious Report on (article), 13.13

Google Scholar (search engine), 21.11-12

GoogleBrowser (TouchGraph), 2.13

“Got the Time?,” 9.9-10

“Gotta Love It!,” 6.15

Graaf. See de Graaf, John

Grabois, Andrew

on U.S. book production in 2002, 6.1-2

on U.S. book production in 2003, 16.1

Grant, Rickford

Linux for Non-Geeks, 18.9; 19.11

Graph Based Interfaces, 2.13

See also visualizers (of Web search results)

Gravitz, Ina

on hugs for librarians (letter), 22.7

“The Great Library of Amazonia” article (Wolf), 10.13

Green, Adolph, 5.17

Green, Roger, 23.11

greenwichmeantime.com, 9.10

greeting cards

Renaissance Library Collection website, 20.10

Grimes, Richard

file storage system article, 13.14

Grokker (visualizer), 4.5, 12; 6.11-12

version 2, 11.11-12

GTD. See Getting Things Done

GTD system, 17.14

Guadalajara Book Fair, 2.12

Guernsey, Lisa

“Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom” article, 10.10

Guide for Authors (CUP)

indexing guidelines, 11.17

Guide for Publishers (NISO)

Metadata Demystified, 8.10

Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numbers and Other Symbols (NISO TR03)

hyphen sort, 18.7

review article (Mulvany), 8.8

symbol sort options, 8.8

Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies (NISO Z39.19-200x), 23.9

Gurudutt. See Kamath, Gurudutt

Gururaj, B. S., 13.1

documentation work, 13.1, 4

interview, 13.1-8


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

H

Habañero Networks security resource, 19.14

“Hacking Google,” 5.12

Hafner, Katie

on distractions (article), 22.11

“Happy Holidays,” 20.16

hard drive backup systems, 2.9-10; 15.5-6

hardware auditing tool (for PCs), 16.9

Harry Potter Lexicon, 7.13

Harvard University library

Google's digitizing project, 21.11

hats, tinfoil, 21.10; 22.7ph

Haynes, Mir G.

“Information Architecture: You Do It, You Just Don't Know It” article, 5.12

health-related books

public library buying trend, 22.2

U.S. production trends, 16.5-6; 22.2-3

See also medical books

Hearst, Marti

“What is Text Mining?” article, 10.10

Henderson, Earvin

“Index vs. Full-text search” usability study, 17.12-13

Hendler, James

“The Semantic Web” article, 3.9

Henige, David

on indexing (JSP article), 3.4

Hensher, Philip

on indexes as expressive, 16.16

Hepburn, Katherine

Kate Remembered (Berg), 7.13

“The High Cost of Not Finding Information” study (Feldman), 14.11

“High Hopes” (1961), 16.11

history books

U.S. production trends, 6.2-5; 16.2-6

holiday logos (from Google), 13.13

holiday shopping websites, 20.10

Holt, Pat

on Amazon's Search Inside the Book, 11.15

on the Freedom to Read Protection Act, 4.15

“Holy Macros,” 22.9

home economics books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-5

Hood, Al

“Index vs. Full-text search” usability study, 17.12-13

hourly earnings of indexers, 2.1-5, 4t

getting into The Zone, 2.4-5

quality work at low rates, 8.6-7

working in The Zone at low rates, 2.4t; 8.6-7; 10.7

How Everyday Things Are Made website, 8.10

how-to books

public library circulation, 22.2

“How to Make Money Indexing Books,” 2.1-5

“How to Make Money Reading Books,” 1.1-3

“How Vulnerable is My Computer?” article (Calvert), 19.14

“Hpertext Revisited,” 14.12

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

digital publishing resource, 3.8

HTML-Indexer program

website indexing with, 11.8; 16.8

hyphens

sort options, 18.7


| Numbers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

 

I

“I Love You, Madame Librarian” article (Vonnegut), 18.11

i-TORQUE

Back Page collection suggestion (letter), 22.7

canceling subscriptions, 4.7

index request letter, 3.4

PDF file printing, 5.9; 11.10

PDF reader software, 5.9; 6.15

publishing schedule change, 21.1

Q & A columnist introductions, 11.10; 12.13; 15.14

renewing subscriptions, 4.7

Subscribers Links webpage, 15.14

See also indexing rate database (i-TORQUE subscriber rates)

IA Summit 2004, 14.10

IAwiki website, 5.4

“IBM's WebFountain,” 12.12

Ibsen, Henrik

on Strindberg, 16.10

ICD-10 (international disease classification system), 4.8

IconForge program, 16.7

icons

favicons (browser logos), 16.7

ideal indexer (CMS-15 image), 7.2-3

identity theft

resource on, 19.14

iDrive feature (BMW 745i), 2.11

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

offshore contract with SPI, 14.4

Software Engineering Terms glossary, 18.12

Treasury Department OFAC embargo advisories to, 13.13

imports of books and calendars, 20.13

inclusive page number abbreviations, 7.1, 9

income. See indexing rates (pay rates); salaries; wages

inconsistent wordings

reflecting the text, 19.9-10

indented indexes

indention of see also references under main headings, 11.9

sub-subheading run-in format, 7.4, 10

Independent Book Publishers Association (PMA), 23.13

independent contractors

tax withholding for (proposal), 14.13-14

InDesign (Adobe)

embedded indexing in, 14.9; 17.13

“Index” (poem) (Violi)

author comments on, 19.16

Index (VA), 4.17ph

Index (WA), 3.14-15ph

index cards technology, 14.12

transition to indexing software from, 19.3-5

index entries

acronym spellouts, 1.5

bold type in, 23.7

charging by the entry, 23.3

classified entries, 4.8-9; 5.5-6; 6.9-10

in encyclopedia indexes, 19.10

italic type in, 23.7

parallel topics, 15.8-9

passing mentions, 7.7-8

shortening titles, 21.6

wording inconsistencies, 19.9-10

See also cross-references; locators (reference locators) (page numbers); personal names; sub-subheadings; subheadings

index length

projecting, 21.9

index quality

AACR2 index excellence, 17.1

bad indexes (poor quality) problem, 9.2; 10.15; 16.12

educational needs, 9.2-3

full-text search checks on, 10.15

indexing rates and, 8.5

turnaround times and, 8.3; 9.1

working in The Zone at low rates without sacrificing, 8.6-7

workshops on, 9.3

“Index vs. Full-text search” usability study (Barnum, Henderson, Hood, Jordan), 17.12-13

indexable pages

contract agreements on additional deliverables, 5.13-15

See also text (in indexable documents)

The Indexer

Bell articles (web links), 3.9

Henige's treatment of, 3.4

Vonnegut letter on indexers, 18.11

“Indexer” license plates, 14.16ph

“Indexer” sticker, 6.17

indexers

ASI's focus on new vs. established indexers, 9.5

burnout in, 16.13, 14

certification issue, 9.3

and classification system/taxonomy design, 5.2; 6.15

and deadlines, 16.13, 14

Duden on, 6.7

Henige's treatment of, 3.4

hiring practice at Microsoft Learning, 18.2

ideal indexer (CMS-15 image), 7.2-3

in Index (VA), 4.17ph

vs. information architects, 17.10

misperception of in the publishing world, 9.4, 5

office assistants (pets), 21.17ph; 22.15ph

“Offices of Two Indexers,” 15.15ph; 17.17ph

Open eBook Forum as without, 8.12

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 1.16-17; 7.17-18

“Taxes & Indexers,” 14.13-14

Vonnegut on, 18.11

websites for, 12.8; 14.8; 15.14

See also indexing businesses; indexing jobs (projects); indexing profession; indexing rates (pay rates); interviews; job markets (for indexers); societies of indexers

“Indexers Find Index in Rural Virginia,” 4.17ph

“Indexer's Nightmare,” 9.17

“Indexers' Office Assistants,” 21.17ph; 22.15ph

Indexers' Rest Home

location, 3.15

popular posters, 2.18

popular video, 23.15

“Indexers Reveal Themselves” (profile data), 1.16-17; 7.18

indexes

AACR2 index, 17.1, 2-5

in Amazon's Look Inside the Book, 7.14, 15

bad indexes (poor quality) problem, 9.2; 10.15; 16.12

as book content search tools (article), 7.15

Child on, 18.15

children's book indexes, 20.1-5

CMS-15 index, 7.5-6

“on the Continent” (article), 6.8

cumulative indexes, 1.4

ebook indexes, 8.12; 10.4; 11.8; 17.12-13

editing, 19.2

encyclopedia indexes, 19.10

as expressive (Hensher), 16.16

vs. full-text searches, 10.14, 15; 17.12-13

German indexes, 6.7-8

Harry Potter Universe index, 7.13

as hypertext, 14.12

on looking oneself up in, 5.17

missing indexes, 7.13; 17.11; 21.14; 22.4-5

multi-volume indexes, 1.4

name indexes (author indexes), 15.9

single-source indexes, 4.2

visual representations of, 4.12

See also cookbook indexes; electronic indexes; scientific name indexes; specific index-related topics

“Indexicon: The Only Fully Automatic Indexer: A Review” article (Mulvany and Milstead), 1.11

indexing

classification systems for (Weinberg paper), 3.10

“on the Continent” (article), 6.8

ebooks, 11.8

experience of (Mulvany), 3.3

getting started in, 22.8; 23.4-5

Henige's article on (in JSP), 3.4

“How to Make Money Indexing Books,” 2.1-5

in India, 13.3, 5-6

information science resource, 10.11

journal indexing, 8.2

misperception of in the publishing world, 9.4, 5

text mining as like, 10.10

writing on (by indexers), 9.3

See also automatic indexing; embedded indexing; medical indexing; single-source indexing; specific indexing-related topics; website indexing

indexing agreements. See contracts

Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice (Lancaster), 10.11

“Indexing and Access for Digital Libraries and the Internet” article (Bates), 2.6

indexing businesses

contact access options, 12.8

“Keeping Your Indexing Business Onshore,” 14.1-5

office assistants (pets), 21.17ph; 22.15ph

outsourceability attributes, 14.1-3, 5

in rural areas, 23.5-6

“Taxes & Indexers,” 14.13-14

See also business equipment; indexing jobs (projects); indexing profession; offices; Taking Care of Business & Yourself column

indexing conferences

2005 schedule, 22.12

indexing courses

UC Berkeley Extension course, 21.5-6

UC Berkeley Extension Online course, 21.5

“Indexing FrameMaker Documents” paper (Rao), 12.11

indexing guidelines. See indexing style guides

indexing jobs (projects)

landing that first job, 22.8

last minute jobs, 23.8

medical indexing project parameters, 23.3

outsourceability, 14.3-4, 5; 20.13

outsourcing (offshoring) of, 21.4; 23.4

outsourcing (offshoring) of database indexing jobs, 12.1

refusing, 9.1-2

sickness and, 23.8

See also contracts; job markets (for indexers); marketing (for indexing jobs)

indexing profession

ASI's promotional failure, 9.4

ASI's promotional responsibility, 9.5

certification issue, 9.3

challenges to, 9.4

changes in, 8.3; 9.4

indexing rate database (i-TORQUE subscriber rates), 10.8

instructions for contributing to, 22.6; 23.6

job market impacts (letters), 20.6-8; 21.2-4

status request (letter), 17.6

indexing rates (pay rates)

charging by the entry, 23.3

for embedded indexing, 18.5-6; 20.8

hourly earnings, 2.1-5, 4t

and index quality, 8.5

negotiating, 8.5; 9.2

as not keeping pace, 8.4; 10.7; 20.8; 21.3-4

offshoring and, 14.6

page rates, 8.4-7

sharing information about, 10.7-8

specialty area rates, 8.4

tiered rates, 8.5

wage estimates, 1.2-3; 2.1-2

See also indexing rate database (i-TORQUE subscriber rates); low pay rates

indexing societies. See societies of indexers

indexing software (dedicated)

CMS-15 compatibility, 7.9-10

HTML-Indexer program, 11.8; 16.8

Macrex macros presentation, 22.9

reluctance to change to embedded indexing software from, 19.3, 5-6

transition from index cards technology to, 19.3-5

See also embedded indexing software

indexing style guides

Duden (German style guide), 6.7-8

Guide for Authors (CUP), 11.17

See also Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed. (CMS-15)

indexing systems (for classification)

Weinberg on, 3.10

India

books in, 13.1-4

Builder.com's article writing offshoring to, 14.11

companies outsourcing to, 12.3-4

documentation software used in, 13.5

indexing in, 13.3, 5-6

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.1-5, 13; 13.7; 14.11; 20.12

offshoring (BPO) in the U.S. from (letter), 17.6

publishing industry in, 13.1-8

technical writing in, 13.6-8

“India Report: Books, Publishing, Technical Writing, & Indexing,” 13.1-8

i-TORQUE readers on (letters), 14.6

“The Inevitable Crash,” 2.9-10

Inferno (Strindberg)

multimedia interpretation, 16.10

information anxiety

resource on, 15.12

See also anxiety about undone tasks condition

information architects, 3.10

vs. indexers, 17.10

information architecture, 17.10

IA Summit 2004, 14.10

Otlet on organizing information, 14.12

resources on, 3.10; 5.4, 12; 6.15; 13.8; 15.12; 17.10

See also classification systems/schemes; taxonomies; thesauri

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (Rosenfeld and Morville), 5.4

“Information Architecture: You Do It, You Just Don't Know It” article (Haynes), 5.12

information management. See managing information

information mapping. See visual display of information (information mapping)

Information Research electronic journal, 7.13

information retrieval

Bates on, 1.10-11; 2.6

breakthroughs in, 22.10

companies involved in (pre-1990s), 1.10

findability article and website, 3.10; 15.12

glossaries of terms related to, 2.11

push technology, 1.10; 2.6

resources on, 3.9; 5.11; 7.13; 10.11; 15.12; 22.10

Semantic Web project, 3.9; 13.14; 15.12

taxonomy/classification and, 9.11

and the Web, 1.10-11; 7.13

See also automatic classification/categorization; finding information; full-text searches; search engines; Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com); visual display of information (information mapping); W

information science

information science

resources on, 3.9; 5.11; 7.13; 10.11; 15.12

See also information architecture; information retrieval

“Information Storage and Retrieval” article (Lipetz), 22.10

infra

use of, 3.5-6

ink cartridges, 15.4

inkjet printers

all-in-one products, 15.2-3

printing costs, 5.8

InMagic (automatic categorization program), 19.14

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. See IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

insurance

in taxonomy design contracts, 5.4

integrity, personal, 9.2

intellectual property rights

Amazon's book-scanning operation and, 7.15; 9.13; 10.12, 13

assignment of rights contracts, 1.14

e-book rights case, 2.16

“Internationalized Back-of-the-Book Indexes for XSL Formatting Objects” paper (Kimber and Reynolds), 8.11

Internet

glossaries of terms related to, 2.11; 5.12

information analysis project (IBM), 12.12

Spanish glossary, 5.12

usefulness vs. book usefulness, 3.2

Internet security. See computer security

“Internet Security Resource,” 19.14

Internet Time, 9.11

interviews

Bell (web link), 3.9

DeGennaro, 20.1-5

Gururaj (B. S.) and Gurudutt Kamath, 13.1-8

Perlman, 8.1-7; 9.1-5

Pitkoff, 23.1-6

Rhoades, 15.1-7

Wall, 18.1-6; 19.6-7

Wright, 4.1-5; 5.1-4

invoices, 9.14-15

as PDFs, 5.10

purchase order numbers for, 4.13-14

sample invoice, 9.15

Sarbanes-Oxley impacts, 22.13

Timekeep for Windows feature, 21.7, 9

“Invoices“, 9.14-15

InXight (graph-based interface), 2.13

IR. See information retrieval

Iranian author's suit against the Treasury Department OFAC, 20.10

Ireland

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.3

IRS

2003 Annual Report to Congress, 14.13-14

IRS Form W-9, 4.13

ISO 15836:2003 (Dublin Core Metadata Element Set), 5.2

Israel

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.3

“Issues in Cataloging Non-Western Materials: Special Problems with African Language Materials” website (Bertelsen), 9.13

IT jobs

offshoring of, 12.3-7, 13; 13.7; 14.11

italic type in indexes, 23.7

IXgen utility (for FrameMaker), 20.9


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J

Jasco, Peter

Polysearch (search engine), 21.12

Java-enabled browsers, 13.12

Jermey, Jon

on ebooks (letter), 11.8

Website Indexing: Enhancing Access to Information within Websites, 2nd Ed., 16.10; 17.6; 21.13

job markets (for indexers), 20.7

alternatives beyond print publishing (article), 9.12

bottom-feeder market, 20.7-8

changes in work sources, 8.3

identifying your market, 22.8

indexing rate database impacts on (letters), 20.6-8; 21.2-4

large publishers (big six), 23.13

niches (segments) outside mainstream publishing, 6.6

September 11 aftermath, 6.1-2

small and midsize publishers market, 23.13

Spanish indexing market, 4.6-7; 8.2; 22.5

U.S. book category production trends, 6.2-5; 16.2-6; 18.7; 22.2-5

See also marketing (for indexing jobs)

jobs in indexing. See indexing jobs (projects)

John Paul II, Pope

Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way, 22.4

John Wiley (publisher), 21.4; 22.13

John's Hopkins University librarians, 21.10

Johnson, Steven

“The Best Search Idea Since Google” article, 10.12

Jones, William

personal information management article, 13.14

Jordan, Rodney

“Index vs. Full-text search” usability study, 17.12-13

journal indexing, 8.2

Journal of Scholarly Publishing (JSP)

indexing article (Henige), 3.4

journals

high cost of academic and research journals, 14.4-5

indexing of, 8.2

indexing of (article) (Bell), 3.9

public resource for scientific and medical literature, 14.5

publishing industry offshoring focus on, 12.7; 14.4

Joy of Cooking

classified index entries, 6.9-10

Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home (Child and Pépin)

index format, 1.4


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K

Kamath, Gurudutt, 13.1

documentation work, 13.1, 4-5

interview, 13.1-8

Kartoo (visualizer) website, 4.12

Kate Remembered (Berg), 7.13

“Keeper Finders” article (Boutin), 21.12

Keeping Found Things Found project, 13.14

“Keeping Your Indexing Business Onshore,” 14.1-5

Keller, Michael

on digitizing of books at Stanford University Press, 13.13

Kennedy, Shirl

on Google Scholar, 21.11-12

Kimber, W. Eliot

“Internationalized Back-of-the-Book Indexes for XSL Formatting Objects” paper, 8.11

Kirkpatrick, David D.

Amazon's book-scanning plan story, 7.14-15

KLEZ virus, 1.8

Knight, G. Norman

on long strings of locators, 7.7

Kremer, John

Top 101 Independent Book Publishers list, 23.13


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L

Labor, Department of. See Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

LaHaye, Tim

Left Behind series sales, 22.4

Lancaster, F. W.

Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, 10.11

landing that first indexing job, 22.8

large projects

contracts for, 5.14-15

laser printers

printing costs, 5.7-8

Laserwords (Chennai, India)

UK and USA customers, 12.5

Lassila, Ora

“The Semantic Web” article, 3.9

last minute indexing jobs, 23.8

Lathrop, Lori

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 7.18

Latin America

offshoring (BPO) in, 20.12

law

copyright law work for hire contracts, 1.12-14

“Taxonomies Mandated by Law,” 12.12

See also intellectual property rights; Legal Beagle column

law library materials

classification scheme (Moys website), 20.11

See also lawbooks

lawbooks

law library spending cuts, 21.13

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-6

See also law library materials

“Lawbooks and Libraries,” 21.13

lawsuits against the Treasury Department OFAC, 19.12; 20.10

Lazarus, David

on CCH Inc.'s tax return preparation offshoring (article), 12.4

LCSH (Library of Congress Headings), 4.8

“Learning to Read,” 23.12

Left Behind series (LaHaye)

sales, 22.4

Legal Beagle column

change-in-project-scope agreements, 5.13-15

checking out new clients, 4.13-15

e-book rights case, 2.16

invoices, 9.14-15

Patriot Act and opposition to, 3.11-12; 8.13-15

publishers' and authors' suit against the Treasury Department OFAC, 19.12

“Taxes & Indexers,” 14.13-14

work for hire contracts, 1.12-14

work quality clauses, 2.14-16

See also contracts

Legal Dictionary (Nolo.com), 2.16

Legal Encyclopedia (Nolo.com), 2.16

legal publishing industry

offshoring in, 12.1

See also lawbooks

legal rights. See intellectual property rights

Leise, Fred

“Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus” article, 12.11

“Creating a Controlled Vocabulary” article, 5.12

“Synonym Rings and Authority Files” article, 8.12

“What Is a Controlled Vocabulary?” article, 3.10; 4.3

length of index

projecting, 21.9

Leno, Jay

on giving our Constitution to Iraq, 9.6

“Let's Get Organized,” 17.7-8

letter-by-letter sorts

CMS-15 rules, 7.4-5, 9; 18.7

hyphens, 18.7

numerals, 18.8

Letters

Back Page collection suggestion (Jonathan S.), 22.7

on browser logos (favicons) (James W.), 16.7

on classified entries (Browne, Stauber), 5.5-6

on Duden (German style guide) (Fassbender), 6.7-8

on ebooks (Jermey), 11.8

on generators (Milstead), 10.5

on Henige's JSP article on indexing (Veverka), 3.4

i-TORQUE index request (Linzer), 3.4

on indexing rate database job market impacts (Shawvan, anonymous), 20.6-8; 21.2-4

indexing rate database status request (anonymous), 17.6

on “India Report” (snippets), 14.6

on librarians and Google mania (Gravitz and Darcy), 22.7

on outsourcing (offshoring) (snippets), 14.6

on outsourcing in the U.S. from India (Mertes), 17.6

on the Patriot Act (anonymous), 9.6

on power outages (Milstead, Rhoades), 10.5-6

on Publishers Weekly (Russell), 19.8

on push technology (Browne), 2.6

on the Spanish indexing market (Perlman), 4.6-7

on UPSs (Rhoades), 10.5-6

Website Indexing enquiry, purchasing, and price information (Browne and Jermey), 17.6

Levy, David

on multitasking and cognitive overload, 21.14

Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in a Digital Age, 21.14

Leximation, Inc., 20.9

librarians

on Amazon's Search Inside the Book, 11.15

and Google mania, 21.10; 22.7

“I Love You, Madame Librarian” article (Vonnegut), 18.11

libraries

digital library–building resource, 6.15

full-text searches throughout, 10.12-13

Google's digitizing project, 21.11

law library book spending cuts, 21.13

law library materials classification scheme (Moys website), 20.11

listing service for stockings of specific books, 11.14

Patriot Act and, 3.11-12; 4.15; 9.6

See also public libraries (in the U.S.)

Library Journal

public library book buying survey (for 2004), 22.1

Library of Congress Headings (LCSH), 4.8

license plates (“Indexer”), 14.16ph

licenses

Open Publication License, 3.2

“Life Interrupted: Plugged into It All We're Stressed to Distraction” article, 21.14

Lindstrom, Martin

on website indexing, 2.12

linking of locators in electronic indexes issue, 17.12

Linux (operating system), 18.9-10

office suite, 18.9; 19.11

resources on, 18.9, 10

word processor, 19.11

Linux for Non-Geeks (Grant), 18.9; 19.11

Linzer, Naomi

i-TORQUE index request (letter), 3.4

Lipetz, Ben Ami

“Information Storage and Retrieval” article, 22.10

LIT format (Microsoft Reader Format), 11.8

littered offices. See cluttered offices (littered offices)

locators (reference locators) (page numbers)

after main headings modified by subheadings, 7.7

boldfaced locators in encyclopedia indexes, 19.10

color formats, 1.4

inclusive page number abbreviations, 7.1, 9

linking issue in electronic indexes, 17.12

long strings, 7.7-8

Logik (terminology-gathering software), 4.5, 10

Logo Generator, 14.8

logos

browser favicons, 16.7

creation software, 14.8

Lohr, Steve

Open Publication License story, 3.2

Lombardi, Victor

Glossary of Metadata Terms, 6.14

IA Summit 2004 handout, 14.10

long strings of locators, 7.7-8

Look Inside the Book (Amazon.com), 7.14, 15; 10.14

See also Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com)

low pay rates, 8.4; 10.7; 20.8; 21.3-4

charges by new and non-self-supporting indexers problem, 20.6, 8

for embedded indexing, 20.8

quality work at, 8.6-7

working in The Zone at, 2.4t; 8.6-7; 10.7

See also indexing rates (pay rates)


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M

machine learning. See automatic classification/categorization

Machine Translation project (Microsoft), 14.11

Macrex macros presentation, 22.9

macros

Macrex macros presentation, 22.9

QuicKeys program, 20.9

Maddocks, Jane

in Index (VA), 4.17ph

MailWasher (Bolton), 12.9-10

“Making Cents of Copy and Print Management” article (Monk), 5.8

Malaysia

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.2, 3

Mallardi, Vincent

“Foreign Printing” article, 20.12-13

managing information

cleaning up cluttered offices, 17.14-15

clearing short-term memory space, 17.14

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

personal information management, 13.14

See also filing systems; PDAs (personal digital assistants)

manufacturing processes

How Everyday Things Are Made website, 8.10

mapping websites

Google Maps vs. Mapquest, 22.11

Mapquest, 22.11

maps. See atlases; mapping websites; topic maps (topic mapping)

marketing (for indexing jobs)

book-by-book targeting, 8.9

See also job markets (for indexers); websites

markets

for ebooks, 9.12; 10.1-2; 22.12

for reference books, 3.1-2

for taxonomy design, 5.3

See also job markets (for indexers); Spanish publishing market

Maron, M. E.

“Automatic Indexing: An Experimental Inquiry” article, 16.11

“An Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness for a Full-Text Document-Retrieval System” article, 16.12

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

START natural language search engine, 15.11

master clocks, 9.9

Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Child)

index format, 1.4

McAfee VirusScan, 1.8

McFeely, W. Drake

on The 9/11 Commission Report, 17.11

McIlroy, Thad

“The New World of Offshoring and Automation” article, 20.12

medical books

public library buying trend, 22.2

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-6

See also health-related books; medical journals (literature); medical publishing

medical dictionaries, 10.11

medical indexing, 23.2-5

charging by the entry, 23.3

getting started in, 23.4-5

project parameters, 23.3

subject areas, 23.2

medical information resources, 23.9

medical journals (literature)

public resource for, 14.5

medical publishing

business consolidation in, 23.2

offshoring of, 23.4

See also medical books

MediLexicon, 10.11

Medline database, 10.10

MegaClock, 9.10

mentions (passing mentions in indexes), 7.7-8

meridians

Biel Meridian, 9.11

Mertes, Kate

on outsourcing in the U.S. from India (letter), 17.6

MeSH vocabulary

information resources, 23.9

Metabrowser, 4.5

metadata, 5.1-2

browser, 4.5

Glossary of Metadata Terms, 6.14

Google and metatags, 6.12

NISO Guide for Publishers, 8.10

resources on, 3.8; 6.15; 8.10; 17.10

types, 5.1-2

Metadata Demystified: A Guide for Publishers (NISO), 8.10

“Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!” paper (Garshol), 17.10

“Metastuff,” 17.10

metatopics, 11.1-7

as implied in all headings, 11.4

invisibility in some indexes, 11.3-4

subheadings under, 11.2-3, 4-7; 13.10-11

Mexico

offshoring (BPO) in, 20.12

Meyer, David

on multitasking, 21.14

Microsoft (corporation)

ebooks campaign, 3.1; 10.1

ebooks format, 11.8

file storage system, 13.14

Machine Translation project, 14.11

Microsoft Learning, 18.1

embedded indexing benefits, 18.6

embedded indexing page rates, 18.5-6

embedded indexing process, 18.3-4, 5; 19.2, 6-7

embedded indexing tools required, 18.4-5

indexer hiring practice, 18.2

indexers' impressions of the embedding process, 18.5

number of books with indexes published by, 18.1

Microsoft Network (MSN)

search engine relationship (usage) chart, 8.12

Microsoft Reader Format (for ebooks), 11.8

Microsoft Windows CE

BMW 745i iDrive feature, 2.11

Microsoft Word

embedded indexing in, 17.13; 18.3-4, 5; 19.2, 6-7

embedded indexing plug-in, 20.9

Milstead, Jessica

on generators (letter), 10.5

Indexicon review web link, 1.11

selected papers archive, 7.13

minimizing distractions, 17.15; 22.11

minor mentions (passing mentions in indexes), 7.7-8

missing indexes, 7.13; 17.11; 21.14; 22.4-5

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

START natural language search engine, 15.11

Modern Information Retrieval glossary, 2.11

molecular biology

information resources, 23.9

Monk, Michael J.

“Making Cents of Copy and Print Management” article, 5.8

Monographic Principle (Otlet), 14.12

Monroe, Marilyn

birth name search, 1.9

Morris, Jeff

on taxonomy/classification and search (article), 9.11

Morville, Peter

findability article, 3.10

findability website, 15.12

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 5.4

Moys, Elizabeth (Betty), 20.11

Moys Classification Scheme website, 20.11

Mozilla (browser), 13.12; 18.9

Thunderbird newsreader, 15.10

“Mozilla's Firefox: The Searcher's Browser” article (Sherman), 20.11

MSN (Microsoft Network)

search engine relationship (usage) chart, 8.12

multi-volume indexes, 1.4

multitasking

and cognitive overload, 21.14

MultiTes (taxonomy software), 4.5, 10

Mulvany, Nancy

confessions, 16.13; 21.10

cookbook index, 6.9-10

on embedded indexing, 19.1-7

experience of indexing, 3.3

first indexing job, 22.8

on Henige's JSP article on indexing (web link), 3.4

in Index (VA), 4.17ph

Indexicon review web link, 1.11

on Moys, 20.11

NISO TR03 review, 8.8

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 1.16

on Ross, 22.8

on see under and see also under references, 3.6

UC Berkeley Extension indexing course, 21.5-6

Wellisch memories, 13.14

See also Letters; Q & A column

Museum of Online Museums, 18.11

museum websites, 18.11

music books

U.S. production trends, 6.2-4; 16.2-6

Mydoom@MM virus, 12.9

Myers-Briggs typology

online test web link, 1.16; 7.17

profiled indexer scores, 1.16-17; 7.17-18


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N

name indexes

author indexes, 15.9

See also scientific name indexes

name verification

in Web searches, 1.9-10

named anchors (in website indexing), 16.8

names. See acronyms; geographic names; personal names; scientific names

NASA

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website, 1.9

Visible Earth website, 5.11

World Wind website, 22.10

National Cancer Institute Thesaurus, 13.14

National Information Standards Organization publications. See “NISO” titles

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

time services, 9.9

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

medical information resources, 23.9

National Research Council of Canada

services, 9.10

National Writers Union

campaign to oppose offshoring, 22.13

company alerts, 4.14

Natural Language Processing group (Microsoft)

Machine Translation project, 14.11

natural language search engines, 15.11

negotiating with clients

indexing rates, 8.5; 9.2

turnaround times, 9.1-2

Nelson, Ted

Project Xanadu, 14.12

Nemko, Marty

“Offshoring and You” article, 22.13

NetNation (domain administration service), 12.9

Netscape (browser), 13.12

“The New World of Offshoring and Automation” article (McIlroy), 20.12

news

Google News website, 1.11

newsgroups, 15.10

newsreaders, 15.10

NISO Guide for Publishers: Metadata Demystified, 8.10

NISO TR03: Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numbers and Other Symbols

hyphen sort, 18.7

review article (Mulvany), 8.8

symbol sort options, 8.8

NISO Z39.19-200x: Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, 23.9

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

time services, 9.9

NLM (National Library of Medicine)

medical information resources, 23.9

“No”

“20 Ways to Say 'No'” list (Creel), 22.10

“No Time for an Index,” 7.13

See also missing indexes

Nolo.com

legal reference resources, 2.16

nonclassified entries

mixing with classified entries, 4.8-9; 5.5

Norton (company). See W. W. Norton & Company

Norton AntiVirus, 1.8

note management software, 17.8

Note Studio, 17.8

“The Numbers, Please: U.S. Book Production, 2002,” 6.1-6

“The Numbers, Please: U.S. Book Production, 2003,” 16.1-6

numerals

sort options, 18.8


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O

obligations, open-ended, 16.14

OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)

WorldCat database Google access project, 11.14

“Odd Mishaps Cause Computer Grief,” 10.17

OEBPS (Open eBook Publication Structure), 8.12

digital publishing resource, 3.8

“OEBPS: The Universal eBook Format?” article (Sanders), 8.12

OFAC. See Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

Office of Foreign Assets Control. See Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

office suite (Linux), 18.9; 19.11

offices

assistants (pets), 21.17ph; 22.15ph

cleaned up, 17.17ph

cleaning up clutter, 17.14-15

cluttered, 15.15ph; 16.11

“Offices of Two Indexers,” 15.15ph; 17.17ph

offshoring (outsourcing) (BPO), 12.1-7

alarming indications, 20.13

of Builder.com's article writing, 14.11

in China, 12.3; 20.12; 23.12

companies involved in, 12.3-7; 22.13

of copyediting, 12.6-7

countries hosting offshore operations, 12.2, 3, 6-7; 20.12; 23.12

of database indexing jobs, 12.1

defined, 12.2

double-speak for, 18.7

i-TORQUE readers on (letters), 14.6

of indexing jobs, 21.4; 23.4

and indexing rates, 14.6

in India, 12.1-5, 13; 13.7; 14.11; 20.12

of IT jobs, 12.3-7, 13; 13.7; 14.11

“Keeping Your Indexing Business Onshore,” 14.1-5

of medical publishing, 23.4

organizations against, 22.13

outsourceability attributes (of indexing businesses), 14.1-3, 5

outsourceability of indexing jobs, 14.3-4, 5; 20.13

in the Philippines, 12.2, 3, 6-7; 20.12

preferred term, 12.2

in the printing industry, 20.12-13; 23.12

in the publishing industry, 12.1, 5-7; 14.4; 20.12-13; 23.12

publishing industry production focus, 12.7; 14.4

pull factors, 12.2

resources on, 20.12-13

ship for software design venture, 23.11

sluggish economy and, 23.12

software design ship venture, 23.11

software services outsourcing, 12.3

SPI indexer job ad, 12.15ph

of tax return preparation, 12.4-5

of technical writing, 13.7; 14.11

UCB report (2003), 12.2-3; 14.1

in the U.S. from India (letter), 17.6

web links, 12.7, 13

“Offshoring and the Global Marketplace” article, 20.12

“Offshoring and You” article (Nemko), 22.13

“Offshoring Report,” 12.1-7

Ogbuji, Uche

“The Languages of the Semantic Web” article, 3.9

One New Thing weblog, 12.13

Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

WorldCat database Google access project, 11.14

ontologies

cancer ontology, 13.14

classification systems as, 1.10-11; 3.9; 5.11

IA Summit 2004 panel on, 14.10

philosophical meaning, 1.11; 5.11

resources on, 3.9; 5.11; 6.15

Web Ontology Language (OWL), 13.14

Open Directory Project (search engine)

search engine relationship (usage) chart, 8.12

Open eBook Forum, 8.12; 10.2

ebook sales survey, 9.12

Open eBook Publication Structure. See OEBPS (Open eBook Publication Structure)

open-ended obligations, 16.14

Open Publication License, 3.2

Open WorldCat pilot project, 11.14

OpenOffice (Linux), 18.9; 19.11

OpenOffice Writer (Linux), 19.11

Opera (browser), 13.12

operating systems

embedded, 2.11

organizing information

Otlet on, 14.12

See also information architecture; managing information

Otlet, Paul

on organizing information, 14.12

Otter Amendment (Patriot Act), 8.14

outsourceability

attributes (of indexing businesses), 14.1-3, 5

of indexing jobs, 14.3-4, 5; 20.13

outsourcing. See offshoring (outsourcing) (BPO)

“Overcommitted?,” 22.10

overload

cognitive, 21.14

See also anxiety about undone tasks condition

Overture (search engine)

usage chart, 8.12

overwhelm. See anxiety about undone tasks condition

OWL (Web Ontology Language), 13.14


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P

page numbers. See locators (reference locators) (page numbers)

page rates, 8.4-7

for embedded indexing, 18.5-6; 20.8

and hourly earnings, 2.2-5, 4t

as not keeping pace, 8.4; 10.7; 20.8; 21.3-4

specialty area rates, 8.4

tiered rates, 8.5

See also indexing rates (pay rates); low pay rates

PageRank tool (Google), 14.8

pages, indexable. See indexable pages

Palm Desktop software, 17.7-8

paper books. See printed books (on paper)

parallel topics

reflecting the text, 15.8-9

passing mentions (in indexes), 7.7-8

Patriot Act (USA Patriot Act), 3.11-12; 8.13; 9.6

ACLU suit against, 8.14

civil resolutions against, 8.14

Freedom to Read Protection Act and, 4.15; 8.13, 15

i-TORQUE reader on (letter), 9.6

Otter Amendment, 8.14

Patriot Act II

Ashcroft campaign, 9.6

draft proposals web link, 3.12

“Patriot Acts, Then & Now: Protect Our Freedom to Read” Op-Ed piece (Schroeder), 8.15

pay rates. See indexing rates (pay rates); low pay rates; page rates

PBase (photo sharing/hosting) website, 23.9

PDAs (personal digital assistants), 17.7

as ebook reading devices, 10.2; 11.8

medical dictionary, 10.11

software for, 17.7-8

using web browsers on, 13.12

PDF conversion tools, 5.9, 10

PDF files

Adobe Acrobat, 5.9-10

backward compatibility, 5.9

charging for printing, 5.7-8

conversion tools, 5.9, 10

download times at various connection speeds, 5.7

i-TORQUE file printing, 5.9; 11.10

PDF format (portable document format)

10-year anniversary, 6.15

for ebooks, 11.8

PDF995 conversion tool, 5.10

PDFzone.com website, 5.9, 10

“People and Paper,” 4.11

people as leashed to new technologies, 21.15

“The Perfect Book?,” 17.11

Perlman, Janet, 8.1; 9.1

on ASI, 9.4, 5

business description, 8.1-2

on certification of indexers, 9.3

on index quality, 8.3, 5; 9.1

on the indexing profession, 8.3-4; 9.4-5

on indexing rates, 8.3-6

interview, 8.1-7; 9.1-5

on negotiating with clients, 8.5; 9.1-2

on professional ethics, 8.3; 9.2

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 7.18

on Russell's Wilson Award–winning index, 17.1

on the Spanish indexing market, 4.6-7; 8.2

on working in The Zone at low rates without sacrificing quality, 8.6-7

workshops on quality, 9.3

on writing, 9.3

personal digital assistants. See PDAs (personal digital assistants)

personal information management, 13.14

personal integrity, 9.2

personal names

African language materials, 9.13

first name vs. last name alias entries, 13.9

reflecting the author's usage, 23.7

Web search verification of, 1.9-10

“Pesky Taxonomists,” 4.11

PestPatrol (SaferSite), 3.7

pets

“Indexers' Office Assistants,” 21.17ph; 22.15ph

Philippines

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.2, 3, 6-7; 20.12

philosophy books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-5

photo sharing/hosting website, 23.9

picture of the day

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website, 1.9

Pink, Daniel H.

IT jobs offshoring article, 12.13

Pitkoff, Kathy, 23.1

business description, 23.1

on indexing in a rural area, 23.5-6

indexing start, 23.1

interview, 23.1-6

on medical indexing, 23.2-5

Pitman, R. J., 6.12

Pixar animation shorts, 11.13

Places Online website, 12.11

plant names (scientific names)

regulation of, 4.8

taxonomy changes, 4.11

See also scientific name indexes

plug-ins for indexing in FrameMaker and Word, 20.9

PMA (Independent Book Publishers Association), 23.13

political issues in taxonomy (classification system) design, 4.1, 4; 5.3

Polysearch (search engine), 21.12

portable document format. See PDF format (portable document format)

posters

posters

“Emergency Poster–Virus” flowchart (Calvert), 19.14

at Indexers' Rest Home, 2.18

Renaissance Library Collection website, 20.10

Potter, Harry

Harry Potter Lexicon, 7.13

power outage protection

generators, 10.5

Powerquest Drive Image, 2.9-10

Prentice, Scott, 20.9

Price, Gary

on Google Scholar, 21.11-12

on Google's digitizing project, 21.11

printed books (on paper)

vs. ebooks, 3.1-3; 10.1-2

encyclopedia publishers and, 4.11

single-source book indexes, 4.2

printers

ink cartridges, 15.4

multifunction products, 15.2-3

printing costs, 5.7-8

and UPSs, 10.6

printing

charging for printing PDF files, 5.7-8

i-TORQUE PDF files, 5.9; 11.10

Printing Impressions

offshoring articles, 20.12-13

printing industry

offshoring in, 20.12-13; 23.12

prints

Renaissance Library Collection website, 20.10

privacy

business contact access options, 12.8

productivity

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

See also Taking Care of Business & Yourself column

professional ethics, 8.3; 9.2

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 1.16-17; 7.17-18

project scope change

agreements on, 5.13-15

Project Xanadu (Nelson), 14.12

protecting work time, 17.15

“Protecting Yourself: Checking Out New Clients,” 4.13-15

“Protecting Yourself from Change, Shifting Sands:,” 5.13-15

Prozac

“Bush Campaigner's Prozac Solution,” 20.13

psychology books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-5

public libraries (in the U.S.)

book buying in 2004, 22.1

listing service for stockings of specific books, 11.14

Patriot Act and, 3.11-12; 4.15; 9.6

Public Library of Science, 14.5

total number and circulation, 22.1

Public Library of Science, 14.5

publishers

on Amazon's book-scanning operation, 7.15; 9.13; 10.13

checking out new clients, 4.13-14

foreign-owned vs. American-owned, 20.13; 23.13

Independent Book Publishers Association (PMA), 23.13

large (big six), 23.13

new publishers in 2003, 16.6

small and midsize publishers study, 23.13

Spanish publishers, 22.5

suit against the Treasury Department OFAC, 19.12

Top 101 Independent Book Publishers list, 23.13

U.S. sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

Wiley, 21.4; 22.13

See also booksellers; publishing industry

Publishers Weekly, 18.7; 19.8

salary survey, 7.11-12

publishing industry

Britannica's return to printing on paper, 4.11

digital publishing guide, 3.8

ebook operation closures, 6.14; 9.12; 10.1

ebooks vs. printed books, 3.1-3; 10.1-2

in India, 13.1-8

medical publishing, 23.2, 4

misperception of indexing and indexers in, 9.4, 5

offshoring in, 12.1, 5-7; 14.4; 20.12-13; 23.12

offshoring production focus, 12.7; 14.4

Open Publication License, 3.2

publisher statistics, 23.13

salary survey, 7.11-12

sluggish economy and, 23.12

U.S. book production, 2001-2002, 6.1-6, 3t, 4t; 16.1, 6

U.S. book production, 2002-2003, 16.1-3, 2t, 3t, 6; 22.2-5

U.S. book production, 2003 vs. 2001, 16.4, 4t, 6

U.S. book production trends, by category, 6.2-5; 16.2-6; 18.7; 22.2-5

U.S. book sales, 2001-2002, 5.12; 6.5-6

U.S. sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

See also intellectual property rights; markets; publishers; scholarly publishing; university presses

PubMed Browser (TouchGraph), 2.13

PubMed database

browser, 2.13

resources on, 23.9

Punch website (cartoons), 6.13

purchase order numbers (for invoices), 4.13-14

The Purpose-driven Life (Warren)

sales, 22.4

push technology, 1.10; 2.6

“Put Your Indexing in Order” article (Lindstrom), 2.12

“Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search” article (Morris), 9.11


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Q

Q & A column

acronym spellouts, 1.5

bold type in indexes, 23.7

business telephone line, 12.8; 14.7

charging for printing PDF files, 5.7-8

classified entries, 4.8-9; 6.9-10

columnist introductions, 11.10; 12.13; 15.14

cross-references from subheadings, 2.7-8; 3.5-6

email aliases, 12.8

encyclopedia index entries and locators (Stauber), 19.10

finding forthcoming book titles on Amazon, 8.9

first name vs. last name alias entries (Stauber), 13.9

getting started in indexing, 22.8

hyphen sort options, 18.7

incomplete or colloquial names, 23.7

italic type in indexes, 23.7

last minute indexing jobs, 23.8

long strings of locators, 7.7-8

metatopics and subheadings under (Stauber), 13.10-11

multi-volume indexes, 1.4

name indexes (author indexes) (Stauber), 15.9

numeral sort options, 18.8

parallel topics (consistency) (Stauber), 15.8-9

passing mentions, 7.7-8

power outages and a UPS, 9.7

Publishers Weekly, 18.7

reporting errors in the text, 9.8

see also reference indention under main headings, 11.9

see under and see also under references, 3.6

shortening titles in index entries, 21.6

symbol sort options, 8.8

UC Berkeley Extension indexing course, 21.5-6

UC Berkeley Extension Online indexing course (Wright), 21.5

website indexing with HTML-Indexer (Wright), 16.8

wording inconsistencies (Stauber), 19.9-10

Yellow Page listings, 14.7

quality

work quality clauses (in contracts), 2.14-16

See also index quality

quality of work product clauses (in contracts), 2.15-16

Quark

embedded indexing in, 17.12, 13

QuicKeys program, 20.9

Quint, Barbara

on Factiva Alerts (article), 2.6

on Google's digitizing project (article), 21.11

on OCLC's WorldCat database Google access project, 11.14


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R

R. R. Bowker. See Bowker book production press releases

R. R. Donnelly

offshoring in China, 23.12

RAM overload in short-term memory, 17.14

Random House v Rosetta, 2.16

Random House Ventures

investment in American Reading Company, 23.12

“Ranganathan for IAs” article (Steckel), 13.8

Rao, Anitha S.

“Indexing FrameMaker Documents” paper, 12.11

rates. See indexing rates (pay rates); low pay rates; page rates

Rayward, W. Boyd

on Otlet (Paul), 14.12

Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry

“Errata,” 8.17

recipe websites, 5.12; 19.13

recreation books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-5; 16.2-5

Red Hat Linux, 18.9

reference books

ebook reading experience, 10.3-4

in India, 13.1-3

market for, 3.1-2

public library expenditure trend, 22.2

“reference locator,” 13.16ph

reference locators. See locators (reference locators) (page numbers)

reflecting the text

parallel topics, 15.8-9

personal names, 23.7

wording inconsistencies, 19.9-10

refusing jobs, 9.1-2

reinstallations of applications, 15.6

religion books

U.S. production trends, 22.4-5

Renaissance Library Collection website, 20.10

reporting errors in the text, 9.8

ResearchBUZZ Extra, 18.13

ResearchBUZZ website, 5.12

Reville, Lynette

weblog, 12.13

Reynolds, Joshua

“Internationalized Back-of-the-Book Indexes for XSL Formatting Objects” paper, 8.11

Rhoades, Gale, 15.1

on backup systems, 15.5-6

on computer peripherals, 15.1-3, 7

on cost analysis of business equipment, 15.3

on firewalls, 15.4-5

interview, 15.1-7

on UPSs, 10.5-6; 15.1-2, 7

on Wi-Fi, 15.7

Ricci, Christian

“Developing and Creatively Leveraging Hierarchical Metadata and Taxonomy” article, 17.10

Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way (John Paul II), 22.4

Roberts, Carol

on Henige's JSP article on indexing (web link), 3.4

Robertson, Michael

and the German Network of Indexers, 17.9

on indexing and indexes on the Continent (article), 6.8

rolling burnouts

indexers' experiences of, 16.13, 14

Rosenblum, Bruce

“A Decade of DTDs and SGML in Scholarly Publishing: What Have We Learned?” paper, 8.11

Rosenfeld, Louis

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 5.4

Rosetta, Random House v, 2.16

Ross, BevAnne, 22.8

routers

as firewalls, 15.4-5

run-in format

for sub-subheadings in indented indexes, 7.4, 10

rural areas

indexing businesses in, 23.5-6

Russell, Janet

professional background, 17.1

on Publishers Weekly (letter), 19.8

Wilson Award–winning index, 17.1

Russia

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.3


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S

salaries

ASI survey, 1.2-3; 2.1-2

for editors, 7.12

for executives, 7.12

Publishers Weekly survey, 7.11-12

See also indexing rates (pay rates); wages

sanctions (U.S.)

and the publishing industry, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

Sanders, Glenn

“OEBPS: The Universal eBook Format?” article, 8.12

Sanders, Rep. Bernard

and the Freedom to Read Protection Act, 4.15; 8.13, 15

on the Patriot Act, 8.13

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

and invoices, 22.13

Sarnoff, Richard, 23.12

satellite images of Earth websites (NASA), 5.11; 22.10

satisfactory performance clauses (in contracts), 2.14-15

saying “No”

“20 Ways to Say 'No'” list (Creel), 22.10

scanning. See digitizing (scanning) of books

schedule slips. See slipped schedules

schedules. See calendars; tasks; to do lists

scholarly publishing

DTDs and SGML in (paper), 8.11

U.S. sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

See also university presses

“Scholarly Publishing Woes,” 18.13

Schroeder, Pat

and the Get Caught Reading campaign, 8.13

“Patriot Acts, Then & Now: Protect Our Freedom to Read” Op-Ed piece, 8.15

science books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-5

See also scientific journals (literature)

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

company alerts, 4.14

scientific journals (literature)

public resource for, 14.5

scientific name indexes, 4.8; 5.5-6

including nonclassified entries in, 4.8-9; 5.5

see references from subheadings in, 2.7-8; 3.5

scientific names

plant names, 4.8, 11

See also scientific name indexes

Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in a Digital Age (Levy), 21.14

SDI (selective dissemination of information), 1.10

SeaCode venture, 23.11

search. See finding information; full-text searches; information retrieval; search engines; Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com); Web searches

“Search Engine Technologies,” 22.10

search engines

A9.com (Amazon), 15.12

clustering search engines, 11.11

glossaries of terms related to, 2.11

Google News Search, 1.11

Google Scholar, 21.11-12

for Grokker, 6.11; 11.1

librarians as human search engines, 21.10

natural language search engines, 15.11

organization for findability resource, 15.12

Polysearch, 21.12

relationship (usage) chart, 8.12

technologies (article), 22.10

text mining programs vs., 10.10

visual display of information, 2.13; 4.12; 9.11

See also Google; visualizers (of Web search results); Web searches

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI@home project, 7.11

Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com), 10.12-15

full-text searches in, 10.12-13, 14, 15

Google Print project vs., 11.14

intellectual property rights issues, 7.15; 9.13; 10.12, 13

librarians on, 11.15

print function disabled, 10.13

publisher concerns about, 7.15; 9.13; 10.13

sales impact, 10.14

scanning operation, 7.14-15; 9.13; 10.12, 13

search function, 10.14

statistics available through, 23.10

user response, 11.15

searches. See finding information; full-text searches; information retrieval; search engines; Search Inside the Book (Look Inside the Book II) (Amazon.com); Web searches

SeatGuru.com, 21.14

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Edgar website, 4.14

security. See computer security

see also references, 2.7

indention of under main headings, 11.9

placement of, 7.3

from subheadings, 3.6

see also under references, 3.6

see references

primary purpose, 2.7

from subheadings, 2.7-8; 3.5-6

target main heading–subheading separator, 7.3

see under references, 3.6

“Seeking Better Web Searches” article, 22.10

selective dissemination of information (SDI), 1.10

Semantic Web project, 3.9

draft specifications, 13.14

resources on, 3.9; 15.12

September 11, 2001. See 9/11 (September 11, 2001)

SETI@home project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project), 7.11

SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)

in scholarly publishing (paper), 8.11

Shawvan, Julie

on indexing rate database job market impacts (letter), 20.6-8

Sherman, Chris

“Mozilla's Firefox: The Searcher's Browser” article, 20.11

ShieldsUP! program (Gibson Research), 19.14

“Shifting Sands: Protecting Yourself from Change,” 5.13-15

ship for software design venture, 23.11

shopping websites, 20.10

short-term memory

clearing space in, 17.14

shortening titles in index entries, 21.6

shredders, 15.2

Shuttleworth, Christine

on Henige's JSP article on indexing (web link), 3.4

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 1.17

sickness

and indexing jobs, 23.8

SIGCR email list, 5.4

SIGIA email list, 5.4

Signmaker Central, 14.8

single-source indexing, 4.2-3; 10.4

SIPs (Statistically Improbable Phrases) (Search Inside the Book), 23.10

slipped schedules, 23.8

contract agreements on, 5.13-15

sluggish economy

and the publishing industry, 23.12

Snood (game), 21.10

societies of indexers

German Network of Indexers (DNI), 17.9

See also American Society of Indexers (ASI)

sociology books

U.S. production trends, 6.2-5; 16.2-6

software

software

Activate plug-in for Adobe Acrobat, 17.12, 13

Adobe Acrobat, 5.9-10

Agendus, 17.8

anti-virus software, 1.8; 19.14

AntiVirus (Norton), 1.8

auditing tool (for PCs), 16.9

automatic classification/categorization programs, 10.10; 19.14

Backup My PC, 15.6

backup software, 2.9-10; 15.6

BeLarc Advisor, 16.9

ClearForest, 10.10; 19.14

cookie removal software, 3.7; 6.12

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

eFax, 1.6

favicon program, 16.7

fax accounts, 1.6

FireFox, 13.12; 20.11

firewall software, 1.7-8; 15.4, 5

games, 12.11; 21.10

Grokker, 4.5, 12; 6.11-12; 11.11-12

HTML-Indexer, 11.8; 16.8

IconForge program, 16.7

InDesign, 14.9; 17.13

Linux (operating system), 18.9-10

Linux office suite, 18.9; 19.11

Logik, 4.5, 10

MailWasher, 12.9-10

McAfee VirusScan, 1.8

MegaClock, 9.10

Mozilla, 13.12; 15.10; 18.9

MultiTes, 4.5, 10

Netscape, 13.12

newsreaders, 15.10

Norton AntiVirus, 1.8

note management software, 17.8

Note Studio, 17.8

office suite (Linux), 18.9; 19.11

OpenOffice (Linux), 18.9; 19.11

OpenOffice Writer (Linux), 19.11

Opera, 13.12

Palm Desktop, 17.7-8

PDA software, 17.7-8

PDF conversion tools, 5.9, 10

PestPatrol, 3.7

Powerquest Drive Image, 2.9-10

Quark, 17.12, 13

Snood (game), 21.10

Spybot, 6.12

spyware removal software, 3.7; 6.12

taxonomy design software, 4.5, 10

temporary file removal software, 3.7

terminology-gathering software, 4.5, 10

TermTree, 4.5, 10

text editors, 10.9

TextPad, 10.9

thesaurus design software, 4.5, 10

Thunderbird, 15.10

time software, 9.9-10

Timekeep for Windows, 20.14; 21.7-9

VirusScan (McAfee), 1.8

wastebasket toss game, 12.11

website tools, 14.8

Webtime, 9.9

Window Washer, 3.7

ZoneAlarm, 1.7-8; 15.4, 5

See also browsers; embedded indexing software; indexing software (dedicated); Microsoft Word; word processors

software design ship venture, 23.11

Software Engineering Terms glossary (IEEE), 18.12

Software for Indexing, 19.3

software services outsourcing in India, 12.3

SOLs (Standards of Learning)

for children's book indexes, 20.3-4

sorting rules (alphabetizing/filing rules)

CMS-15 rules, 7.4-5, 9; 18.7, 8

hyphens, 18.7

numerals, 18.8

symbols, 8.8

South Africa

offshoring (BPO) in, 12.2, 6

spam

resource on, 19.14

Spanish indexing market, 22.5

Perlman on, 4.6-7; 8.2

Spanish Internet Glossary, 5.12

Spanish publishers, 22.5

Spanish publishing market, 2.12; 22.5

Críticas publication, 4.7

public library buying trend, 22.2

specialty area indexing rates, 8.4

Specious Report on Google Print (article), 13.13

SPI Technologies (Manila)

offshore contracts, 14.4

offshore indexer job ad, 12.15ph

offshore publisher services, 12.6-7

sports books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-5; 16.2-5

SPSS text mining program, 10.10

Spybot, 6.12

spyware

removal software, 3.7; 6.12

SSPS automatic categorization program, 10.10

STAIRS document-retrieval system, 16.12

Standards of Learning (SOLs)

for children's book indexes, 20.3-4

Stanford University Press

digitizing of books, 13.13

START natural language search engine (MIT), 15.11

Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) (Search Inside the Book), 23.10

Stauber, Do Mi, 15.14

on classified entries (letter), 5.6

Facing the Text excerpt, 11.1-7

on first name vs. last name alias entries (Q & A), 13.9

on metatopics and subheadings under, 11.1-7; 13.10-11

on name indexes (Q & A), 15.9

on parallel topics (consistency) (Q & A), 15.8-9

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 1.17

Q & A columnist introduction, 11.10; 12.13; 15.14

on wording inconsistencies (Q & A), 19.9-10

“Steal this Book? A Publisher is Making it Easy” story (Lohr), 3.2

Steckel, Mike

“Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus” article, 12.11

“Creating a Controlled Vocabulary” article, 5.12

“Ranganathan for IAs” article, 13.8

“Synonym Rings and Authority Files” article, 8.12

“What Is a Controlled Vocabulary?” article, 3.10; 4.3

Stelmach, Michael

“The Application of Index Entries to Search and Retrieval of Books and Book Content” article, 7.15

sticker (“Indexer”), 6.17

stress. See anxiety about undone tasks condition

Strindberg, August

Inferno multimedia interpretation, 16.10

Strom, David

on push technology, 2.6

Strothman, Wendy, 20.10

sub-subheadings in indented indexes

run-in format, 7.4, 10

subheadings

chapter subheading mistake, 11.6

cross-references from, 2.7-8; 3.5-6

under metatopics, 11.2-3, 4-7; 13.10-11

mixing nonclassified with classified entries, 4.8-9; 5.5

see also references from, 3.6

subject entries

in encyclopedia indexes, 19.10

Subscribers Links webpage (i-TORQUE), 15.14

suits against the Treasury Department OFAC, 19.12; 20.10

supra

use of, 3.5-6

Swartz, Aaron

“The Semantic Web in Breadth” article, 3.9

Swatch (Swiss watch company)

on Internet Time, 9.11

symbols

sort options, 8.8

Synapse

“Taxonomies, Ontologies, Thesauri, and Authority Files” white paper, 5.11

Taxonomy Warehouse, 5.11

synonym rings, 8.12

“Synonym Rings and Authority Files” article (Fast, Leise, and Steckel), 8.12

synonymous terms

reflecting the text, 19.9-10


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T

Take Back Your Time initiative, 21.15

Taking Care of Business & Yourself column, 16.13

“20 Ways to Say 'No'” list (Creel), 22.10

burnout, 16.13, 14

cleaning up cluttered offices, 17.14-15

clearing short-term memory space, 17.14

protecting work time, 17.15

tickler file system, 20.14

time tracking and estimating, 20.14; 21.7-9

vacation planning, 21.15

See also anxiety about undone tasks condition; managing information

tape drives, 15.6

tasks

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

multitasking, 21.14

tickler file system, 20.14

See also anxiety about undone tasks condition

tax return preparation offshoring, 12.4-5

tax withholding for independent contractors proposal, 14.13-14

“Taxes & Indexers,” 14.13-14

taxonomies, 4.3-4

changes in, 4.11

directory (Taxonomy Warehouse), 5.11

IA Summit 2004 panel on, 14.10

resources on, 5.4, 11; 6.15; 15.12; 17.10

and search (article), 9.11

U.S. federal agency taxonomy requirements, 12.12

usefulness, 4.12

See also controlled vocabularies; taxonomy design

“Taxonomies, Ontologies, Thesauri, and Authority Files” white paper (Synapse), 5.11

“Taxonomies Galore,” 5.11

“Taxonomies Mandated by Law,” 12.12

taxonomy design, 4.1, 3-4

contracts for, 5.4

indexers and classification system/taxonomy design, 5.2; 6.15

markets, 5.3

political issues involved in, 4.1, 4; 5.3

presentation on (Gassie), 6.15

skill development resources, 5.4

software for, 4.5, 10

Synapse white paper on, 5.11

Taxonomy Warehouse, 5.11

technical writers

employment estimates, 1.2

Indian writers interview, 13.1-8

offshoring of work for, 13.7; 14.11

wage estimates, 1.2; 2.1

See also writers (authors)

technical writing

in India, 13.6-8

offshoring of, 13.7; 14.11

technology (technologies)

and cognitive overload, 21.14

developing nations and, 20.12

people as leashed to new technologies, 21.15

push technology, 1.10; 2.6

requirements for changing to a new technology, 19.4

technology books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-4; 16.2-6

TechsUnite website

Offshore Tracker, 22.13

telephones

business line, 12.8; 14.7

Google's map to address via phone number service, 12.8

turning off the ringer, 17.15

See also answering machines

temporary files

removal software, 3.7

Teoma (search engine)

and Grokker, 6.11; 11.1

TermTree (taxonomy software), 4.5, 10

text (in indexable documents)

reporting errors in, 9.8

structure required for indexing in The Zone at low rates without sacrificing quality, 8.6, 7

See also reflecting the text

text analysis, automated. See automatic classification/categorization

text editors, 10.9

text mining, 10.10

Lancaster on “mining,” 10.11

See also automatic classification/categorization

text styles/formatting in index entries, 23.7

TextPad (Helios), 10.9

TGN (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names), 6.13

Theban Mapping Project (TMP), 3.8

TheBrain (graph-based interface), 2.13

thesauri

controlled vocabulary terms, 12.11

Cook's Thesaurus, 8.10

design software, 4.5, 10

directory (Taxonomy Warehouse), 5.11

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, 6.13

Milstead papers archive, 7.13

National Cancer Institute Thesaurus, 13.14

resources on, 5.11; 7.13

ThinkMap (graph-based interface), 2.13

Thomson Gale

offshoring in India, 12.1

Thunderbird (Mozilla newsreader), 15.10

tickler file system, 20.14

tiered indexing rates, 8.5

time

time

Internet Time, 9.11

software for obtaining, 9.9-10

websites, 9.9, 10, 11

world time, 9.9

See also work time

Time Lord (Blaise), 9.10

“Time Spent Searching,” 16.11

Timekeep for Windows (Anderson), 21.7-9

trial report, 20.14

tinfoil hats, 21.10; 22.7ph

TinyURL, 6.13

titles (of books)

finding forthcoming titles on Amazon, 8.9

shortening in index entries, 21.6

TMP (Theban Mapping Project), 3.8

to do lists

desktop organizing software, 17.7-8

tickler file system, 20.14

See also tasks

Top 101 Independent Book Publishers list (Kremer), 23.13

“Top Ten Data Disasters,” 10.17

topic maps (topic mapping), 4.5; 17.10

resource on, 17.10

See also visual display of information (information mapping)

“Torqueness,” 15.14

torquing Google, 15.14

TouchGraph visualizers, 2.13; 4.12

TOXNET

information resources, 23.9

tracking indexing time, 21.7, 9

trade book publishing companies

vs. university presses, 6.5-6; 16.1, 3

trade embargoes. See embargoes (U.S.)

translation

Machine Translation project (Microsoft), 14.11

“Travel and Dissociative Fugue,” 21.14

travel books

U.S. production trends, 6.3-5; 16.2-6

Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

embargo advisories, 13.13

Iranian author's suit against, 20.10

publishers' and authors' suit against, 19.12

regulations against publishing works from embargoed countries, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

Trillin, Calvin

on looking oneself up in an index, 5.17

Tufte, Edward, 4.12

turnaround times

and index quality, 8.3; 9.1

negotiating, 9.1-2

turnover lines

acronym spellouts and, 1.5

“Tweaking Your Website,” 14.8

two-minute rule, 17.15

typewriter information website, 15.11

typos in the text

reporting, 9.8


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U

“UC Press Digitized Books,” 11.13

Udel, Jon

on browsers, 13.12

UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)

information resources, 23.9

unacceptable work clauses (in contracts), 2.14-15

undone tasks. See anxiety about undone tasks condition

Unicode order, 8.8

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

information resources, 23.9

uninterruptible power supplies. See UPSs (uninterruptible power supplies)

United States

book production, 2001-2002, 6.1-6, 3t, 4t; 16.1, 6

book production, 2002-2003, 16.1-3, 2t, 3t, 6; 22.2-5

book production, 2003 vs. 2001, 16.4, 4t, 6

book production trends, by category, 6.2-5; 16.2-6; 18.7; 22.2-5

book sales, 2001-2002, 5.12; 6.5-6

book trade deficit with China, 23.12

federal agency taxonomy requirements, 12.12

government information handbook, 19.13

outsourcing in the U.S. from India (letter), 17.6

public libraries in (total number), 22.1

regulations against publishing works from embargoed countries, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on the publishing industry, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

See also Freedom to Read Protection Act; Patriot Act (USA Patriot Act); Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); “U.S.” topics

United States Government Manual, 19.13

University of California

CDL (California Digital Library) eScholarship Editions, 11.13

University of California Berkeley

Fisher Center outsourcing report (2003), 12.2-3; 14.1

Teaching Library Glossary of Internet and Web Jargon, 2.11

University of California Berkeley Extension indexing course, 21.5-6

University of California Berkeley Extension Online indexing course, 21.5

University of Washington

Keeping Found Things Found project., 13.14

university presses

book production, 2001-2002, 6.1-2, 4t, 5

book production, 2002-2003, 16.1, 3, 3t

book production, 2003 vs. 2001, 16.4, 4t

book sales, 2001-2002, 5.12; 6.5-6

publishing woes, 18.13

suit against the Treasury Department OFAC, 19.12

vs. trade book publishing companies, 6.5-6; 16.1, 3

U.S. sanctions and OFAC regulations effects on, 13.13; 19.12; 20.10

See also scholarly publishing

UPSs (uninterruptible power supplies), 9.7; 10.5-6; 15.1-2

and printers, 10.6

and USB hubs, 15.7

URLs

short translation service, 6.13

U.S. Department of Labor. See Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

U.S. Department of the Treasury. See Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

U.S. Government Manual, 19.13

U.S. Naval Observatory

time services, 9.9

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Edgar website, 4.14

USA Patriot Act. See Patriot Act (USA Patriot Act)

usability studies

“Index vs. Full-text search,” 17.12-13

USB hubs, 15.7

USB ports, 15.7

Usenet newsgroups, 15.10

UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), 9.9


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V

vacation planning, 21.14, 15

Veritas software, 15.6

Verity (automatic categorization program), 19.14

Veverka, D. L.

on Henige's JSP article on indexing (letter), 3.4

videos

at Indexers' Rest Home, 23.15

Violi, Paul

on “Index” (his own poem), 19.16

viruses

infection response chart, 19.14

KLEZ virus, 1.8

Mydoom@MM virus, 12.9

resources on, 19.14

VirusScan (McAfee), 1.8

Visible Earth website (NASA), 5.11

visual display of information (information mapping), 2.13; 4.12; 9.11

See also topic maps (topic mapping); visualizers (of Web search results)

visualizers (of Web search results), 2.13; 4.12

Grokker, 4.5, 12; 6.11-12; 11.11-12

text mining programs, 10.10

TouchGraph visualizers, 2.13; 4.12

“Visualizing Information,” 4.12

vocabulary control, 23.9

See also classification systems/schemes; controlled vocabularies

Vonnegut, Kurt

on librarians and on indexers, 18.11

vulnerability check for computers, 19.14


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W

W. W. Norton & Company

and The 9/11 Commission Report, 17.11

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), 13.14

wages

ASI salary survey, 1.2-3; 2.1-2

BLS estimates, 1.1-2, 3; 2.1

See also salaries

Wall, Krista, 18.1

interview (on indexing at Microsoft Learning), 18.1-6; 19.6-7

Wallis, Jim

God's Politics, 22.4, 5

Warren, Rick

The Purpose-driven Life sales, 22.4

WashTech website

Offshore Tracker, 22.13

wastebasket toss game, 12.11

Web (World Wide Web)

glossary of terms related to, 2.11

and information retrieval, 1.10-11; 7.13

web browsers. See browsers

web links

i-TORQUE Subscribers Links page, 15.14

importance for websites, 14.8; 15.14

visual display of search results, 2.13; 4.12

See also visualizers (of Web search results)

Web Ontology Language (OWL), 13.14

Web Page Analyzer, 14.8

Web Search Garage (Calishain)

book and website, 18.13

“Web Search: How the Web Has Changed Information Retrieval” article (Brooks), 7.13

Web searches

cost of flawed search results studies, 14.11; 16.11

finding forthcoming book titles on Amazon, 8.9

name verification in, 1.9-10

“Seeking Better Web Searches” article, 22.10

time spent on searches study, 16.11

visual display of related links, 2.13; 4.12; 9.11

“Web Search” article, 7.13

Web Search Garage (Calishain), 18.13

See also information retrieval; search engines; visualizers (of Web search results)

WebFountain project (IBM), 12.12

WebFX graphics effects generator, 14.8

weblogs

One New Thing, 12.13

Webmonkey website design website, 14.8

website indexing, 2.12; 11.8

with HTML-Indexer, 11.8; 16.8

named anchors, 16.8

Website Indexing: Enhancing Access to Information within Websites, 2nd Ed. (Browne and Jermey), 16.10

enquiry, purchasing, and price information (letter), 17.6

PDF format availability, 21.13

websites

development issues, 17.10

telephone numbers on, 12.8

tools for tweaking, 14.8

web links importance for, 14.8; 15.14

Webtime (software), 9.9

Weinberg, Bella Hass

“Complexity in Indexing Systems: Abandonment and Failure” paper, 3.10

Wellisch, Hans

on locators after main headings modified by subheadings, 7.7

memories of (Mulvany), 13.14

on mixing classified and nonclassified entries, 4.9

on passing mentions, 7.7

on see also reference indention under main headings, 11.9

on see under and see also under references, 3.6

Wells, H. G.

on an index to all knowledge, 14.12

West (Thomson Corporation)

offshoring in India, 12.1

“What Is a Controlled Vocabulary?” article (Fast, Leise, and Steckel), 3.10; 4.3

“What Is Ontology?” webpage (Corazzon), 5.11

“What Is Text Mining?” article (Hearst), 10.10

“What's Microsoft Up To?,” 14.11

Wheatley, Henry B.

on long strings of locators, 7.7

“Where is Index?,” 3.14-15ph

“Why Categorize?” article (Feldman), 19.14

Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity), 15.7

Wiley (publisher), 21.4; 22.13

Wilson Award–winning index, 17.1

Window Washer (Webroot), 3.7

wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), 15.7

Wolf, Gary

“The Great Library of Amazonia” article, 10.13

Woot! shopping website, 20.10

Word. See Microsoft Word

word-by-word sorts

CMS-15 rules, 7.4, 9; 18.7, 8

hyphens, 18.7

numerals, 18.8

word processors

Linux OpenOffice Writer, 19.11

See also Microsoft Word

wording inconsistencies

reflecting the text, 19.9-10

work. See employment; indexing jobs (projects); tasks; work time

work for hire contracts, 1.12-14

work quality clauses (in contracts), 2.14-16

work sources. See job markets (for indexers)

work time

estimating indexing time, 20.14; 21.8, 9

protecting, 17.15

and the sense of time poverty, 21.15

tracking indexing time, 21.7, 9

Web search time spent study, 16.11

world time, 9.9

World Wide Web. See Web (World Wide Web)

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 13.14

World Wind website (NASA), 22.10

WorldCat database Google access project, 11.14

Wright, Alex

on Otlet (Paul), 14.12

Wright, Jan C., 4.1; 5.1; 15.14

business description, 4.1

embedded indexing workshop announcement, 19.8

on indexing plug-ins for FrameMaker and Word, 20.9

interview, 4.1-5; 5.1-4

on metadata, 5.1-2

profile data (“Indexers Reveal Themselves”), 1.17

Q & A columnist introduction, 15.14

on single-source indexing, 4.2-3

on taxonomy (classification system) design, 4.3-5; 5.2-4

UC Berkeley Extension Online indexing course (Q & A), 21.5

on website indexing with HTML Indexer (Q & A), 16.8

writers (authors)

employment estimates, 1.2

indexing authors as citations and as subjects, 15.9

indexing guidelines (CUP), 11.17

suits against the Treasury Department OFAC, 19.12; 20.10

wage estimates, 1.2; 2.1

See also intellectual property rights; technical writers; writing

writers' associations

company alerts, 4.14

See also Authors Guild; National Writers Union

“Writers Get the Axe,” 14.11

WritersWeekly.com

company alerts, 4.14

writing

on indexing (by indexers), 9.3

and professional employment, 21.13

See also technical writing; writers (authors)

“Writing: Still Important,” 21.13


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X

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

classes in, 5.4

digital publishing resource, 3.8

embedded indexing in, 6.7

XSLT indexing processes, 8.11

XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language)

digital publishing resource, 3.8

indexing processes, 8.11


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Y

Yellow Page listings, 14.7

“You Don't Have Anti-Virus Protection Because?” article (Calvert), 19.14


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Z

The Zone (for indexers), 2.3, 4t

charging for printing PDF files, 5.8

getting into, 2.4-5

quality work at low rates, 8.6-7

working in at low rates, 2.4t; 8.6-7; 10.7

ZoneAlarm, 1.7-8; 15.4, 5