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 a