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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“I Love You, Madame Librarian” article (Vonnegut), 18:11
i-TORQUE
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); Web searches
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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