A recording of the Business Value of Taxonomy webinar, presented by Seth Maislin of Earley & Associates, is available here.
Author: Sanet le Roux
Publishing Technology Group (PTG) website
The PTG is a working party set up by the Society of Indexers (SI). Its remit is to advise SI members, publishers and authors on reconciling powerful text retrieval techniques with emerging delivery technologies in publishing. The website is now publicly accessible without a password.
http://www.ptg-indexers.org.uk/
“A Publisher’s Job Is to Provide a Good API for Books: You can start with your index” (an article by Hugh McGuire)
A publisher’s job is to provide good APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their books. Good publishers of the future will be the ones who provide great APIs… Read the full article by Hugh McGuire:
http://toc.oreilly.com/2013/02/a-publishers-job-is-to-provide-a-good-api-for-books.html
Interview with indexer John Noble
An interview with Fellow of the Society of Indexers (SI) John Noble:
http://tinyurl.com/jooohnnobleinterview
Webinar: “Words, Meaning, Context: Building an App from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.”
In this webinar, the process of creating an app for Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is explained. A recording of the webinar and the slides are available for viewing here.
“Producing an eBook – How hard can it be?” by James Lamb
A blog article by James Lamb where he gives an overview of the process he used to create an ebook for the Society of Indexers (SI) entitled “Newcomers: A selection of articles for those new to indexing”:
http://ccgi.jalamb.com/2012/11/producing-an-ebook-how-hard-can-it-be/
Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI)
The website of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI):
http://www.anzsi.org
We don’t need indexes in ebooks, right?
BIM Publishing Services CEO Kevin Broccoli on how indexes will evolve in the digital world.
Look at the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ygZ5ZPdRY8&list=PLF1F3420C16AD23D1&index=8&feature=plpp_video
Adding Value with Metadata: Open up the index
Listen to this webcast with Pilar Wyman: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/2376
Indexing Life – a blog
“Rule Number One” blog entry on the blog ‘Indexing Life’ by Sydney Wolfe Cohen:
“The rules of indexing, not counting those that are the responsibility of basic education, are few. The most useful are grounded in common sense and should therefore be self-evident. Among these …”
http://www.indexinglife.com/rule-number-one-2/