publishing computer consultant; specialties in indexes, composition, and EPUB

Cleveland
Joined July 2008
Just helped an indexer with sorting Egyptian hieroglyphs in #CINDEX - Vulture sorts first!
Good luck to Glenda Browne on her research! anzsi.org/anzsi-president-wi…
Lots of interest in discoverability at #DigitalBook why not make use of #indexes
More fun with Unicode. Continuing work on upgrading two large legal clients to #CINDEX v3.4.
Thanks Joshua @jtallent for a really useful session on EPUB3 lacunae & including me to speak on #indexes @digibookworld during #DBW15
Had a great time speaking to publishers about #indexes in ebooks @digibookworld as part of #dbw15
Thanks to @SandersK for letting me & @LevTech interview him about #indexes for #ebooks for @ASIndexing & all the other #indexers out there!
Thanks to @SandersK for letting me & @pilarw interview him re #indexes in #ebooks. This will be an article in a future issue of #KeyWords.
The Case for E-Book Indexes in the IBPA Independent tinyurl.com/mnmv8oo #indexing
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#indexing obtain an executive summary about indexes in ebooks & a usability study comparing indexes and searching: tinyurl.com/pjfrjcl
The profession of #indexing mystifies many #authors, and their closeness to the material can cloud their judgment. - Anne-Marie Downey
#indexing: #indexers do not replicate the text; indexers make the text manageable and accessible, - Anne-Marie Downey
#indexing: what languages can you say 'see also' in? voir aussi, véase también, siehe auch, ראה גם
Almost finished converting an #index in Hebrew from a Word document to the #CINDEX #indexing software--without being able to read Hebrew.
The savvy #publishers are the ones who see #indexing and access, not just content, as integral parts of their products. -Judy Luther
There is no greater authorial sin than releasing a book without an index. It should even be made an indictable offence. -S.R. Ranganathan
#Indexes in #eBooks: Executive Summary on why they are needed: tinyurl.com/oghxtp3
An #index contains the aboutness of the book's text. It is not just #metadata but #metacontent since it is contained in the book itself.
#Indexing is the art of writing an intellecutal analysis of the concepts in a book - searching text just finds words.
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