This year, the Society of Indexers conference theme was ‘Human Indexing in a Digital World’. Held online, the conference took place on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 September. This blog post describes some key points I gleaned from the sessions I attended.
To mark National Indexing Day 2024, this word cloud includes ‘A’ and ‘Z’ headings from a selection of my indexes and is accompanied by a discussion of how thinking about different categories of information can be helpful during the indexing process.
This blog post describes the Society of Indexers 2023 conference in Leeds. It begins by describing the pre-conference walking tour of Leeds, and then covers the day of the conference. I describe the sessions that I attended, and the session for newly qualified and student indexers which I led.
All of the places in this word cloud are from the indexes that I’ve created since National Indexing Day 2022. The colour and size of each place name shows how often it appeared in this set of indexes.
This post describes two stand-out themes of the conference:
1. Non-linear texts and reading styles
2. Translations of indexing terminology and indexes
The Society of Indexers’ annual National Indexing Day is on Wednesday 30th March this year. And, in what is becoming an annual tradition, I have… Read More »National Indexing Day 2022
The Society of Indexers’ annual conference was held online for the first time on 9th and 10th November 2021. More than seventy indexers Zoomed in, including delegates from SI and sister organizations in Europe and North America. This post summarizes two of the conference highlights.
To celebrate National Indexing Day, here are some of the frequently used terms from the indexes I have created this past year.
The Society of Indexers’ newsletter has a regular column called “My Past Life.” In the most recent issue, I was asked to write about my route to indexing and I have adapted that article here.
Commissioning a professional indexer to index your publication can save you time and stress, and ensure that your readers will gain the best possible route map to your content.
Indexing is a specialist skill and it takes a significant amount of time to prepare an index well. It is an analytical process, not a keyword search, and it cannot be adequately replicated by computer software.
Sometimes indexers use ordering systems that are neither numerical nor alphabetical. This post discusses two examples of different arrangements: the book order of a Scripture index, and the use of themes in biographical indexing.