{"title":"Raising the profile of indexing: National Indexing Day 2022","authors":"M. Coe, A. Kingdom","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2022.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2022.17","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000National Indexing Day (#indexday), inaugurated in 2017 to celebrate the foundation of the Society of Indexers and promote the profession of indexing, was once more a virtual event in 2022. As the day drew to a close in the UK, it continued on the other side of the world with an event organised by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. In addition to considerable activity on social media instigated by @indexers, the day was enlivened by online discussions and presentations. After briefly setting out the background to National Indexing Day, this article gives a flavour of how the Society of Indexers and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers used the day to promote indexing and indexers in the online environment.","PeriodicalId":112648,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 40, Issue 2","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134000970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whom should we aim to please when creating ebook indexes?","authors":"M. Coe","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2022.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2022.16","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Twenty years ago in an article entitled ‘Whom should we aim to please?’, Hazel Bell considered the views of five different classes concerned with indexes: users, subjects, authors, publishers and regulators. Mary Coe updates this article with ebook indexes in mind and concludes that index users are the ones we should try to satisfy.","PeriodicalId":112648,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 40, Issue 2","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134397680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indexing The Indexer, Part 2. Identifying good practice in journal indexing","authors":"A. Kingdom","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2022.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2022.13","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The previous article in this series outlined the chequered history of indexing The Indexer, emphasising the apparent lack of concern for standardisation and consistency and the failure to establish a thesaurus or controlled vocabulary. Here we focus on the guidance on journal indexing available in the various indexing standards and manuals, and also in the pages of The Indexer itself, and consider the extent to which an agreed set of recommendations can be identified. A brief look at several different journal indexes suggests that users in different disciplines may have different needs, and that one size does not fit all, but who are the users of The Indexer’s indexes and have their views been taken into account?","PeriodicalId":112648,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 40, Issue 2","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127484766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding content in The Indexer survey: background","authors":"Max Mcmaster","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2022.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2022.14","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000An online survey asking readers how they find content in The Indexer was launched on National Indexing Day (30 March) in 2022. The aim was to fill a gap in knowledge about how easily the past 60-odd years of back issues can be searched and to determine the best approach for making content findable into the future. While preparing that survey, we considered the various indexes and databases available, and thought about who the journal’s readers might be. We also reflected on the lack of response to a previous attempt to gather feedback on how the indexes to the journal were used. This article provides that background to the survey and explains our purpose in conducting it. Results of the survey will be published in a future issue of the journal.","PeriodicalId":112648,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 40, Issue 2","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123500811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indexing with Excel, Part 1. Basics, database properties, sorting","authors":"W. Greulich","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2022.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2022.15","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000At first glance, Excel is rather an unsuitable program for indexing, but if one takes a closer look and gains some experience with it, the picture changes. With Excel, some things are not possible that one is used to with dedicated indexing programs (DIPs), but after appropriate setup, Excel can serve very well as a supplement to DIPs, and it is even possible to write and output indexes with it. Only when one delves deeper into Excel does its full potential reveal itself, and that is enormous. To demonstrate the most important ways Excel can be used for indexing, a series of four articles is needed. This first article introduces the basics of Excel, then shows how to make a database out of an Excel spreadsheet - the most important step in making the program suitable for indexing. Finally, the topic of sorting is illuminated, showing what sorting in Excel means.","PeriodicalId":112648,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 40, Issue 2","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129403082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}