{"title":"The indexing of biography as a special genre or as historically documented text","authors":"Glyn Sutcliffe","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2021.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2021.16","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The indexing of biography as a genre, per se, is reconsidered with respect to subject indexing in general and the histories of lives in particular. The index of a biography of the chess player Bobby Fischer is compared with the index of a history of chess at the height of the Cold War conflict in which Bobby Fischer was the central protagonist. Some received theory of the indexing of biographies is critiqued and challenged by practical comparisons. Indexing from a literary perspective is considered and contrasted with back-of-book indexing from an information retrieval standpoint.","PeriodicalId":302236,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 39, Issue 2","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123646527","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":"Embedded indexing with Word. Part 5 - locators other than page numbers","authors":"W. Greulich","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2021.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2021.18","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The focus of the fourth part of this series was on the generation of annotations to page references and of functional indexes for ebooks. In the context of ebook indexes, it described how other fields besides the PAGE field can be incorporated into the XE field. This article follows on from that, showing how, by using the STYLEREF field, it is possible to bring other locators into an index as substitutes for page numbers. The decisive factor here is again the shifting method. Only with this method can the locators be integrated into an overall workflow from Word to ebook or from Word to Index-Manager and back. The first four articles in the series can be found in the June, September and December 2020 issues and in the March 2021 issue of The Indexer (38(2), 38(3), 38(4), 39(1)).","PeriodicalId":302236,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 39, Issue 2","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122003738","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":"In remembrance: Gale Pinney Rhoades (6 December 1948-31 January 2021)","authors":"N. Mulvany, D. Stauber","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2021.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2021.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":302236,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 39, Issue 2","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133375543","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":"Virtual professional development for freelance indexers: potential, pitfalls and practicalities","authors":"A. Kingdom","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2021.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2021.19","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000For freelance book indexers, an important part of their continuing professional development (CPD) has been through the conferences and workshops run by their national societies, providing a welcome break from the isolation of working from home, as well as opportunities to hone skills, learn new ones and generally keep abreast with developments in the profession. As COVID-19 spread rapidly round the globe, events began to be cancelled and the indexing community (like many professions) was forced to move online, quickly adapting to the new situation. A survey of freelance indexers who have participated in online CPD, together with the questionnaire responses of those involved in organizing and delivering these events, identifies good practice and shows that they have several advantages over face-to-face events. In some cases they are also filling a previously unmet need. There is no doubt that online events will become a permanent part of the mix of opportunities for professional development in a post-pandemic world. However, although they are effective as a means of conveying content, they simply cannot replicate the interaction and networking that happens when indexers spend time together. This is an equally important aspect of professional development and the resumption of face-to-face events is eagerly anticipated.","PeriodicalId":302236,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 39, Issue 2","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130917657","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":"‘Turn to the letter M’: index(ing) and the science of assorting in Marianne Moore’s Observations","authors":"Rebecca Bradburn","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2021.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2021.15","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Readers and critics rarely consider the end-pages of texts, skipping over the indexes and flyleaves in favour of the poems themselves, and the same is true of the poet-authored index to Marianne Moore’s 1924 Observations. To overlook Moore’s index, however, would be to (dis)miss its playful self-referentiality, the manner in which it works to simultaneously focus on, and distract from, the poems themselves. Taking Moore’s ‘Index’ to Observations as a starting point for thinking about both the poetry and the problematics of Moore’s indexical experiments, the article begins by asking how the process of reading Moore’s index might simultaneously inform and distort the experience of reading Observations itself, both for the reader and for Moore. In so doing, it considers the overlapping roles of reader and self-editor Moore that begins to play through the process of composing an index, revealing the manner in which (for reader and writer alike) the process of reading becomes one of selecting. Yet this process also becomes a process of dismantling and - implicitly - metonymizing, until the question becomes as follows: if poems are anatomized into a collection of constituent parts, can part lead back to whole? Far more than a marginal textual supplement, the index of Observations forms a fundamental, if ultimately abandoned, part of Moore’s poetic experimentation, and one that allows us to reconsider the trajectory of Moore’s poetic career.","PeriodicalId":302236,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 39, Issue 2","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129566807","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 translation of Fath al-Bari, a multi-volume Islamic classic","authors":"Ælfwine Mischler","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2021.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2021.17","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Hadith, the collected traditions of Prophet Muhammad, are the second source of Islamic law after the Qurʾan. The Sahih of al-Bukhari is the most authoritative collection of hadith in Sunni Islam, and Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar is one of the most important commentaries on the Sahih. While al-Bukhari has been available in English translation since 1971, Ibn Hajar is only being translated now. Ælfwine Mischler was asked to write multiple indexes for the translation of this multi-volume classic Islamic text. In this article, she describes the nature of Ibn Hajar’s work, some of the challenges in indexing it, and her solutions for writing both cumulative and single-volume indexes.","PeriodicalId":302236,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 39, Issue 2","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116933939","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}