The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3最新文献

{"title":"Software, hardware and the web: reviews","authors":"M. Macglashan, Frances S. Lennie, Bill Johncocks","doi":"10.3828/INDEXER.2006.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/INDEXER.2006.18","url":null,"abstract":"This review is based on the CD-ROM version, which contains the 140-page book as a PDF file, together with four Exercises and their answers as either PDFs or MS Word documents. The package is also downloadable from the Monarch website. Max McMaster is a hugely experienced professional indexer, but writing an indexing guide for technical communicators is a challenge for anyone. It requires a delicate balance between patronizing authors with too little, and boring them with too much, detail, while avoiding the opprobrium of fellow professionals for over-simplifying. Perhaps we’re even slightly uncomfortable, as a profession, with all attempts to instruct authors in our craft? But Mr McMaster’s fellow author, Sue Woolley, contributes her expertise in IT support and technical communications, and it’s good to be able to report not only that together they have avoided all three pitfalls, but that I was frequently delighted by the ease with which they reduced apparently complex topics to their essentials. The book’s layout is clear and attractive, the development is logical, and examples are ample and well chosen. I had problems resolving the finest detail in a few of the screenshots on my PC using Acrobat 6.0 Professional, but this had no significant effect on overall comprehensibility. The authors begin by stressing that indexes are a tool for the reader, explaining their access advantages over tables of contents and full-text searching, and urging the special importance of indexes to online help files. They then stress the importance both of planning indexes before embarking on them, and of editing them once they have been generated, before progressing to an overview of MS Word indexing (as the commonest and most widely available embedding system). There is a briefer section on using online help authoring packages. Their targets indeed seem chiefly to be manuals and online help text – both areas notoriously badly indexed in the past – and Mr McMaster well understands the need to index problems and tasks, not the relevant operations and options, in the latter. The book is full of sound common sense and excellent advice, sprinkled with some forthright assertion about indexing rights and wrongs, one or two of which might just raise the odd eyebrow, while the authors’ estimated times for indexing operations certainly made me swallow hard, but the former at least are exactly what their intended audience will be looking for. And yes, readers are urged in certain cases to seek outside professional help, rather than index their own work. Although concepts like set-out and run-on styles and embedded indexing receive passing mentions before being fully explained, this is presumably why the authors have provided a glossary (it includes all three). I found it slightly more confusing that the text instructions for inserting see and see also cross-references when embedding in MS Word are identical, and that the treatment of page spans doesn’t actually invoke the pr","PeriodicalId":406804,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132536638","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":"History and development of CINDEXTM","authors":"Frances S. Lennie","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In the April 2004 issue of The Indexer, Geraldine Beare interviewed Drusilla Calvert about the history and development of MACREX. Later that year I was asked by Maureen MacGlashan, as incoming Executive Editor of the journal, to write something similar about CINDEXTM. Although it is not in interview format I hope I have matched the order, coverage, and spirit of that earlier interview.","PeriodicalId":406804,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134124910","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":"‘The precious work’: from the correspondence between Oula Jones and Bernard Levin, 1981-1999","authors":"Oula Jones, B. Levin","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In 1981, an editor at Jonathan Cape commissioned Oula Jones to index Conducted tour by Bernard Levin. Bernard was pleased to allow all his subsequent books to be indexed by Oula, and a friendship sprang up between author and indexer resulting in a correspondence of almost 20 years. Here are a few extracts from it.","PeriodicalId":406804,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117143079","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":"Creating indexes for world atlases at HarperCollins Publishers","authors":"J. Irvine","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper describes the methods used in-house by HarperCollins Publishers to create indexes for some of the mostprestigious world atlases available today. The 14-stage process described has been developed by HarperCollins, and uses a mix of non-specialist software packages and applications developed in-house.","PeriodicalId":406804,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116431378","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 Roman imperialism","authors":"J. Richardson","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper is a brief account of a research project on the changing attitudes of the Roman upper classes to the emergence of the Roman Empire from the late third century BC to the early second century AD. The methodology consists of the examination of certain key words, their meaning and context, throughout the period, and the paper describes the way in which these data are collected and analysed.","PeriodicalId":406804,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114259322","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 law: a controlled vocabulary","authors":"Mark Scott","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Recent years have seen a proliferation of sources of information available to the lawyer. This article describes one publisher’s efforts to provide a more effective means of accessing information across the range of media available. It outlines the development of a controlled vocabulary and its application to both electronic and printed indexes.","PeriodicalId":406804,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117197410","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":"Capturing moving images online","authors":"Ann Cameron","doi":"10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2005.24.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000‘Archive Live’, the online catalogue from Scottish Screen Archive, brings the film and video material in Scotland’s National Moving Image Collection to life on the web. Designed to service the general public and the commercial programme maker, the catalogue is an essential reference tool, offering detailed information about moving images from 1895 to the present day. This article describes the planning and decision-making processes involved in actually getting the catalogue online, and provides a look at cataloguing and indexing practice in a film archive.","PeriodicalId":406804,"journal":{"name":"The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 24, Issue 3","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124303587","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}