The indexerPub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.3828/index.2024.5
Donald Howes
{"title":"Indexing Classic Mayan, Part 1","authors":"Donald Howes","doi":"10.3828/index.2024.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2024.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Classic Mayan language was written for approximately 2,000 years, from 300\u0000 bce\u0000 until around 1700\u0000 ce\u0000 in the Colonial period, but there is a lack of information on how to index names in any ancient Mesoamerican language. This series of articles aims to remedy that situation. In order to set Classic Mayan in context, an overview of contemporaneous hieroglyphic scripts is provided, followed by an exploration of the development and use of Classic Mayan from the Late Preclassic onward. An examination of its orthography focuses on those aspects that can affect indexing, including the Maya numbering system and calendrics. A future article will consider naming conventions, marriage and kinship patterns, and examples of Late Classic period inscriptions. Finally, useful reference material for the indexer working on Maya-related manuscripts will be provided.\u0000","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":"59 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141268609","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}
The indexerPub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.3828/index.2024.6
Stephen Ullstrom
{"title":"Writing about book indexing for the non-indexer: reflections of a novice author","authors":"Stephen Ullstrom","doi":"10.3828/index.2024.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2024.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Stephen Ullstrom reflects on his experience of self-publishing\u0000 Book indexing: a step-by-step guide\u0000 , which is primarily aimed at authors and the ‘index-curious’ rather than professional indexers. He explains his motivation for writing, the intricacies of the production process, its implications for his indexing business, and the benefits for his own professional practice.\u0000","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":"42 44","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141270384","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}
The indexerPub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.3828/index.2024.4
Martin Müller
{"title":"Content description at Springer Nature: how a publisher facilitates understanding through classification","authors":"Martin Müller","doi":"10.3828/index.2024.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2024.4","url":null,"abstract":"Springer Nature publishes over 3,000 journals covering science, technology, medicine and social sciences and thousands of new reference works, monographs, briefs, proceedings, textbooks and series every year, forming a broad range of different degrees of context. The Springer Nature Taxonomy (SN-T) serves as the controlled vocabulary used to describe this published content. This article initially illustrates how different contexts are captured through varying abstraction levels, highlighting the interpretive nature of abstraction. Consequently it describes the structure of the SN-T and Springer Nature’s classification strategy, and motivates the varying proportion of human versus machine contribution to this process.","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":"12 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141271547","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}
The indexerPub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.3828/index.2024.57
W. Greulich
{"title":"Indexing with Excel, Part 4. Conversions 2","authors":"W. Greulich","doi":"10.3828/index.2024.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2024.57","url":null,"abstract":"The first two articles in this series explained how Excel can be set up for indexing and how checks can be done using Excel. The third article gave an overview of how to transfer data from a dedicated indexing program (DIP) or an embedded indexing program like Word into Excel data. The current article examines the conversion process further by explaining how to convert an index from a digital format into Excel.","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":"56 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141269141","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}
The indexerPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.3828/index.2023.52
{"title":"Important notice: distribution of\u0000 The Indexer","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/index.2023.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.52","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":"112 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140091071","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}