I spent the last 2 days at the inaugural Information Architecture retreat and conference in Sydney, and thought people might be interested to hear how it went....
Hi Glenda, Thanks for sharing with us how this conference went. That's great that you were able to participate and give a presentation about web site indexes...
If anyone considering attending the IA Summit in Las Vegas 22-26 March, 2007, would be interested in giving a how-to presentation (about 45 minutes) on web...
The deadline is approaching to register for the next session of the 4-week online workshop "Creating Website Indexes," offered though the Continuing Education...
Hi Heather, Will the registered participants receive further notice on when the workshop goes "live"? I suppose this notice would include sign-on information...
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If you are new to web indexing and what to promote yourself, consider giving a poster presentation at the American Society of Indexers conference May 23-27 in...
Heather- I could do a poster about Metadate indexing techniques or management using FileMaker Pro 8 and 8.5. Which a lot of libraries are using . And I'm ...
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Hi Jeannine, I'm pleased to hear your interest. The ASI site recommends reading guidelines for creating poster sessions on the web site of Colorado State...
You can create web site indexes on a Mac now. The freeware XRefHT32 is now also available in a Java 2 version. The XRefHT Java version can run on any platform,...
The Web Indexing SIG web site has a new link to a recently published article on web site indexing: "Web Indexing: Extending the Fuctionality of HTML Indexer"...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to my American colleagues. Although we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Jamaica, I'm thankful for you all. Jessica Jessica McCurdy Crooks ...
Hi James, Thanks for your quick answers. I have downloaded the latest (September) version, and I noticed the Sort keys option. It's not obvious, though, how to...
Sharepoint is portal software which means all the pages are generated not hand-written. You will need to read the manual or explore the admin console help...
This announcement is being posted to several lists; please forgive duplication. The next Macrex workshop will be held March 24-25, 2007 at the Best Western...
... With a normal CMS (Content Management System) the address to a particular page might be /index.php?id=247 which would call a php program and tell it to...
The American Society of Indexers/Information Today Inc. will be publishing another book in its series of indexing specialties, entitled /Indexing Specialties:...
Heather, I would love to index the book. In fact I just reviewed Lamb's book on the same subject for STC's journal. I do use Cindex so that won't be a problem....
Thank you to those who responded to index this book to be published by the American Society of Indexers. The ASI Publications Chair has selected Linda Kenny...
The guts of it is if the site is modified you will have to reindex the pages again. This is the same as if a book was republished with chapters removed or...
ECMA has made a standard Microsoft's Open XML Format in competition to Open Document Format. This means all documents in Microsoft Office 2007 will be in XML...
... The insertion of keywords into pages is part of HTML, not part of the portal functionality. Storage of index terms as keywords in the HTML header is...
No, the pages in a portal do not change every day. They are stable to a point. However because the pages are not generated by hand or static they are prone to...
Hello Dwight, Thank you for taking the time to respond to these questions. I am not trying to build any case, or show that manual indexes are better than...
I invented the idea of having human created Web indexes way back. If others have saved their Web indexes in the headers so be it. If there are tools that do...
When James said the external kind of indexes were all there were and that meta tags were not good as they stuffed up the retrieval, I found these: Wiki -...
... I don't know what Dwight is referring to here, but I certainly said nothing, remotely like either of these statements and I am offended by the suggestion...
Happy New Year! The Web Indexing SIG affiliated with this discussion group (www.web-indexing.org) starts off the new year with a new manager. Jessica McCurdy...
Happy New Year! May 2007 bring lots of successes. Thank you, Heather for your introduction; I no good at such things.. I would love to see this discussion...
Hello, my name is Lori Ann Curley, and I'm an indexer. [Hi, Lori!] I started taking the USDA in 2003, and I finished it in 2005. I index primarily roleplaying...
Hi Lori, That's good that you were able to get the ASI book "Beyond Book Indexing" from a library. The ASI indexing books are not extremely well distributed in...