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...
Hi Lori, Do you mean you index the books about RPGs? Which ones? My son is a keen D&D player, and created, for his own interest, indexes to some Dragon ...
Yeah, I'm lucky that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has an excellent School of Library and Information Sciences, which is where I checked out the book....
Lori, The list that Heather has referred you to on the SIG web site is very useful. I particularly recommend to you the book by Glenda Browne and Jon Jermey...
I also recommend Heather's online web indexing courses: http://www.hedden-information.com/courses-website-indexing.htm ... On ... thing. ... -- Barbara ...
Hi Lori, Welcome to our home on the web. I wish you success in building your indexing business. Yes, heather's course is a great start for web indexing; I...
Happy New Year, all. Here's what's planned for web site indexing workshops for 2007: First of all, the web indexing freeware XRefHT is now available in a Java...
If a company askes you to do a regular book index and embedding of the manuscript what do you charge? Jeannine [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Hi everyone, We have had a couple of new members joined us in the last few days. Please let us welcome them and ask that they introduce themselves. Tell us a...
We've had a number of new people join this list who are students in one or more MLIS (Masters of Library and Information Science) degree programs. If any of...
See: http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/ There is a new toolkit project starting to allow programmers who write software in Java or C/C++ or other languages like...
Hi- I'm currently a librarian and am considering a career change to a home-based business and have been researching indexing as a possibility - both print and...
Hi Rob We've spoken before, but I thought I'd reply to your email anyway. I'm a freelance indexer, living in Auckland. I have enough work to keep me going ...
... A question on the minds of most indexers these days. My opinion: print indexes will be around for a long time, but the market is changing. Indexers are...
Hi Rob, I think there is little work for website indexers, and the work that there is is so dispersed that it is hard to market to the clients who would use...
Hi Rob, I indexed in house before I went freelance but I have had no shortage of work after my first year. My experience is that the world of indexing is...
I just wanted to thank everybody for their responses to my question about freelance indexing (web based and print) as a home-based business. Overall, a little ...
I've combined freelance indexing with freelance taxonomy/controlled vocabulary work. Not so much to "make ends meet" (I'm sure I could make a living just...
Hi Rob, I'd hate to put you off...I think indexing as a whole is a terrific career, but certainly not a secure one. My experience is that there is a lot more...
Dear Heather and SIG members, I am certainly open to discussing increasing the scope of our SIG. It may make sense for us since just in the past year two major...
I have been working with Factiva and know that I am definitley doing embedded indexing. I'm not quite sure whether the curriculum standards I indexed for them ...
Indexing in Gale's system (which its contractors may use over the web) is considered database indexing, not embedded indexing. Database indexing is done for...
Hi Sara, I am sorry to be responding so late but have been swamped. Just this week someone, lecturer at the University of the West Indies asked me about XML ...
... BTW, for those interested, WordEmbed can now be purchased at <http://www.jalamb.com/wordembed.html>, (rather than the address posted to this list last...
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