The Classic Mayan language was written for approximately 2,000 years, from 300 bce until around 1700 ce 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.
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Stephen Ullstrom reflects on his experience of self-publishing Book indexing: a step-by-step guide , 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.
Stephen Ullstrom 回顾了他自费出版《图书索引：分步指南》的经历，该书主要面向作者和 "索引好奇者"，而非专业索引编制者。他解释了自己的写作动机、制作过程的复杂性、对其索引业务的影响以及对自己专业实践的益处。
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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.
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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 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.
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
Some projects have a life of their own, and in this case study Ronnie Seagren presents the experience of a straightforward book indexing project that grew into its own saga, including editing and work with a hybrid publisher. She was asked to index an important medieval Tamil epic story that was both obscure and out of print. This republishing journey took two and a half years. The index had to meet the needs of several very different audiences: Tamil scholars, students comparing epic stories, and a general public just wanting to learn something about South Asian folk culture. Indexing a work of fiction poses specific indexing dilemmas. Working with a small hybrid publisher, where the author bore all of the costs of publishing, posed many more. The project was very specific, but it has implications for indexing both fiction and self-published books.
{"title":"A linked index for an oral Tamil folk epic: a case study","authors":"Ronnie Seagren","doi":"10.3828/index.2023.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.55","url":null,"abstract":"Some projects have a life of their own, and in this case study Ronnie Seagren presents the experience of a straightforward book indexing project that grew into its own saga, including editing and work with a hybrid publisher. She was asked to index an important medieval Tamil epic story that was both obscure and out of print. This republishing journey took two and a half years. The index had to meet the needs of several very different audiences: Tamil scholars, students comparing epic stories, and a general public just wanting to learn something about South Asian folk culture. Indexing a work of fiction poses specific indexing dilemmas. Working with a small hybrid publisher, where the author bore all of the costs of publishing, posed many more. The project was very specific, but it has implications for indexing both fiction and self-published books.","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140085696","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}
There is much to enjoy about composing indexes to books on music, but they can present a suite of different challenges. In this article, based on her presentation to the 2023 conference of the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI), Paula Clarke Bain shares her experience and tips on indexing several types of musical books, including scholarly works on classical music, and trade biographies/memoirs of contemporary pop/rock stars, offering insight into how to fine-tune your practice when indexing such materials.
{"title":"A melodic interlude: key notes for indexing books about music","authors":"Paula Clarke Bain","doi":"10.3828/index.2023.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.53","url":null,"abstract":"There is much to enjoy about composing indexes to books on music, but they can present a suite of different challenges. In this article, based on her presentation to the 2023 conference of the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI), Paula Clarke Bain shares her experience and tips on indexing several types of musical books, including scholarly works on classical music, and trade biographies/memoirs of contemporary pop/rock stars, offering insight into how to fine-tune your practice when indexing such materials.","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140088491","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":"Link to the Full Issue","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/index.2023.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.65","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83061,"journal":{"name":"The indexer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140089619","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}
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