========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 14:00:50 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "John L. Hughes" Subject: More magic from computers! ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I couldn't help passing this on from the Gannett Suburban Newspapers' Time Is Money column. (This is abbreviated copy; not full text.) ==BEGIN TIME IS MONEY== Indexicon aids PC users Most indexing products now on the market require the user to go through the tedious process of reviewing documents line by line and marking index entries manually. Iconovex Corp., a Bloomington, Minn.-based creator of software programs, has introduced Indexicon. This program "reads" the user's document, locates the significant terms and phrases and automatically generates a back-of-the-book style index just by clicking the computer's mouse. According to the manufacturer, Indexicon actually understands the subtleties of the English language and can locate significant terms in a document and then present the user with a professional looking index. Indexicon retails at approximately $149.99. A DOS-based version will be available in the near future. For information, write Iconovex Corp., 7448 West 78th St., Bloomington, Minn. 55439 or call 800-943-0292. ==END TIME IS MONEY== I don't know about anyone else, but I love the part about, "Indexicon actually understands the subtleties of the English language and can locate significant terms in a document and then present the user with a professional looking index." This I gotta see! John Hughes ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 14:01:05 ECT Reply-To: ntriffin@lawlib.Law.Pace.Edu Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Nick Triffin Organization: Pace University Law Library Subject: Thesaurus software ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am brand new on this list and hope this is not a request that has been done to death already. Pace Law School is planning a project to assemble international commercial law treaties and cases on an internet database. Part of the project entails the creation of a thesaurus (at first just in English, but later to incorporate some foreign language terms too) to assist in retrieving relevant material. Starting from a nucleus, the thesaurus will have to be expanded and modified "on-the-fly" as new materials come in. Do any members of this list have experience using thesaurus creation software packages such as Lexico, Bibliotech Thesaurus Module, the Liu-Palmer Thesaurus Construction System, or others? If so, could you share with me some of your experiences using them? Are some better than others for thesauri that may expand to multiple language terms? Although I have done some indexing, thesauri are new to me. Can anyone give me advice on things to read or do before engaging in this venture? Or should I just have my head examined? :-) TIA ================================================== Internet: NTRIFFIN@LAWLIB.LAW.PACE.EDU :-) ;-) Nick Triffin Tel: (914) 422-4275 |-) Pace Law Library Fax: (914) 422-4139 ;-) 78 North Broadway %-) White Plains, NY 10603 ;-) ================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 11:50:05 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster Subject: Western New York Chapter of ASI Mark your calendars: The Western New York Chapter will meet on Saturday, October 22 at 10:30am at the Sherwood Inn in Skaneatles NY. Agenda and lunch information will be posted soon....watch this space. Charlotte Skuster WNY-ASI Secretary ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 13:42:30 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster Subject: FAQ (change in correspondence course info.) INDEX-L FAQ Contents: 1. Index-l procedures 2. Archives 3. Books on indexing 4. What has been written about automatic indexing? 5. What software do indexers use? 6. Courses or training for indexers (outside of library schools)? 7. Professional societies/organizations for indexers? 8. Network connections 9. Winners of the ASI/H.W. Wilson Company Award for Indexing 1. INDEX-L PROCEDURES There are three addresses you need to use for interaction with index-l: To take part in a discussion or send a message to the list (a.k.a. group or subscribers), address your e-mail to Index- l@bingvmb.bitnet or index-l@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu To send a message directly to the moderator (a.k.a. Charlotte), address your e-mail to Skuster@bingvmb.bitnet or Skuster@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu To send a command to the listserv, address your e-mail to listserv@bingvmb.bitnet or listserv@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu. As subscribers, you are able to send commands to the listserv to see the archives, see a list of subscribers, stop your mail for a while, or a number of other options. To get a list of listserv commands and what they do, send the following message to the listserv: INFO REFCARD Do not sign your name or put anything else in the message. 2. ARCHIVES There are two ways to look at the archives: ---Received directly from the listserv@bingvmb Send the following message to the listserv: index index-l. You will receive a list of available archives--monthly, for those prior to June 1994 and weekly thereafter. When you decide what you would like to see, send the following message to the listserv: get log9406B (for the second week in June, for example) ---On the library gopher at Georgia Southern University: Messages are stored here from the start of the listserv in 1992 through July 1994. A WAIS searching program is available to searchthrough all years at once or through a selected year. The GSU gopher is located through a gopher client at informer.cc.gasou.edu or by telnet to gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu, login info. When you reach the gopher take this directory path: /Georgia Southern University/Henderson Library/Assistance to Professional.../Index-L 3. BOOKS ON INDEXING? Bonura, L. The Art of Indexing. Wiley, 1994 Knight, G. N. Indexing, The Art Of. Allen & Unwin, 1979. Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice. U of Illinois Press, 1991. Lancaster, F. W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval, 2nd ed. Information resources Press, 1986 Mulvany, Nancy C. Indexing Books, University of Chicago Press, 1994. Wellisch, H. Indexing and Abstracting, an International Bibliography ABC-Clio, 1980. Wellisch, H. Indexing from A to Z. H. W. Wilson, 1991. 4. WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT AUTOMATIC INDEXING? Books: Salton and McGill Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval Salton, Automatic Text Processing Van Rijsbergen Information Retrieval Jones, Karen Spark Information Retrieval Experiment Papers: Bell, C. and Jones, K. "Back-of-the-book Indexing: A Case for the Application of Artificial Intelligence", Informatics 5, ASLIB Pub., pp. 155-161, 1979 Bennion, B. "Performance Testing of a Book and its Index as an Information Retrieval System", JASIS, pp. 265-270, July 1970 Borko, H. "Experiments in Book Indexing by Computer" Information Storage and Retrieval, 6:5)16, 1970 Dillon, M. and McDonald, J. "Fully Automatic Book Indexing" Journal of Documentation 39(1):135-154, 1983 Dion, M. Thesaurus-Based Automatic Book Indexing", Information Processing and Management, 81(4):167-178, 1982 Salton, G. "Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing", Proceedings of the 26th ACL, pp. 204-210, 1988 5. WHAT SOFTWARE DO INDEXERS USE? (All of these are for DOS machines...no Macs) IN>SORT Kensa Software P.O. Box 4415 Northbrook, IL 60065 (708) 559-0297 Macrex Bayside Indexing Service P.O. Box 3051 Daly City, CA 95015-0051 (415) 756-0821 FAX: (415) 757-1567 Cindex Indexing Research Box 18609 Rochester, New (716) 461-5530 FAX: (716) 442-3924 6. COURSES OR TRAINING FOR INDEXERS (OUTSIDE OF LIBRARY SCHOOLS)? Graduate School of the USDA Correspondence Programs, Ag Box 9911 Room 1114, South Agriculture Building 14th St. and Independence Ave. SW Washington, DC 20250 (202) 720-7123 TDD: (202) 690-1516 Tuition: (includes all materials) $281,00--Basic Indexing (beginning) $275.00--Applied Indexing (more advanced) 7. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS FOR INDEXERS? (this question was not actually asked..but here's the answer anyway) American Society of Indexers (ASI) P.O. Box 386 Port Aransas TX 78373 (512) 749-4052 FAX: (512) 749-6334 E-Mail: asi@well.sf.ca.us Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada Box 744 Station F Toronto Ontario Canada M4Y 2N6 National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut Street Suite 307 Philadelphia PA 19102-3403 (215) 893-1561 FAX: (215) 893-1564 E-MAIL: nfais@hslc.org Society of Indexers (SI) 16 Green Road Birchington, England CT79JZ Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI) GPO Box 1251L, Melbourne Victoria 3001, Australia 8. NETWORK CONNECTIONS America Online (800) 227-6364 CompuServe (800) 848-8199 Delphi (800) 495-4005 GEnie (800) 638-9636 The Well (415) 332-4335 Real/Time Communications (512) 459-4391 See also. Maren, M. "The Age of E-Mail. Home Office Computing, December, 1993, 63-70. Tetzeli, R. "Is Going On-line Worth the Money?" FORTUNE 129(12):104-105, 108. June 13, 1994. 9. WINNERS OF THE ASI/H.W. WILSON COMPANY AWARD FOR INDEXING 1979--Hans H. Wellisch, author and indexer; John Wiley, publisher: The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and Utilization 1980--Linda I. Solow, indexer; M.I.T. Press, publisher: Beyond Orpheus:Studies in Musical Structures. 1981--Delight Ansley, indexer; Random House Publisher: Cosmos by Carl Sagan, 1982--Catherine Fix, indexer; Wm. Saunders Company, publisher: Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Disorders. 1983--Award not given. 1984--Trish Yancey, indexer; Information Handling Services, publisher: Index and Directory of U.S. Industry Standards 1985--Sydney W. Cohen, indexer; Random House, publisher: The Experts Speak by Cerf and Navasky. 1986--Marjorie Hyslop, indexer; American Society for Metals, publisher: Metals Handbook. 1987--Award not given. 1988--Jeanne Moody, indexer; National Wildlife Institute, publisher: Raptor Management Techniques. 1989--Philip James, indexer; Butterworths, publisher: Medicine for the Practicing Physician, 2nd ed.. 1990--Marcia Carlson, indexer; Cornell University Press, publisher: Strategic Nuclear Arms & Arms Control Debates. 1991--Daniels, Nancy L., indexer; Van Nostrand Reinhold, publisher:Beyond Public Architecture: Strategies for Design Evaluation. 1992--Johnson, Rachel Jo., indexer; Matthew Bender, publisher: American Law of Real Property. 1993--Award not given. 1994--Deminna, Patricia, indexer; U. of California, publisher: Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture by Daniel Boyarin ================================================ Charlotte Skuster Health Sciences Bibliographer Binghamton University Libraries tel: (607) 777-4122 fax: (607) 777-2274 cskuster@library.lib.binghamton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 09:25:03 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Mrowland@aol.com Subject: Mass. Indexers Fall Meeting ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Fall Meeting of the Massachusetts Indexers' Group will focus on indexing quality. Beginning and experienced indexers alike are encouraged to participate in an indexing exercise as a basis for talking about elements and characteristics of good indexing.. Comparing Indexing Styles and Approaches Saturday, October 15, 1994 1 to 5 pm Bunker Hill Community College Building E, Room 175 Charlestown, MA fee: $5 per person Agenda: 1 pm "The Horribles Parade" As an introduction to our indexing exercise, Rosemary Simpson presents an analysis of a set of bad indexes (not prepared for this exercise). Rosemary Simpson is president of Indexing Unlimited, which provides technical indexing and hypertexts for the computer industry. She has worked as a programmer, writer, and indexer since 1967, and currently teaches a one-day workshop on technical indexing in association with Editorial Services of New England. 2 pm Discussion of indexes prepared for this meeting (see below), facilitated by a panel of experienced indexers: Ann Blum, Tim Rosa, and Rosemary Simpson. It is recommended that attendees prepare a sample index (as outlined below) for this session, but it is not required. 4 pm The Massachusetts Indexers' Group: Continued discussion of the goals, plans and activities of this organization. Marilyn Rowland and Ann Blum will lead the discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Index Review and Comparison: Exercise Instructions Prior to the meeting, please prepare an index of the following article: Smithsonian, October 1993 Dusk and dawn are rush hours on the coral reef This issue of the magazine should be available in most public libraries. Starting on Page 104 is an nteresting, slightly technical, highly readable, article on the fauna of a coral reef and the changes that life on the reef undergoes during the transition from day to night and back again. Please treat index this article as if it were the first job you were doing for a new client who knew very little about indexing, but believed in paying top dollar and had a lot more regular work to offer. Three experienced indexers will review the indexes and discuss them at the October 15 meeting.To have your index reviewed, please make 5 copies (one for each reviewer, one for display, and one for yourself). Copies must be mailed no later than October 6 to allow reviewers time to review them. Please contact Marilyn Rowland at Mrowland@aol.com or (508) 548-1963 for more information about how to participate. This exercise is intended for people who will be attending the meeting. Analysis of individual indexes will be provided only at the meeting. Marilyn Rowland Massachusetts Indexers'Group Mrowland@aol.com (508) 548-1963 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 13:42:30 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster Subject: FAQ (change in correspondence course info.) INDEX-L FAQ Contents: 1. Index-l procedures 2. Archives 3. Books on indexing 4. What has been written about automatic indexing? 5. What software do indexers use? 6. Courses or training for indexers (outside of library schools)? 7. Professional societies/organizations for indexers? 8. Network connections 9. Winners of the ASI/H.W. Wilson Company Award for Indexing 1. INDEX-L PROCEDURES There are three addresses you need to use for interaction with index-l: To take part in a discussion or send a message to the list (a.k.a. group or subscribers), address your e-mail to Index- l@bingvmb.bitnet or index-l@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu To send a message directly to the moderator (a.k.a. Charlotte), address your e-mail to Skuster@bingvmb.bitnet or Skuster@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu To send a command to the listserv, address your e-mail to listserv@bingvmb.bitnet or listserv@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu. As subscribers, you are able to send commands to the listserv to see the archives, see a list of subscribers, stop your mail for a while, or a number of other options. To get a list of listserv commands and what they do, send the following message to the listserv: INFO REFCARD Do not sign your name or put anything else in the message. 2. ARCHIVES There are two ways to look at the archives: ---Received directly from the listserv@bingvmb Send the following message to the listserv: index index-l. You will receive a list of available archives--monthly, for those prior to June 1994 and weekly thereafter. When you decide what you would like to see, send the following message to the listserv: get log9406B (for the second week in June, for example) ---On the library gopher at Georgia Southern University: Messages are stored here from the start of the listserv in 1992 through July 1994. A WAIS searching program is available to searchthrough all years at once or through a selected year. The GSU gopher is located through a gopher client at informer.cc.gasou.edu or by telnet to gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu, login info. When you reach the gopher take this directory path: /Georgia Southern University/Henderson Library/Assistance to Professional.../Index-L 3. BOOKS ON INDEXING? Bonura, L. The Art of Indexing. Wiley, 1994 Knight, G. N. Indexing, The Art Of. Allen & Unwin, 1979. Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice. U of Illinois Press, 1991. Lancaster, F. W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval, 2nd ed. Information resources Press, 1986 Mulvany, Nancy C. Indexing Books, University of Chicago Press, 1994. Wellisch, H. Indexing and Abstracting, an International Bibliography ABC-Clio, 1980. Wellisch, H. Indexing from A to Z. H. W. Wilson, 1991. 4. WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT AUTOMATIC INDEXING? Books: Salton and McGill Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval Salton, Automatic Text Processing Van Rijsbergen Information Retrieval Jones, Karen Spark Information Retrieval Experiment Papers: Bell, C. and Jones, K. "Back-of-the-book Indexing: A Case for the Application of Artificial Intelligence", Informatics 5, ASLIB Pub., pp. 155-161, 1979 Bennion, B. "Performance Testing of a Book and its Index as an Information Retrieval System", JASIS, pp. 265-270, July 1970 Borko, H. "Experiments in Book Indexing by Computer" Information Storage and Retrieval, 6:5)16, 1970 Dillon, M. and McDonald, J. "Fully Automatic Book Indexing" Journal of Documentation 39(1):135-154, 1983 Dion, M. Thesaurus-Based Automatic Book Indexing", Information Processing and Management, 81(4):167-178, 1982 Salton, G. "Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing", Proceedings of the 26th ACL, pp. 204-210, 1988 5. WHAT SOFTWARE DO INDEXERS USE? (All of these are for DOS machines...no Macs) IN>SORT Kensa Software P.O. Box 4415 Northbrook, IL 60065 (708) 559-0297 Macrex Bayside Indexing Service P.O. Box 3051 Daly City, CA 95015-0051 (415) 756-0821 FAX: (415) 757-1567 Cindex Indexing Research Box 18609 Rochester, New (716) 461-5530 FAX: (716) 442-3924 6. COURSES OR TRAINING FOR INDEXERS (OUTSIDE OF LIBRARY SCHOOLS)? Graduate School of the USDA Correspondence Programs, Ag Box 9911 Room 1114, South Agriculture Building 14th St. and Independence Ave. SW Washington, DC 20250 (202) 720-7123 TDD: (202) 690-1516 Tuition: (includes all materials) $281,00--Basic Indexing (beginning) $275.00--Applied Indexing (more advanced) 7. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS FOR INDEXERS? (this question was not actually asked..but here's the answer anyway) American Society of Indexers (ASI) P.O. Box 386 Port Aransas TX 78373 (512) 749-4052 FAX: (512) 749-6334 E-Mail: asi@well.sf.ca.us Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada Box 744 Station F Toronto Ontario Canada M4Y 2N6 National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut Street Suite 307 Philadelphia PA 19102-3403 (215) 893-1561 FAX: (215) 893-1564 E-MAIL: nfais@hslc.org Society of Indexers (SI) 16 Green Road Birchington, England CT79JZ Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI) GPO Box 1251L, Melbourne Victoria 3001, Australia 8. NETWORK CONNECTIONS America Online (800) 227-6364 CompuServe (800) 848-8199 Delphi (800) 495-4005 GEnie (800) 638-9636 The Well (415) 332-4335 Real/Time Communications (512) 459-4391 See also. Maren, M. "The Age of E-Mail. Home Office Computing, December, 1993, 63-70. Tetzeli, R. "Is Going On-line Worth the Money?" FORTUNE 129(12):104-105, 108. June 13, 1994. 9. WINNERS OF THE ASI/H.W. WILSON COMPANY AWARD FOR INDEXING 1979--Hans H. Wellisch, author and indexer; John Wiley, publisher: The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and Utilization 1980--Linda I. Solow, indexer; M.I.T. Press, publisher: Beyond Orpheus:Studies in Musical Structures. 1981--Delight Ansley, indexer; Random House Publisher: Cosmos by Carl Sagan, 1982--Catherine Fix, indexer; Wm. Saunders Company, publisher: Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Disorders. 1983--Award not given. 1984--Trish Yancey, indexer; Information Handling Services, publisher: Index and Directory of U.S. Industry Standards 1985--Sydney W. Cohen, indexer; Random House, publisher: The Experts Speak by Cerf and Navasky. 1986--Marjorie Hyslop, indexer; American Society for Metals, publisher: Metals Handbook. 1987--Award not given. 1988--Jeanne Moody, indexer; National Wildlife Institute, publisher: Raptor Management Techniques. 1989--Philip James, indexer; Butterworths, publisher: Medicine for the Practicing Physician, 2nd ed.. 1990--Marcia Carlson, indexer; Cornell University Press, publisher: Strategic Nuclear Arms & Arms Control Debates. 1991--Daniels, Nancy L., indexer; Van Nostrand Reinhold, publisher:Beyond Public Architecture: Strategies for Design Evaluation. 1992--Johnson, Rachel Jo., indexer; Matthew Bender, publisher: American Law of Real Property. 1993--Award not given. 1994--Deminna, Patricia, indexer; U. of California, publisher: Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture by Daniel Boyarin ================================================ Charlotte Skuster Health Sciences Bibliographer Binghamton University Libraries tel: (607) 777-4122 fax: (607) 777-2274 cskuster@library.lib.binghamton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 09:40:49 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Michele Berkes 615-576-2352 Subject: PCOC 18 -- Nov. 3 and 4 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 18th Annual Practical Conference on Communication Society for Technical Communication, East Tennessee Chapter Nov. 3-4, 1994, Oak Ridge, Tennessee The East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication invites you to attend the 18th Annual Practical Conference on Communication (PCOC 18). In addition to the presentations and workshops described in the final program below, PCOC 18 registration includes a complimentary copy of the conference proceedings and refreshments at each scheduled break. Full (2-day) registration also includes a buffet dinner on Thursday evening (for details, see below) and lunch on Friday. Thursday-only registration also includes the dinner on Thursday; Friday-only registration includes the luncheon. Registration cost for the full conference is $110 for non-STC members and $100 for STC members. Single-day registration is $80 for members and non-members. For complete registration information, contact Michael Morrison Conference Manager East Tennessee Chapter Society for Technical Communication P.O. Box 5556 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 phone: 615-483-6195 e-mail: mmorrisn@utkvx.utk.edu ********************************************************************** Final Program 18th Annual Practical Conference on Communication Society for Technical Communication, East Tennessee Chapter Nov. 3-4, 1994, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Thursday, Nov. 3 8:00-8:30 Registration (Foyer, Pollard Auditorium) 8:30-8:45 Convocation (Room A) Welcome and Introductions, Mark Hanigan, STC Region 3 Director-Sponsor Business Announcements, Fred O'Hara, PCOC-18 Program Manager 8:45-9:45 Keynote Address (Room A) O Brave New Media: How to Avoid Becoming Roadkill on the Information Superhighway Bill Horton, Private Consultant, Boulder, Colo. 9:45-10:00 Break 10:00-11:30 Panel on Medical Communications (Room A) How Medical Writers Can Communicate More Effectively: A Readability Analysis of Selected Medical Journals Amy L. Burdan, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fla. Issues in Translation of Medical Terminology Clove Lynch, Private Consultant, Kent, Ohio, and Brenda Rudder, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, N.C. Using Richard Selzer and Oliver Sacks to Teach Style in the Medical Writing Course Ron Nelson, James Mason University, Harrisonburg, Va. Anatomy of a Book Eric Bergman, SAIC, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Workshop (Room B) Internationalization and Translatability David Kumhyr, Carla Merrill, and Karin Spalink, Internationalization and Translation Services, Durham, N.C. Panel on Textual and Visual Communication (Room C) Improving Technical Proposals Brett D. Ayotte, NUS, Clearwater, Fla. The Value of Meeting Minutes to a Technical Program: Some Preparation Guidelines Burton J. Alexander, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Md. Task-Oriented Documentation and the Decade of the User Lori J. Sawicki, Private Consultant, Ann Arbor, Mich. 11:30-1:00 Lunch on your own 1:00-2:30 Panel on Management (Room A) Managing the Monster; Managing the Zoo Dan Wise, Wise Words, Birmingham, Ala. Managing Your Documentation Monster Judy Glick-Smith and Karen Steele, Integrated Documentation, Garland, Tex. Using Desktop Publishing to Automate Frequently Revised Documents Judith M. Pearson, Tennessee Valley Authority, Sequoyah Training Center, Soddy-Daisy, Tenn. Presentation/Workshop on Indexing (Room B) Computer-Assisted Indexing Tutor Holly Berry Irving, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Md. Index Evaluation Workshop Lori Lathrop, Lathrop Media Services, Georgetown, Colo. Panel on Education in Technical Communication (Room C) Case Work for Technical Writing Students Ed Hara, Oakland Community College, West Bloomfield, Mich. Certificate Programs in Technical Communication Thomas Brownell, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Mich. Mercer University's Graduate Certificate in Interactive Multimedia David C. Leonard, Mercer University, Atlanta, Ga. Learning and Teaching Through Faculty Internships in Technical Communication Russel Hirst, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 2:30-3:00 Break 3:00-4:45 Panel/Workshop on Employment Opportunities (Room B) The Part-Time Technical Writer: A Myriad of Opportunities Jodie Gilmore, Freelance Technical Writer, Lamont, Fla. Managing Your Career Gena Belcher, Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, Ga. Track That New Job Bruce D. Sechrist, NIRSystems, Silver Springs, Md. 3:00-4:00 Workshop (Room A) Graphic Design for Writers Dana Michaels, Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis. Workshop (Room C) Creating a Synergistic Writing Team ... When the Team Members Are Nonwriters Diana Penning, The Computer Group, Columbia, S.C., and Lisa Pappas, PDR Automated Systems and Publications, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 4:00-4:30 Discussion Session (Room A) Reports on Special Technical-Communication Conferences 5:00-10:00 Evening Entertainment: Dinner at the American Museum of Science and Energy, viewing of the museum exhibits, and a screening of the winners of the International Technical Video Competition Friday, Nov. 4 8:00-8:15 Registration 8:15-8:30 Business Announcements, Fred O'Hara, PCOC-18 Program Manager 8:30-9:30 Keynote Address (Room A) Enterprise Multimedia Barry Hudson, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, S.C. 9:30-10:00 Break 10:00-11:30 Panel on Issues in Electronic Publishing (Room A) Making Computer-Mediated Communication Useful as a Democratic Medium Marilyn R. P. Morgan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. After Words: A Rhetoric of Multimedia Communication Gary Heba, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Internet Access for STC/ETC F. M. O'Hara, Jr., Private Consultant, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Ann Wilson Buttram, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Workshop (Room B) Designing Online Documents According to User Functions Randy M. Brooks, Millikin University, Decatur, Ill. Workshop (Room C) Strategy or SNAFU? The Virtues and Vulnerabilities of SGML George Hayhoe, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, S.C. 11:30-1:00 Lunch Provided at the Garden Plaza 1:00-2:30 Panel on Electronic Authoring (Room A) How to Use the WWW to Distribute Scientific and Technical Information Donna G. Roper, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. Converting Hard Copy Documents for Electronic Dissemination Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Six Steps to Creating Effective Documents Using SGML Rhonda S. Lunemann, Unisys Corporation, Roseville, Minn. Criteria for Choosing Information Retrieval Engines for CD-ROM Titles Barry Hudson, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, S.C. Workshop (Room B) Electronic Publishing with WinHelp, Part 1 Jack DeLand, Adam Charles Consulting, Ypsilanti, Mich. Workshop (Room C) Leadership Workshop Mark Hanigan, STC Region 3 Director-Sponsor, Tampa, Fla. 2:30-3:00 Break 3:00-4:00 Workshop (Room A) Drive-In Hypertext Linda Stewart, Federal Aviation Administration, Oklahoma City, Okla. Workshop (Room B) Electronic Publishing with WinHelp, Part 2 Jack DeLand, Adam Charles Consulting, Ypsilanti, Mich. Workshop (Room C) Concept Maps: A New Visual Communication Strategy Fred Burggraf, Documentation and Communication Specialist, Charlotte Hall, Md. 4:00-4:30 Discussion Session (Room A) Special Technical-Communication Books 4:30 Adjournment ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 09:44:06 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Carol Roberts Subject: Dates in index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hi, y'all. I'm indexing a book that focuses on the different periods of Wittgenstein's writings; it's very common to compare his early writings with his later writings. So it seems appropriate to have the different periods as main entries (to capture all the general comments about each period) with _See also_ references to specific works, as follows: Early writings. See also _Tractatus_ mathematics, 43 ordinary language, 16, 152 My only problem is that the third period discussed is a particular year, 1929. I'm inclined to have the main entry "1929 writings" (but without the quotes) and put it before the A's. If it matters (and it always seems to), the audience for this book will almost exclusively be Wittgenstein scholars. I would welcome any comments on my scheme, other ways of doing it, etc. Should I include this sort of cross-reference? Writings. _See_ 1929 writings; Early writings; Later writings Do I also need an entry like the following, in case scholars will look this up by what was happening in Wittgenstein's life at the time, rather than by year? Cambridge, writings after returning to. _See_ 1929 writings; Later writings (LW scholars may well look up Cambridge, knowing LW's return there to be a pivotal point in his writing.) Please holler is this approach is totally wrongheaded. Thanks, everybody. Cheers, Carol Roberts, indexer and copy editor, e-mail: Carol.Roberts@mixcom.com "There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way." --Christopher Morley ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 09:44:24 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: REBAZAC@FIRNVX.BITNET Subject: Subscribe ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 19-Sep-1994 02:28pm EST From: Claudia Rebaza REBAZAC Dept: POST-SECONDARY/UNIVERSITY Tel No: 813-985-5716 TO: Remote Addressee ( _jnet%index-L@bingvmb ) Subject: Subscribe Subscribe Index-L rebazac@firnvx.firn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 09:45:32 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Glenda@sydney.dialix.oz.au Subject: Indexing - pricing and quoting ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I will be giving a paper on "Pricing the Index" at the International Indexing Conference to be held in Marysville (Victoria, Australia) in March/April next year. I would be delighted to hear about any of your personal experiences with indexing. I am particularly interested in the following: 1. Do you charge the rate recommended by the relevant indexing society (e.g. AUSSI in Australia recommends a rate of A$32.50 per hour), or more, or less? Do you think you should charge more if you use specialised software such as Macrex or Cindex, or if you have specialised knowledge? 2. Do you give a set quote before starting to work, and if so how do you decide what to charge? If not, do you give a quote based on number of locators or some other outcome? 3. Do you ever accept a lower fee than your original quote, and if so, under what conditions? 4. Have you ever had to increase a quote after starting work, e.g. if the book is not what you expected, or if extra work was requested, or required (e.g. by changes being made to the book)? 5. Is the freelance rate for database or journal indexing comparable to the one for book indexing? I am looking forward to receiving any responses you have time to send. Yours, Glenda Browne (c/o Jonathan Jermey). QUIT