If indexing is an art to you, then this event will be right up your alley. “The Art and Craft of Indexing” is the theme at the American Society for Indexing’s annual conference in San Antonio, Texas on April 17-20, 2013.
This interesting event was brought to our attention by iNewsWire in their article, “American Society For Indexing Announces Its 2013 Annual Conference In San Antonio, TX – April 17-19.” The planners of this event plan to bring order to the digital age by applying the art and craft of indexing. Keynote speaker Judith Pasoe, M.F. Carpenter Professor of English at the University of Iowa, and author of “My Last Index,” will kick off the show.
Other topics will include team indexing, vocabulary use, craft indexing, taxonomy, and legal indexing.
Click here for more information about the conference and for registration.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
For my thoughts on the similarities and differences between indexing in the traditional American Society for Indexing view and indexing with pre-built taxonomies, read Bridging the Great Indexing Divide at http://www.accessinn.com.
I’m pleased to be presenting the full day taxonomy workshop for this conference. The American Society for Indexing has been expanding beyond its traditional scope of book indexing to the use of taxonomy-based indexing. Self-contained book/website/series indexing remains the focus for most members, but some are reaching out to the new (for them) territory of drawing indexing terms from taxonomies/thesauri/controlled vocabularies.