the Institute of Certified Indexers

founded 2010

Delighted to announce: The Institute of Certified Indexers (ICI) has been formed to create a body of indexers who have demonstrated a professional level of knowledge and experience in the field of indexing. These indexers have also committed to the prin/…

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As LibraryHead Rebecca Springer says, "Right on, Liza!"

Many thanks to Liza Daly of Threepress Consulting for agreeing to share the slides and notes of her Digital Book World presentation "Getting Past "Good Enough" ebooks".

I agree it’s time to make ebook quality control a priority and not an… Read full post »

Should we be thankful for this type of popularity for indexes? Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue has spawned some rather amusing and some rather interesting public 'indexes':

• Slate Magazine's unauthorized index of Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rogue. - By Christopher Beam

• The Going Rogue Index (co
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Hah! I'm pleased to report that, after lots of manual mapping, the New York Times has released 5,000 tags to the Linked Data Cloud and launched their Linked Open Data Initiative.

"For more than 150 years, The New York Times has meticulously indexed its archives." (http://bit.ly/CqrDF) Yes! And those i… Read full post »

Google's Eric Schmidt says learning how to rank "is the great challenge of the age." http://bit.ly/2cpgD2 -- That's right. That's indexing!

Quality analysis is the name of the game. Humans can do it. Robots can't do it. Artificial intelligence (AI) can't do it. Search engines can't do it.

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As professional taxonomy consultant Seth Earley has also said, indexing, taxonomy work, and metadata are closely related. They are all facets of the same problem: information access. In other words, how to get readers and users to the right information quickly and efficiently. Or, as one of Earley's… Read full post »