The Manual de estilo Chicago-Deusto and indexing techniques in Spanish-language indexes

Jochen Fassbender reviews the Manual de estilo Chicago-Deusto, which is the Spanish translation and adaptation of The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. He looks specifically at Chapter 16 on indexes, compares the indexes to the two publications, and discusses how indexing techniques can be applied in Spanish-language indexes.

Dictionary of basic indexing terminology

This multilingual dictionary of basic and most-used indexing terminology consists of six languages: English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. There is a group-ordered version according to topic and an alphabetically ordered one sorted on the English terms. Resources as well as language specifics and idiosyncrasies are discussed.

‘Indexing Unlimited’: the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) Virtual Conference 2021

‘Indexing unlimited’ was the theme for the online conference hosted by the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) on 27-9 May 2021. We combine three reports on the conference from Canada and Germany to provide an overview not only of the conference presentations but also of the experience of planning for and attending a virtual conference in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Navigating the information space of the Mary MacQueen Scrap Book wiki: is it an index, a mind map or a topic map?

This paper discusses the use of wiki technology to provide a navigation structure for the online version of the Mary MacQueen Scrap Book, which contains newspaper clippings about the Victorian artist. After outlining the architecture of the wiki, the navigation structure is discussed and several questions are posed: is the navigation structure an index? If so, what type? Or is it just a linkage structure or topic map? Does such a distinction really matter? Are these definitions in reality function-based?