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Index (publishing)

Index Index (publishing)

An index (plural: usually indexes, more rarely indices; see below) is a list of words or phrases ('headings') and associated pointers ('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document or collection of documents. [1]

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Adobe FrameMaker

Adobe FrameMaker is a document processor designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents.

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Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems.

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Alexander Cruden

Alexander Cruden (31 May 16991 November 1770) was the Scottish author of an early concordance to the Bible, a proofreader and publisher, and self-styled Corrector of the nation's morals.

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Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) is a society representing indexers in Australia and New Zealand.

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Book

A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition contained in it.

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Book design

Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent whole.

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Book packaging

Book-packaging (or book producing) is a publishing activity in which a publishing company outsources the myriad tasks involved in putting together a book—writing, researching, editing, illustrating, and even printing—to an outside company called a book-packaging company.

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British Record Society

The British Record Society is a British learned society that focuses on publishing historic records, or, more specifically, indexes to such records.

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Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle is the fourth novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1963.

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

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Concept

Concepts are mental representations, abstract objects or abilities that make up the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.

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Concordance (publishing)

A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context.

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Controlled vocabulary

Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval.

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Cross-reference

The term cross-reference can refer to either.

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Database index

A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the index data structure.

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DocBook

DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation.

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Document type definition

A document type definition (DTD) is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for an SGML-family markup language (SGML, XML, HTML).

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Hart's Rules

Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford – today published under the short title New Hart's Rules – is an authoritative reference book and style guide published in England by Oxford University Press (OUP).

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Henry Scobell

Henry Scobell (baptised 1610; died 1660) was an English Parliamentary official, and editor of official publications.

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Hero and Leander (poem)

Hero and Leander is a poem by Christopher Marlowe that retells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander.

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House of Leaves

House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books.

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Index (publishing)

An index (plural: usually indexes, more rarely indices; see below) is a list of words or phrases ('headings') and associated pointers ('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document or collection of documents.

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Index card

An index card (or system card in Australian English) consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data.

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Index finger

The index finger (also referred to as forefinger, first finger, pointer finger, trigger finger, digitus secundus, digitus II, and many other terms), is the first finger and the second digit of a human hand.

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Indexed family

In mathematics, an indexed family is informally a collection of objects, each associated with an index from some index set.

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Indexing and abstracting service

An abstracting service is a service that provides abstracts of publications, often on a subject or group of related subjects, usually on a subscription basis.

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Indexing Software

Indexing Software programs are tools which help to build a book index.

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Intranet

An intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization's staff.

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ISO 999

ISO 999 (Information and documentation—Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes) is an ISO standard which provides the information industry with guidelines for the content, organisation and presentation of indexes to a wide range of documents including books, Periodicals, electronic documents, films, images, maps, and three-dimensional objects.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.

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LaTeX

LaTeX (or; a shortening of Lamport TeX) is a document preparation system.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Library catalog

A library catalog or library catalogue is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations.

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MadCap Software

MadCap Software is an American computer software firm headquartered in San Diego, California that creates help authoring tools.

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MakeIndex

MakeIndex is a computer program which provides a sorted index from unsorted raw data.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand -- or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten -- as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American fiction author.

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Medical Subject Headings

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences; it serves as a thesaurus that facilitates searching.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word (or simply Word) is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

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Ontology

Ontology (introduced in 1606) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

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OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.

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Pale Fire

Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

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Parallel Lives

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos,; c. CE 46 – CE 120), later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος) was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.

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Search engine indexing

Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval.

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Society of Indexers

The Society of Indexers (SI) is a professional society based in the UK, with its offices in Sheffield, England, but has members worldwide.

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StarOffice

StarOffice, known briefly as Oracle Open Office before being discontinued in 2011, was a proprietary office suite.

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Subject (documents)

In library and information science documents (such as books, articles and pictures) are classified and searched by subject - as well as by other attributes such as author, genre and document type.

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Subject indexing

Subject indexing is the act of describing or classifying a document by index terms or other symbols in order to indicate what the document is about, to summarize its content or to increase its findability.

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Table of contents

A table of contents, usually headed simply Contents and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list, usually found on a page before the start of a written work, of its chapter or section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers.

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Taxonomy (general)

Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification.

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Text Encoding Initiative

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s.

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The Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated in writing as CMOS or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.

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The Library of Babel

"The Library of Babel" (La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.

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Thomas North

Sir Thomas North (1535–1604) was an English justice of the peace, military officer and translator.

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Topic map

A topic map is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information.

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Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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Web indexing

Web indexing (or Internet indexing) refers to various methods for indexing the contents of a website or of the Internet as a whole.

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Web search engine

A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

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Website

A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Women in World History

Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia is a 16-volume reference work of biographies of notable women.

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Word processor

A word processor is a computer program or device that provides for input, editing, formatting and output of text, often plus other features.

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WordPerfect

WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application owned by Corel with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.

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XML

In computing, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(publishing)

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