[Sigia-l] Web site A-Z indexes

[Heather Hedden]

Matthew,

Thank you for your comments. I hadn't looked at it as a two part process.

Do you, or others, think the role for professional indexers in the
online/web medium would still be as freelancers, and if so, who (what
positions/titles) would be a position to contract them? Or would this more
likely be full-time staff work?

--Heather

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Matthew deStwolinski wrote:

You can look at the job traditional print indexers do in two parts.
One, they tag pieces of content with indexing terms.  Two, they take
that information and transform it into an A-Z index in the back of the
book.

In the online world, that first part is (or can be) much the same and is
a very big issue.  There are a lot of efforts to automate indexing, but
most agree that at least some, (if not a lot of,) human involvement is
necessary.  I imagine that someone with extensive indexing experience
would be highly sought after in many organizations with a lot of online
content.