May not absolutely need an index as an electronic book but greatly improved by it. Text searching picks up all examples of a word, including trivial uses. The user must go thru many hits or retrieved pages to get to important uses. Indexing ideally leads to core or important uses. A hyper-linking of terms (via page numbers for instance next to index term in the back of the book index) makes for a more usable book and serves the purpose Indexing was meant to serve. David Woolwine Former Editor, Social Sciences Index, H.W.Wilson Company Former adjunct professor (teaching Indexing), McGill University, Montreal and Queens College/CUNY ________________________________ From: Israel Cohen <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 2:55:12 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: David E. Woolwine; Israel Cohen Subject: Indexing, anyone?
Ann Abrams wrote: >> One of our rabbis is about to publish a book (on a Judaica topic) and asked >> me if I knew anything about the cost of hiring someone to index it. < snip > >> << David Woolwine suggested contacting the American Society for Indexing at http://www.asindexing.org/find-an-indexer/ If this rabbi's book will be printed on paper, it may indeed need an index and/or glossary. If it is published as an eBook, it will not need an index because eBook readers generally enable text searching. It also will not need a glossary but should have clickable (or finger-tappable) links to websites that provide more information about terms or concepts that may not be easily understood by some readers. You can see how website links can replace a glossary in this Word file about changes that occurred in the sound of Hebrew letters: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2033458/My_Books/Sound_Changes.docx The same material is also available as a slide show: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2033458/My_Books/Sound_Changes_slides.pptx Best regards, Izzy Israel A Cohen Beer Sheva +972-54-754-2744 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
