IPEd chair and Style Manual Steering Group chair Kerry Davies was quoted in the Australian Financial Review’s article about ‘duelling style guides’, commenting on the Digital Transformation Agency’s new manual and other style guides.
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NISO’s Updated Draft Standard on Criteria for Indexes Now Open for Public Comment
Baltimore, MD, December 14, 2020: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced today that the Z39.4 Criteria for Indexes Working Group has released its draft standard for public comment. It replaces the original ANSI/NISO Z39.4 standard (Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices) and is an updated and expanded version of NISO’s Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices (a technical report, TR02-1997).
This updated draft NISO Z39.4 standard provides guidelines that better meet today’s requirements for the content, organization, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of information, including those used for electronic searching, regardless of the type of material indexed, the indexing method used, the medium of the index, or the method of presentation for searching.
The draft Z39.4 standard will be available for public comment through January 31, 2021. Anyone with an interest in indexing — authors, editors, publishers, vendors, and others — is encouraged to share their feedback.
“Formalizing the new NISO Z39.4 as a standard that is applicable for both print and online publications will ensure that it is seen as authoritative and encourage wider industry support,” said Marti Heyman, Executive Director, Metadata Strategy and Operations at NISO member organization OCLC, and a Co-chair of the Z39.4 Working Group. “Wider adoption will, in turn, lead to a better, more consistent end-user experience.”
Her fellow Co-chair, Pilar Wyman, Chief Indexer at Wyman Indexing agreed, “By emphasizing the three processes essential for all indexes — comprehensive design, vocabulary management, and syntax — the Z39.4 standard, once formalized, will enable a more efficient and effective process and experience for all who create or use indexes, irrespective of the medium. We welcome their feedback on the draft standard.”
NISO Associate Executive Director, Nettie Lagace, added, “We are delighted that this important standard has now been fully updated to better serve the needs of today’s indexers and index users. Our thanks to Marti, Pilar, and the Z39.4 Working Group members for their hard work to update the previous guidelines and develop new ones. We look forward to receiving additional input from the community through this comment period, which the Working Group will use to improve the final version of the standard, planned to be approved by ANSI in 2021.”
The draft NISO Z39.4 standard is available at https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/criteria-indexes
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About NISO
NISO, based in Baltimore, MD, USA, aims to build knowledge, foster discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards, and is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq@niso.org.
ASI Special Event -Exiting 2020: Now is the Winter for Indexing Content – December 5, 2020 via Zoom
The American Society for Indexing is excited to bring together four top speakers who will share indexing content you need for your business. During this unexpected time, honing your career is smart practice. Conveniently, you will join this virtual event from the comfort of your home or office computer via Zoom. Take this opportunity to enhance your skills and stay competitive in 2021.
For more information see https://www.asindexing.org/news/special-event-exiting-2020/
Members of ANZSI can use a special code to register for US $99. Please email the ANZSI Secretary (secretary@anzsi.org) for further information.
ASI Online Learning: Culinary Indexing—Food for Thought Three-Part Series October 14, 21, and 28, 2020
Indexers play a vital role in creating the cookbooks that readers love. Their work guides cooks and chefs to the recipe they are looking for or helps them discover ones they didn’t know about. Because they are used again and again, cookbooks have a large number of repeat readers, relying on you to help them find “that” recipe.
Since no two cookbooks are the same, each index is custom made, unique to that book. As an indexer, how do you determine what to include? Do you index the recipe titles? Which ingredients should be indexed? If the cookbook is for a particular style of eating, like low-fat or gluten-free, how does that impact your indexing decisions? What choices do you make to help readers who are browsing an index vs. searching an index for a specific recipe? How do you handle different terms for food, such as in British vs. American English?
To register go to https://www.asindexing.org/online-learning/culinary-hall/
Please note: Attendance at the live sessions is not required. Registration entitles you to “on demand” access to the course and unlimited repeat viewings after the initial sessions have aired.
ANZSI members receive a discount. Details will be emailed separately to all ANZSI members.
The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is pleased to announce that Sandra Muchekeza is the 2020 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary Award recipient.
With this bursary, the ISC/SCI aims to help achieve equality of opportunity for aspiring indexers belonging to underrepresented and/or marginalized groups. The bursary covers fees for an approved indexing program, two years of ISC membership with listing, and entry into the Mary Newberry Mentorship program https://indexers.ca/resources/mentorship
View the full press release here https://indexers.ca/indexing-society-of-canada-announces-winner-of-the-diversity-in-canadian-publishing-bursary-award-for-2020
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