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Newsletter of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Inc.
Volume 12 • Number 1 • February 2016
From the President .............................................................................................................................................. 1
Education news ...................................................................................................................................................... 2
Melbourne Indexers group ................................................................................................................................ 3
ASI and ISC/SCI 2016 Conference.................................................................................................................... 3
Web Indexing Award 2015 ................................................................................................................................ 4
Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd)and national direct membership ....................................... 5
Gallimaufry ............................................................................................................................................................. 6
ANZSI events ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
Other events ........................................................................................................................................................... 9
Christmas crossword solution .......................................................................................................................10
Contact information ...........................................................................................................................................12
From the President
Happy New Year! I hope that 2016 has started well for all ANZSI members.
Council will be meeting again on 9 February. Top of our list for discussion will be managing ANZSI funds. We are still in the process of closing branch bank accounts and term deposits since the restructure. Once we have amalgamated the funds into a central account, we will be able to make decisions on how to use or invest the money.
The new ANZSI website is now seven months old! Thank you again to our hardworking webmaster, Denise Sutherland, for keeping it up and running smoothly.
A belated congratulations to our previous webmaster and site developer extraordinaire, Alexandra Bell, who gave birth to her second child, Lachlan, in December. Building a website and a baby at the same time (while also working as an indexer) couldn’t have been an easy task!
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Now that the website has been live for a while, we would like to review how it’s performing. We are preparing a website evaluation survey to be distributed externally, with a focus on editors and publishers who may visit the Indexers Available section of the site. We will prepare a similar survey for distribution to ANZSI members. The aim of the surveys is to gather feedback that will help us improve the website. Of course, we also hope we’ll get some confirmation that it’s working well, too. We will report the findings of the surveys, as well as some interesting data on who is looking at the website (from Google Analytics) in an upcoming Newsletter.
Have you noticed the blog section on the website? Denise has been updating this regularly with news and articles that you might find interesting. Her most recent posts have been about the winner of the Web Indexing Award 2015 and the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) vote for national direct membership. You can find these posts at http://www.anzsi.org/blog-2/ (or read about them later in this Newsletter!) And, of course, if you find an item that you think would be of interest to other ANZSI members, please send it to Denise for the blog and to Elisabeth for the Newsletter.
If you are attending the ASI and ISC/SCI 2016 Conference in June in Chicago, please read the article later in the Newsletter about applying to be the ANZSI representative.
Mary Coe
ANZSI President
Education news
I have been invited to take on the role of ANZSI Education Officer. There are three major parts to this role: liaison between Council and people wanting to organise courses, provision of support and information about training, and maintenance of records about training and interests.
While most courses were previously run by branches, they will now all be officially run by Council. Ideas and on-the-ground support will come from groups or possibly individuals.
Please contact me if:
you or your group would like to run a course on behalf of Council you would like to suggest a topic for a course you would like to offer your services as a trainer for a course
If you would like to be considered as a trainer, please make a note of the topics you could teach, your background in those topics (training and experience), and any prior teaching experience (for ANZSI or other providers). This doesn’t have to be a long resume - if an opportunity arises, we can contact you for more information.
I am currently also the convener of the Education Interest Group.
To keep the roles separate, I would be happy to pass this on to another member. Let me know if you would like to take it on (the job is not arduous).
Please also consider joining the Education Group. This is a forum in which all members can contribute ideas about training. The more members we have, the more representative our discussions will be. If you have ideas, we’d love to hear them.
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Glenda Browne
ANZSI Education Officer
ANZSI Education Interest Group Convener
Melbourne Indexers group
Events program
The Melbourne Indexers announces its program for the first half of 2016. Hopefully there is something in this mix to tempt you to attend at least one meeting.
Why not join the group and receive our monthly Bulletin?
Visitors are welcome to meetings, especially those from out of town.
Group details on the webpage http://www.anzsi.org/about-us/groups/melbourne-indexers/.
Events, with full details, are promoted on the ANZSI website Events page and in the ANZSI Newsletter.
Wednesday 3 February – Indexing the ANZSI Newsletters
Wednesday 2 March – Filing issues
Wednesday 6 April – Accessing archived journal content using a hyperlinked index
Thursday 5 May – Tour of Ballarat Mechanics Institute Library
Tuesday 31 May – Converting Word indexes to Cindex or Macrex or SKY using IndexConvert
Mary Russell
Melbourne Indexers Group Convener
ASI and ISC/SCI 2016 Conference
Want to be the ANZSI representative?
The American Society for Indexing and the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d'indexation are holding a joint conference on 17 and 18 June 2016 at the Conference Chicago at University Center in Chicago, Illinois.
If you are planning to attend this conference and would like to apply to be the official ANZSI
representative, please contact Mary Coe, ANZSI President, by 30 April 2016.
The ANZSI representative will receive free conference registration. In return, you will be expected to report back to your ANZSI colleagues by writing an article about the conference. This will be
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published in the ANZSI Newsletter. The representative will be invited to join other international representatives for their meeting the day before the conference (Thursday 16 June).
The theme of the conference is “The Drama of Indexing” and there is something on the program for everyone, from new indexers to seasoned professionals. The conference program is available at http://www.asindexing.org/conference-2016/program-2016/.
Web Indexing Award 2015
On behalf of the Web and Electronic Indexing Special Interest Group of American Society for Indexing (ASI), I am happy to announce the result of the international competition for the Web Indexing Award 2015:
Winner: Dr Doug Lowry, USA
Publication: Catholic Q and A: Essentials of the Faith Explained by Father Ray Ryland.
Publication: ebook with MarpX search engine using patented proximity search algorithm, ebook index and theme url; (epub and mobi - epub has to be downloaded): http://www.catholicquestions.org/.
Ebook MarpX search engine url: http://www.catholicfind.com/ryland/.
Society: American Society for Indexing.
Software used: MarpX.com, using Doug Lowry's search engine algorithm patent USA 7,433,893: Method and system for compression indexing and efficient proximity search of text data - http://www.google.com/patents/US7433893.
Judge's remarks: http://www.web-indexing.org/award/2015.htm.
“It was a combo index with internal index and themes and an external search engine that pointed to words not found in internal indexes.
This is a pioneer into the new overlap between ebook indexing and Web indexing (search).
There are still human indexes in the ebook and the search engine complements that with very accurate proximity search that uses distance between words in the search making the entries very accurate.”
It has come a long way since those early days of the Web Indexing Prize I helped run back in AusSI as Webmaster and Newsletter Editor in 1996 or so.
I trust your readers will learn heaps from the winner's amazing combo ebook search engine index I judged as winner this year.
Any active ANZSI member is welcome to join our SIG via website.
Dwight Walker
Web and Electronic Indexing Special Interest Group, American Society for Indexers (ASI), http://www.web-indexing.org
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Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd)and national direct
membership
From July 2016 the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), the peak body representing Australian editors in the publishing and communication industries, will become a direct membership organisation with individual editors becoming members.
Until now, IPEd’s membership has been the seven societies of editors from across Australia, but under the new structure participating societies will become branches and their members transferred to IPEd.
In a vote of the societies in November 2015, the new structure was supported by 82 per cent of voters in terms of proportion of votes nationally, and received a record 41 per cent voter participation.
The new structure reflects that of similar organisations internationally and offers considerable benefits to editors and the industries they support by:
providing a powerful voice for the editing profession, and national advocacy and support to IPEd members regarding pay rates, contracts and other professional advice
recruiting staff to undertake administrative, accounting and membership functions, which will allow the branches to focus on developing programs and events for members
establishing a national editorial services register for editors to market their services and to provide a source from which publishers, authors and other organisations can find editors
engaging in direct communication with members supporting national training and professional development programs and economies of
scale to offer webinars and online training for the benefit of all members.
The need for a revised structure was identified following concerns regarding IPEd’s sustainability and a 2012 review. The concerns raised were in regard to IPEd’s long-term financial viability, capacity to deliver core activities, reliance on volunteers and higher expectations than what it could deliver under its funding model.
Three proposed models for the future of IPEd were developed and put to the members of the societies of editors for a vote in 2013, with the model to transform IPEd to a national membership
organisation winning member support.
What followed was two years of extensive planning and consultation with members nationally, and implementation of the vote for the new structure.
Four of the seven societies voted for the new structure – New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria – and their members will be transferred automatically to IPEd. The Canberra Society of Editors, Society of Editors (WA) and Society of Editors (Tasmania), which voted against the resolution, have the option to hold a second ballot in early 2016 to become part of the national organisation at the transition date of 1 July 2016.
Regardless of the outcome, individual editors will be entitled to apply directly for IPEd membership
from July 2016.
IPEd (Press release, December 2015)
http://iped-editors.org/
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Gallimaufry
For the home office?
Tweeted by those at The Reading Room – eau de olde books.
Huffington Post offers “6 healthy reasons to drink coffee every day” [for those who may, or may not, need encouragement to consume their caffeine beverage!].
Old oddments
The Atlantic recently featured an article on the history of writing implements and “How the ballpoint pen killed cursive”.
A surprising survivor highlighted by Erik
Kwakkel: catalogue of books sold at 1615 Frankfurt book fair!
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ANZSI events
For full details, follow the link from the title of each event to the website.
Wednesday 3 February
Melbourne Indexers: Indexing the ANZSI Newsletters
6:00 – 7:30 pm, Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall, 1 Pakington St, Kew, VIC, 3101
Filling in the gaps in the index to the past issues of AusSI/ANZSI Newletters.
Tuesday 9 February
National: Council meeting
6:30 –8:00 pm, Held via teleconference
Wednesday 2 March
Melbourne Indexers: Filing issues
6:00 – 7:30 pm, Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall, 1 Pakington St, Kew, VIC, 3101
Filing A-Z may sound easy, but it isn’t always straightforward or obvious. Bring your problematic examples for discussion.
Tuesday 8 March
National: Council meeting
6:30 –8:00 pm, Held via teleconference
Wednesday 2 April
Melbourne Indexers: Accessing archived journal content using a hyperlinked index
6:00 – 7:30 pm, Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall, 1 Pakington St, Kew, VIC, 3101
Using a practical example, this session will explain how hyperlinks are created and the programming involved.
Tuesday 12 April
National: Council meeting
6:30 –8:00 pm, Held via teleconference
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Other events
All other events listed in ANZSI Newsletter are for information only. Attendance may be dependent upon memberships, fees or other conditions. Please contact the provider organisation.
Society of Editors (NSW) Inc – Editors/freelancers’ lunch
Tuesday 16 February, 1:00 – 3:00 pm, Sicilian Restaurant, 29 Church St, Parramatta NSW
The February editors' lunch kicks off the 2016 schedule in a new location, to bring together members in the greater Sydney area for our first get together.
No bookings are required: you can turn up and ask for the Society of Editors' table and our lunch coordinator Terry Johnston will be there to greet you.
On offer is reasonably priced, good Italian food and the priceless opportunity to network with fellow society members and guests.
Australian Society of Authors – Workshop – Writing history: you can’t Google it
Saturday 13 February, 2:00 pm+, NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle NSW
In this workshop, author Mark Dapin will focus on developing interviewing skills, checking facts,
and working with archived documents. He will teach how to separate facts from folklore and, perhaps most importantly, how to turn cold dead facts into living, vibrant prose. He will also discuss researching and writing family histories and personal memoirs.
State Library of New South Wales –Workshop – eResources for research: history and social
sciences
Thursday 18 February, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, State Library of NSW
Designed for the experienced researcher of history and social sciences this course will reveal some of the most relevant databases and online resources available with the use of your Library card. Learn from expert librarians how to interrogate databases and online resources to achieve the best results from a targeted history or social sciences search, as well as how to export citations. Intermediate computing skills are required.
Editors Victoria - Workshops – Grammar for Editors (Introductory), (Intermediate) and
(Advanced)
Saturdays 27 February, 12 March and 2 April, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, Centre for Adult Education
(CAE), 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC
These three (separate) workshops are offered for the development of language/grammar/editing skills of attendees with different levels of experience. Read the event details to select the appropriate course/s.
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Canberra Society of Editors - Workshop – Selling your services
Saturday 5 March
This course is on sales and marketing, and aims to assist freelancers in building and developing better relationships with clients.
Contact Katie Poidomani (the Society’s Professional Development and Training Coordinator) [email protected] if you are interested in attending this course.
Christmas crossword solution
Just in case there were one or two answers you still needed…
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Contact information
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ANZSI Council
President: Mary Coe
Vice-President: Daphne Lawless
Secretary: Kerry Anderson
Treasurer: Michael Wyatt
Council members: Shirley Campbell, Terri Mackenzie and Elisabeth Thomas
Branch and regional contacts
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contact people.
Newsletter
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PO Box 43, Lawson NSW 2783, Australia
ISSN 1832-3855
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Editor: Elisabeth Thomas
About the Newsletter
Commencing 2016, the Newsletter is now published six times a year, every two months.
Opinions and statements expressed in the Newsletter are those of the individual
contributors, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Society.
Schedule
The next Newsletter will be April 2016. The contribution deadline is Friday 18 March.
Please send contributions by email to the editor, Elisabeth Thomas, at
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