
Courses,
Workshops, and Seminars
“Creating
Website Indexes,” online workshop of four weekly sessions offered
through Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Continuing Education Program.
“Web
Site Indexing for Freelance Indexers,”“HTML for Indexers,”
and “Indexing Techniques for Web Sites and Intranets”
self-paced online courses offered by Hedden Information Management.
See also course
review article (pdf) republished with permission from Key Words,
The Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers.
“Creating
Website Indexes,” half-day ASI conference workshop.
“Writing
Indexes for Books and Websites” online course offered through
Middlesex
Community College, taught by Seth Maislin. This two-month, 30-hour
certificate course teaches the basics of indexing, so it is more appropriate
for people with a Web background who want to learn about indexing, than
for indexers who want to learn about Web indexing.
“Taxonomy
and Metadata Conference Call Series” offered by Seth Earley
of Earley & Associates. Four weekly 1 1/2-hour conference calls with
reference slides, offered every month.
“Basic
Online Indexing” (one day) and “Indexing Using RoboHELP HTML
Editions” (two days) offered by William Meisheid of Sageline
Publishing in Ellicott City, MD. Onsite training possible for four or
more students.
“Introduction
to Knowledge Base Publishing” and “Creating
and using business taxonomies” offered by the Montague Institute,
available in Web-based, face-to-face, and on-site formats. Emphasis is
learning to create corporate taxonomies, but Web A-Z indexes are also
included.
“Web
Site Indexing,” revised text of a presentation given by Marilyn
Rowland at the Web Indexing Workshop at the June 1999 Annual Conference
of the American Society of Indexers.
“Web
Site Indexing with HTML Primer” online course by Broccoli Information
Management. This course is no longer being offered, but contact Broccoli
Information Management if you are interested, for it might be put out
as an e-book.
Basic
HTML Resources
Although
one can create a Web site index with a Web indexing tool and no knowledge
of HTML, a basic skill in HTML is highly desirable to tweak or fix an
index and to meet client style format requirements.
The
basics of HTML can be learned from any of various online tutorials. The
following are but a few of the online HTML tutorials available:
For
a more comprehensive course in HTML:
“Creating
Web Pages”
offered
online by ed2go,
with enrollment through any one of over 1,250 colleges and secondary school
continuing education programs in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
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