Courses on Web Indexing

Resources: Courses

Courses, Workshops, and Seminars

Webinars

Taxonomy Division Webinar Series: The Role of Taxonomies in Content Strategy Dec 6, 2012

Universities

OpenLearning - UNSW MOOC (massive open online courses) in computing
Open Universities Australia - distance education
UNILINC - shared meta indexing, Sydney, Australia
University of Melbourne, Australia
- free online courses from 2013 Australian Financial Review 20 Sep 12
University of California Berkeley, San Francisco, USA
- School of Information (iSchool)
- UC Berkeley Extension Indexing: Theory and Application
  instructor: Sylvia Coates
  embedded indexing using DEXembed, WordEmbed, InDesign
University of Ballarat Centre for eCommerce and Communications, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Single Source Publishing - Docbook Manager
- Content Management System - Content Builder
UNC School of Information and Library Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- ibiblio software archive
- INDEX-L
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois - The iSchool at Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
- W. Boyd Rayward, Emeritus Professor - ex professor at UNSW School of Information, Library and Archive Studies 1986-1999 - excellent information science bibliography
MIT, Boston, CT, USA
- MITx - free online training leading to certificate
  - Forbes story 12/11
- MIT Opencourseware
- Computer Science Labs
- Libraries Labs
School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW, Australia
- subjects including Web 2.0, digital media
- Librarians Book Store (CSU)
- Graduate Certificate in Small Business Management - distance education - emotional intelligence in business and health care
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
UTS: Information, Media, Knowledge Management, Sydney, Australia - postgraduate coursework
UNSW Australian School of Business School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, Sydney, Australia
- GENC9002 Web Information Resources, Zixiu Guo, 2006 (pdf)

Brisbane Adobe User Groups (BAUG) - this meets at Southbank TAFE, South Brisbane, Australia and has talks on Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, PDF and Illustrator.

Introduction to Web 2.0: the emergence and rise of mass social media - TAFE NSW, Sydney Institute, Australia

NISO Webinar: Understanding Critical Elements of E-books: The Social Reading Experience of Sharing Bookmarks and Annotations Sep 12, 2012, 1:00-2:30pm ET (fees)

Thesaurus construction course - on demand - contact , Canberra, Australia

Embedded indexing at NSW Writers Centre, Sydney, Australia, 11 Sep 2012 - Jon Jermey, Mary Coe of ANZSI - demos of LibreOffice, MS-Word, WordEmbed, DexEmbed and InDesign, along with the continuing significance of dedicated indexing software, plus thoughts on EPUB

Taxonomy Bootcamp 2012 - Oct 16-17, 2012, Washington DC

“Information Organization,” online workshops 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 conference workshop, occasionally offered at ASI.

“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.

“Words, Meaning, Context: Building an App from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations January 9, 2013” (see Podcasts) and similar whitepapers, podcasts and articles offered by Seth Earley of Earley & Associates. Webinars 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.

“Custom knowledge base development” and “Creating and using Sharepoint 2010 taxonomies February 13, 2013” 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 American Society for Indexing Annual Conference June 1999.

“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.

“Introduction to Web Indexing”, online course run by Dwight Walker at WWWalker Web Development Pty Ltd one day a week over 4 weeks in 1998. This course is no longer being offered and course notes were sold in HTML but are no longer available.

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:

HTML Tutorial on the W3 Schools Web developers' site
“Getting Started with HTML” by Jukka Korpela
HTML Cheatsheet on the Webmonkey site
Web Design Group

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.