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Courses,
Workshops, and Seminars
Webinars
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
- University of California Berkeley, San Francisco, USA
- 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
- Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois - The iSchool at Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
- MIT, Boston, CT, USA
- School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW, Australia
- 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
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:
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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