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Resources: Software

Web Indexing Tools

Stand-alone tools for indexing HTML pages

• HTML Indexer by Brown Inc.
  Windows only
  See also HTML Indexer Tips and Techniques.
  
  
• XRefHT freeware by Timothy Craven
  Windows and Open-source Java 5 (Java runs on Windows, Mac, Linux)
  See also
  • the XRefHT32 documentation.
  • Craven, Timothy C. “XRefHT32: Freeware for HTML Index Creation” (PDF of slides) and handout (PDF)
  • Hedden, Heather. “HTML Indexing Freeware: XRefHT32” (PDF) in Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers, October-December, 2005.
  • Lamb, James. Website Indexes: Visitors to Content in Two Clicks, or website indexing with XRefHT32 freeware. Ardleigh, Essex, England: Jalamb.com Ltd., 2006. ISBN: 978-1-4116-7937-5. 144 pages.
  • How to run a .Jar file - java -jar xrefhtj.jar

Conversion Utilities

• AddLinks: custom applications by Leverage Technologies, Inc.
  Transforms locators to URLs.

• HTML/Prep
  Converts a tagged index to HTML or EPUB2, with or without hyperlinked locators.
  Repurposing print indexes for the Web by David K. Ream, Leverage Technologies, Inc., Key Words 19(1) (Jan/Mar 2011).
  See also
  • earlier HTML/Prep article by Leverage Technologies, Inc.
  • Web Index Preparation with HTML/Prep
  • “HTML/Prep: transforming indexes for the Web,” by Glenda Browne in Online Currents, Vol.17 Issue 7, September 2002.

• Mapper by Leverage Technologies, Inc.
  Utilizes a map file to convert page locators to URLs.

• XRefHT freeware also has index conversion capabilities.

Help Authoring Tools

• AuthorIT enterprise and workgroup editions
• Doc-to-Help for Word and Enterprise editions
• FAR HTML shareware
• HDK (latest version) (2002 version) (Hypertext Development Kit) from RepubliCorp Intl. Pty Ltd
• HTML Help Workshop - Microsoft
• HyperText Studio from Olson Software
• MadCap Flare
• RoboHelp from Adobe
• WebWorks ePublisher Express from Quadralay Corporation

Metadata Indexing and Embedded Indexing

• Kerntiff Index Utilities - Adobe InDesign plugins
• Sonar Bookends InDex Pro - table of contents and indexing plugin for Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress
• Adobe FrameMaker
  • XML/DITA documents, CMS integration, publish to multiple channels, formats and screens via HTML5
  • FrameMaker Developer Center
  • FrameMaker Help
• Adobe InDesign - embedded indexing of ebooks using scripts
  • Creative Cloud Software as a Service (pay by the month)
• DEXembed - Microsoft Word plugin
  • used for embedding indexes from SKY Index, CINDEX and MACREX into Microsoft Word or DocBook XML
• WordEmbed - Microsoft Word plugin
  • tool and article by James Lamb (database developer for Web & Electronic Indexing SIG)
• Indexing: Theory and Application - UC Berkeley Extension
  • embedded indexing using DEXembed, WordEmbed, InDesign by Sylvia Coates
• MACREX
  • has a lot of user definable options for adding markup text to the index file including definition files that can be loaded into MACREX for HTML or XML so it can be used to generate indexes for electronic documents and probably epub (HTML-like); can import/export plain text or comma/quote delimited (CSV) files; requires cleaning up of loose ends for XML to be well formed
• SKY Index - import/export using text delimited files - see manual for details
• XMetaL - XML editor
• DocBook - XML format
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Tools and Software
• IDPF EPUB format
• LibreOffice
• OpenOffice
• Metabrowser
• Microsoft Sharepoint
• OCLC
  • WorldCat - Web catalogue
  • OCLC WorldShare Platform - collaborative cataloguing

Articles on Web indexing tools

Brown, Fred, "Converting Indexes with WebWorks Publisher", Allegro Time!, June, 2002

Brown, Fred, "Embedded vs. Stand-Alone Indexes", Allegro Time!, March, 2001.

Brown, Fred, "Embedding indexes in FrameMaker", Allegro Time!, October, 2002

Brown, Fred, "Indexing with DocBook XML", Allegro Time!, September, 2001, updated May, 2009.

Brown, Fred, "Indexing with Microsoft Word", Allegro Time!, December, 2001.

Brown, Fred, "Indexing with open source tools", (pdf) KnowGenesis IJTC, Vol. 1, Issue 2, June 2006.

Brown, Fred, "Think Macros! - cool tricks to save time and cut the "wear and tear"", Bulletin, Indexing Society of Canada, Autumn 2002.

Hedden, Heather, “Software for HTML Indexing: A Comparative Review.” (pdf) in The Indexer, Vol. 25, No. 1, April 2006: p. 32-37.

Jermey, Jon, “Linux and the indexer - a note”, The Indexer 27(3):135, September 2009

Jermey, Jon, “Metabrowser: automated metatagging of Web pages,” in Online Currents, Vol. 20 Issue 3. 2005. 6-7

Wyman, L. Pilar, “HTML Indexing -- a few hints on what it's all about” article about Web indexing tools, 2001.

Research

• Sencha
  • browser widgets and frameworks
  • Ext JS (cross-browser javascript framework from DSTC)
• ibiblio - software archive
• Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC)
  • ex CRC at University of Queensland, Brisbane
  • Web developer tools and spinoffs
• MIT Libraries Labs browser widgets
• Research Triangle Park, Chapel Hill, NC, USA - science and technology hub
• IBM jStart Emerging Technology - BigSheets, Hadoop, data mining, semantic web, internet archive (British Library)
• IBM Watson - social media aggregator project
• Autonomy - search of unstructured data

Internationalization, Linguistics, Fonts and Dictionary Tools

• SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) - Fieldworks, Scriptsource, Graphite - used in Bible translation worldwide but freely used by other groups too

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