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BACK-OF-BOOK-INDEXING:
An index concentrates a book into its important words and concepts. The index is usually found at the back of the book.
A document may be a book, an issue or volume of a magazine or journal, film, computer file, or any other information source. An index is a systematic arrangement of entries designed to enable users to locate information in a document. An index anticipates the reader's viewpoint by providing entries that are worded and structured so as to be useful to those who are less familiar with the topic than the author thereby giving readers quick and efficient access to the text.
The indexer should be widely read, scrupulous in handling of detail, analytically minded, well acquainted with publishing practices, and capable of meeting almost impossible deadlines.
Sanath Solutions is specialised in back-of-the-book indexes for hard copy books and electronic resources like web sites, online documentation and e-books.
Processes
Our indexers mark the text as they read through and making entries is a separate process. The specialized computer softwares greatly speeds up the mechanical aspects of sorting, editing and printing an index. We use Cindex for normal indexing; for embedded indexes, we can use Frame, InDesign, Word and other software programs.
Chicago Manual of Style, Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA) and Turabian are some of the standard styles we follow; also we adhere to the client specific styles.
After completing the draft index, the indexer edits it for structure, clarity, and consistency; formats it to specifications; proofreads it; and submits it to the client as per the formate they prefered (RTF / DOC / CDX / ARC / PDF files through email / CD-ROM. Printouts also provided on request.
Quality
Indexes are thoroughy checked for its selection and arragement by 3 level cross checkings (Index Master - Expert - Project leader)
The key issues we concentrate in QC are main / sub heading, locators (Page
References), double postings, cross-references, length and type and finally
the format.
Links
Chicago manual of style- indexing
The American Society for Indexing
