1. Kelly Vincent and Robert Farrell 4/576 Online Documentation April 9, 2011

2.  Good general overview  Plan Your Indexing Strategy ▪ Review the User Analysis ▪ Mark the Index Entries ▪ Build the Index ▪ Edit the Index

3.  Decide What to Index  Commands and Functions  Concepts  User Terms and Questions  Glossary Terms  Proper Names of Products and Companies  Tasks and Procedures

4.  Identify the Level of Detail  Mirror the Chicago Manual of Style for Indexes  Decide on Phrasing and Format  Above all, be consistent  Criticism ▪ No definition of alphabetization ▪ Inconsistent use within the text examples

5.  Edit and Proofread  Editing an index is a daunting task ▪ Have someone else look at it  Criticism ▪ Does an automatic indexing program have the same intuition as a human? ▪ Are the online indexing sights listed still in existence? ▪ Interesting that Barker talks about profession indexers

6.  Why do we need indexes?  More in-depth than a Table of Contents  Alternative way to find specific information

7.  What Now?  Print versus online versus keywords ▪ Each is too different. They cannot be compared ▪ Each is specific for the method of information delivery they are designed for ▪ A product of their time

8. The End Have a Nice Weekend