International indexing good practice Website
Indexing Good Practice Home Page
This site explains the commonly agreed standards for indexes in books, documents, help files, web sites and other electronic and print media.
The objectives are:
to promote good practice in indexing
to help those commissioning indexes:
- recognise and understand index quality;
- appreciate how a professional standard index adds value to their document.
Resources are also provided to help find and commission an indexer.
This site is maintained using Wiki - Professional indexers wishing to help should read the IGP maintenance guidelines
INDEX OF TOPICS
filing see alphabetical order
letter-by-letter order see alphabetical order
sorting see alphabetical order
word-by-word order see alphabetical order
The intention for this Website is to document, synthesize and extend the current standards for indexing.
This Website is using a Wiki as its structure. Some pages you might find useful are:
- Documentation is available at PmWiki.DocumentationIndex.
- What is the WikiWikiWeb?
- TipsForEditing and TextFormattingRules describe how to create pages in PmWiki.
- Practice editing pages in the WikiSandbox.