Presentations

David K. Ream, LevTech's principal consultant, has presented at the annual conferences and chapter meetings of the American Society of Indexers, the UK Society of Indexers, and the Australian/New Zealand Society of Indexers.

[Note: the slides links below will invoke a PDF file. To view these, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader™ which is free and can be downloaded from www.adobe.com. However, the slides are only part of the presentation. Demonstrations of software and web sites are also included in the presentations.]

Available talks:

• Multiple Index Publications: Some Case Studies. This session will show five different models for gathering data and generating multiple indexes to publications.  Two of the editorial systems use a database approach and three use dedicated indexing preparation software.  The approaches and technologies involved will be discussed, demonstrated, and contrasted. slides

• Web Indexes: definitions, contrasts to print indexes, and technologies for creation.  This session covers the various types of web indexes, design criteria for print and web indexes, methods for handling locators and links, and some demonstrations of existing sites. slides

• A SGML DTD for Indexes: an introduction to markup languages is presented as well as a model for an Index DTD.  This session reviews various tagging schemes, introduces the basic concepts of SGML, all leading up to a proposed model for compiled indexes that could be used for SGML publications. 
  slides  DTD  example index  example index with SGML tagging

• An XML DTD for Indexes: an introduction to markup languages is presented as well as a model for an Index DTD.  This session reviews various tagging schemes, introduces the basic concepts of XML, all leading up to a proposed model for indexes that could be used for XML publications and data transfer. The DTD consists of the two files: the "schema" and the entity references module.
  slides  DTD1  DTD2  example index  example index with XML display tagging example index with XML data tagging
  A downloadable utility has been created to convert a CINDEX file to XML and vice-versa. Download cdXml using this link. Create a shortcut to it and invoke it which will display how to run the program. Or use Start/Run to invoke it.