Indexing Society of Canada Program

Mapping Between the Lines: Annual Conference 2013

Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 7 and 8

We are pleased to announce that this year’s conference is a joint event, held with the Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC), with indexing-focused sessions on June 7 and 8. Nancy Mulvany, author of Indexing Books, referred to as the ”gold-standard” for back of the book indexing, will be the indexers’ keynote speaker. Ms Mulvany will open the sessions on June 7, 2013, an opportunity not to be missed!

For more details specific to the ISC program, please visit the ISC website:
http://indexers.ca/annual-conference/

Friday 7 June

9:00 – 9:45: Keynote Nancy Mulvany – The Repurposed Book Index and Indexer

10:00 – 11:00: Pilar Wyman – Metadata, Marketing, and More: Indexes as Discovery Tools

11:15 – 12:15: Louise Spiteri – User-Generated Metadata: Boon or Bust for Indexing and Controlled Vocabularies?

12:15 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 2:00: ISC/SCI AGM

2:15 – 3:15: Caroline Diepeveen – The EJIW Team Indexing Experience: Is Team Indexing the Way Forward?

3:30 – 4:30: Indexing Software Macrex, Cindex and Sky: Recent Innovations

[5:00 - 7:00 EAC welcoming reception]

7:30 – 10:00: ISC/SCI Banquet at Dalhousie University Club

The ISC/SCI 2013 banquet will be held in the Dining Room of Dalhousie University Club, 6259 Alumni Crescent, located just off South Street (1.8 km from Lord Nelson), 902-494-6511. It will begin at 7:30, Friday, June 7, 2013. The cost is $50.

Saturday 8 June

9:00 – 9:45: EAC Keynote

10:00 – 11:00: Elaine Ménard – Image Indexing: TIIARA, a Bilingual Taxonomy to the Rescue!

11:15 – 12:15: Marnie Lamb, Mary Newberry and Margaret de Boer – Indexing Lives: Memoir, Biography and Oral History

1:15 – 2:15: David K. Ream – A Walk through the EPUB3 Indexes Specification

2:15 – 2:30: ISC/SCI Closing Plenary

3:15 – 4:45: EAC AGM