arise, I want tools that help diagnose #queries, understand the (mis)use of #indexes, and tune database parameters based on the situation. It also needs to support remote administration (without requiring SSH access), be natively supported on @Microsoft #Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS), and come with portable tools I can easily download and use in build pipelines without needing to install frameworks like .NET or Java. Finally, it should provide clear error (cont'd)
@aendra
The various components of the social din might be better if the index was external, and more collaborative.
I wonder if the Fediverse could support a series of human-derived #indexes outside the likes of Bluesky, #TwitteX and #FaceThreadAgram ?
I wrote a blog entry about the need for decent #indexes in #archaeology books. https://abookindexer.com/2023/01/ There'll be a revised version soon, because I have had more thoughts on the subject.
OpenCitations Meta is out now! It stores and delivers bibliographic metadata for all publications involved in the OpenCitations citation #indexes, and presently contains #metadata describing > 87 MILLION bibliographic entities. Learn more about its data and technical features here: https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/3140
What types of #indexes are there, what are the elements of an #index, and how do they interact? How avoid pitfalls of #indexing? These and many other questions for #indexodon get answered (in German) in this new contribution by Jochen Fassbender, freely available here: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110769043-019
It’s that #INDEX book again. (This is getting silly now.)
After being in TIME magazine’s and the Washington Post’s top books of the year lists, Dennis Duncan’s ‘INDEX, A History of the’ (for which I did the, er, index) is also one of the ‘100 Notable Books of 2022’ in the New York Times. Go Dennis, go #indexes, go #indexers. 
#indexodon
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/22/books/notable-books.html
Does your book need an #index?
Is the author the best person to do it?
Well, sometimes, but often not, for reasons of experience, skills, software, training and time.
So here’s an article I wrote for the Society of Authors: ‘Why you need and how to work with a book #indexer: a guide for #authors.’
Hope it helps!
#indexes #indexing #indexodon
https://baindex.org/2021/01/29/why-you-need-and-how-to-work-with-a-book-indexer-a-guide-for-authors/
I'm willing to put friendship on the line when it comes to #bookrecs. I can't be friends with someone who doesn't like [insert author].
#JaneBowles is high up on my list of writers that can make or break a friendship. She's a #TrueOriginal
My #PasteUp of Jane & her lover #Cherifa from 2009.
#index entry on Cherifa from Millicent Dillon's biography of Jane Bowles: A Little Original Sin.
p 236: "Cherifa...was handsome and had gold teeth. Like Janie she was unpredictable."
