Society of Indexers Conference 2024

Bookings are now open for the Society of Indexers 2024 online conference ‘Human Indexing in a Digital World’. The conference will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 18th September and Thursday 19th September 2024.

The rate for the two-day conference is £50 for SI, ICRIS-affiliated and CIEP members (and £60 for non-members), which includes access to recordings of the presentations for 12 months.

The booking form is available at https://www.indexers.org.uk/events/conference-2024-human-indexing-in-a-digital-world/.

The conference main sessions and presenters are:

  • AI (artificial intelligence) tools in publishing and implications for indexing (George Walkley and Tanya Izzard)
  • Software: current states of play of the main dedicated indexing programs (Pierke Bosschieter and Stephen Ullstrom)
  • The Frankfurt Kabuff as creative publishing critique and its unusual index (Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires and Paula Clarke Bain)
  • Wikipedians: improving online information about indexing (Mary Coe and other indexer–Wikipedians)

Plus parallel breakout discussion sessions including:

  • client relations
  • embedded indexing
  • multi-author works
  • peer review
  • students and new professionals forum
  • time for free chat with indexing colleagues

The conference programme timetable is now available via the conference page at https://www.indexers.org.uk/training-development/conferences/conference-2024/.

Please join us at the SI 2024 online conference and on social media with the hashtag #SIConf24. We look forward to seeing you there.

ISC/SCI members can access the discount code in the member area.

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