The Tools and Workflows Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Society for Indexing is a networking and educational forum for indexers interested in tools and workflows, including technology and processes, for both indexing and the business of indexing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) macros, regular expressions, software, hardware, efficiency, productivity, and ergonomic solutions. We meet quarterly and offer (mainly) programmed events, including short presentations and workshops.
Our goals
- Serve as a forum for networking, discussion, and education related to the SIG’s focus
- Gather, organize, and archive tool- and workflow-related information and make it available to SIG members in an accessible format
- Workshop and test new ideas
Join us for our first meeting!
Our first meeting will be Friday, Sept 11, 12pm Eastern/9am Pacific.
Maria Sullivan will be speaking on creating back-ups in Cindex. Sarahh Scher will be speaking on using Backblaze as a system back-up tool. Elizabeth Bartmess will be giving a brief orientation to the SIG’s planned wiki project.
The SIG is open to any member of ASI and its affiliated indexing societies. A yearly membership is $12. Sign up through the ASI Store (select Tools and Workflows SIG). A Zoom link will be shared through the SIG’s groups.io channel the week of the meeting.
Questions?
Contact the SIG manager, Elizabeth Bartmess, at elizabeth.bartmess@gmail.com.
