pilarw2000
@pilarw2000.bsky.social
Chief indexer & Consultant, Wyman Indexing. Great indexes for great books -- in all media. Professional services since 1990. wymanindexing.com
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Indexers' Guide to Project 2025 – A finding aid for those wishing to gain a better understanding of the goals of Project 2025.
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The Indexing Task Force, an independent nonpartisan group of professional indexers, has developed an index to help people see what Project 2025 contains: indexersguidetoproject2025.com indexersguidetoProject2025 -- thank you, indexers!
Happy National Indexing Day! Quality indexes are an essential part of publishing. American Society for Indexing (ASI) has examined gen AI for book indexes. They require expert review to meet basic standards of quality or completeness, navigability, and accuracy: asindexing.org/ai-and-index....
AI and Indexing
As part of ASI’s commitment to excellence in indexing, ASI has formed a committee whose charge is to monitor, assess, investigate, and evaluate the impacts of AI on indexing. The AI Committee’…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy National Indexing Day! Quality indexes are an essential part of publishing. American Society for Indexing (ASI) has examined gen AI for book indexes. They require expert review to meet basic standards of quality or completeness, navigability, and accuracy: asindexing.org/ai-and-index....
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Plenty of protest themes going on with Halloween decorations this year:
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Plenty of protest themes going on with Halloween decorations this year:
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I’m sure you’ve seen this (Brookland).
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I’m sure you’ve seen this (Brookland).
Statement on AI and Book #Indexing from ASI: "AI is not currently capable of producing even adequate indexes. High-quality indexes that meet reader needs and expectations still require the fine-grained human judgment of a professional indexer." asindexing.org/ai-news/stat... #IndexSky #bookindexes
Statement on AI and Book Indexing | American Society for Indexing
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October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Statement on AI and Book #Indexing from ASI: "AI is not currently capable of producing even adequate indexes. High-quality indexes that meet reader needs and expectations still require the fine-grained human judgment of a professional indexer." asindexing.org/ai-news/stat... #IndexSky #bookindexes
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#AI lies to us. That’s why Jaime Fernández Fisac created a “bullshit index” to track how and why AI is misleading its users. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinform...
August 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#AI lies to us. That’s why Jaime Fernández Fisac created a “bullshit index” to track how and why AI is misleading its users. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinform...
"At this time, AI cannot replace professional book indexers and we are doubtful that it will be able to do so soon, or even at all." #IndexSky
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ASI releases white paper “LLM-Generated Book Indexes: Can They Replace Professionally Created Indexes?” | American Society for Indexing
We are developing a Statement on AI based on the white paper, which will include guidance for authors, publishers, and indexers; the statement will be released soon.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"At this time, AI cannot replace professional book indexers and we are doubtful that it will be able to do so soon, or even at all." #IndexSky
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DC will always rise.
August 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
DC will always rise.
August 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thank you for the support, Ben Widdicombe and Steve Rubell, “First thing I did,” he said, “was look for the index.”
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Opinion | What to Look for in a Celebrity Memoir
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July 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thank you for the support, Ben Widdicombe and Steve Rubell, “First thing I did,” he said, “was look for the index.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
June 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Great @indexerscanada.bsky.social session by Elizabeth Bartmess on AI and LLM attempts to index full-length books (with HT @tanyaizzard.bsky.social). Plus how to respond as societies and individual indexers (the ‘context artists’). ‘LLMs are not indexing a book. They are autocompleting an index.’
May 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Great @indexerscanada.bsky.social session by Elizabeth Bartmess on AI and LLM attempts to index full-length books (with HT @tanyaizzard.bsky.social). Plus how to respond as societies and individual indexers (the ‘context artists’). ‘LLMs are not indexing a book. They are autocompleting an index.’
Free online training for embedded indexing with Index-Manager Wednesday 14 May, 2025!
Basic: 11am EDT or 6pm Australian EDT, Advanced: 12pm EDT.
Basic sessions: short tour of important functions, focus on 1st steps. Advanced: focuses on editing. Register: lnkd.in/eBEpiSYt. Join us! Happy #indexing!
Basic: 11am EDT or 6pm Australian EDT, Advanced: 12pm EDT.
Basic sessions: short tour of important functions, focus on 1st steps. Advanced: focuses on editing. Register: lnkd.in/eBEpiSYt. Join us! Happy #indexing!
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May 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Free online training for embedded indexing with Index-Manager Wednesday 14 May, 2025!
Basic: 11am EDT or 6pm Australian EDT, Advanced: 12pm EDT.
Basic sessions: short tour of important functions, focus on 1st steps. Advanced: focuses on editing. Register: lnkd.in/eBEpiSYt. Join us! Happy #indexing!
Basic: 11am EDT or 6pm Australian EDT, Advanced: 12pm EDT.
Basic sessions: short tour of important functions, focus on 1st steps. Advanced: focuses on editing. Register: lnkd.in/eBEpiSYt. Join us! Happy #indexing!
#indexers #IndexSky #bookindexers
... and yes, just a leetle nervous and intimidated about the whole thing 😱😎
... and yes, just a leetle nervous and intimidated about the whole thing 😱😎
Join Jolanta Komornicka, Pilar Wyman, Michele Combs, Devon Thomas & Gina Guilinger in the round-table session “X-Men United, Indexers Divided?: Differing Approaches to Indexing the Same Text”, where they discuss different approaches to indexing the same book. Register at www.conference.indexers.ca
conference.Indexers.ca – Annual conference of Canada's professional society of indexers
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May 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#indexers #IndexSky #bookindexers
... and yes, just a leetle nervous and intimidated about the whole thing 😱😎
... and yes, just a leetle nervous and intimidated about the whole thing 😱😎
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Free access to these Indexer articles for a couple more days: the hidden world of indexing, dealing with unconventional texts, medieval names, indexing comic fiction, and the implications of generative AI. Thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social for making these available for #IndexDay.
Celebrating National Indexing Day 2025
National Indexing Day The Society of Indexers is celebrating National Indexing Day for the seventh successive year on Thursday 27th March 2025. This year we will be celebrating with a half-day in-p…
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April 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Free access to these Indexer articles for a couple more days: the hidden world of indexing, dealing with unconventional texts, medieval names, indexing comic fiction, and the implications of generative AI. Thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social for making these available for #IndexDay.
Go, Cory, Go!!!!!
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Go, Cory, Go!!!!!
#indexes in the wild!
Happy National Indexing Day to all indexers, readers, publishers, and everyone! A selection of indexers available from the library collection of The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama #IndexDay @indexers.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
#indexes in the wild!
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Hillary Clinton: SignalGate Is Just Dumb [Gift Link]
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Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb (Gift Article)
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hillary Clinton: SignalGate Is Just Dumb [Gift Link]
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There will be no accountability without a free press.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There will be no accountability without a free press.
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It's World Book Day today! One of the ways you can #ReadYourWay is by using the index to find the parts of a book that you're really interested in. All non-fiction books deserve a great index so that readers can find the information they really want. Learn more about indexing at buff.ly/WeSkr2y
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It's World Book Day today! One of the ways you can #ReadYourWay is by using the index to find the parts of a book that you're really interested in. All non-fiction books deserve a great index so that readers can find the information they really want. Learn more about indexing at buff.ly/WeSkr2y
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February 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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From Barbara Pym’s No Fond Return of Love: ‘but a book can be made or marred by its index. And love and devotion are not necessarily the best qualifications, she thought, remembering the wives and others who undertook what was often acknowledged to be a thankless task.’
Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️
Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️
February 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
From Barbara Pym’s No Fond Return of Love: ‘but a book can be made or marred by its index. And love and devotion are not necessarily the best qualifications, she thought, remembering the wives and others who undertook what was often acknowledged to be a thankless task.’
Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️
Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️
Project 2025's implementation is well underway. To check out how the administration's plans are all laid out and what's next to come, use this index to help you quickly locate the information you need.
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
- Indexers' Guide to Project 2025
An index to Project 2025 Project 2025 is a 900-page document proposing major changes to the United States government with significant impact on the future of our nation. Given the length and scope of ...
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM