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The Indexer's WebRing

Indexing Resources on the WWW

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 Societies 

American Society of Indexers

Australian Society of Indexers

Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada

Society of Indexers

 Software 

Cindex

HTML Indexer - software to help index Web pages/sites.

HTML/Prep - utility for converting indexes to HTML.

Macrex - can now handle indexing of Web pages/sites as well as traditional media.

SKY Index

 Metadata 

Candy Schwartz, Metadata - a bibliography covering both traditional and online sources.

Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources - page of the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) site.

Dublin Core

How To Use HTML Meta Tags - by Danny Sullivan, of Search Engine Watch.

Metacrap - argues that human nature will limit the usefulness of metadata.

Metadata Activity - a readable summary of work, completed or in progress, at W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium).

Metadata Principles and Practicalities - article by Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton and Stuart L. Weibel.

MetaNet - a metadata term thesaurus which provides the additional semantic knowledge that is non-existent within declarative XML-encoded metadata descriptions. Described in an article by Jane Hunter.

UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking) pages.

XFML - eXchangable Faceted Metadata Language, an open XML format for publishing and connecting faceted metadata between websites.

 Web indexing 

American Society of Indexers: Indexing the Web

Indexing the World Wide Web - a page of the Australian Society of Indexers website.