ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: Regular Expressions with Larisa Smyk
Regular Expressions are useful for assisting indexers in automating repetitive tasks, serving as a kind of "advanced search" mechanism to find, extract, edit, or remove patterns of text.
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ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: Iva Cheung
Cheung covers the definition of plain language and indexing's role in meeting that definition, the development of the indexing clause in the Plain Language standard, and that clause’s possible impact on indexers.
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ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: AI Initiatives with Elizabeth Bartmess
AI chatbots don't produce viable indexes, but works that appear sufficiently like indexes that they may trick people into believing they can serve as an index. Where do we go from here?
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ISC/SCI Virtual Conference 2026: Keynote Speaker Danny Bate!
Danny Bate’s keynote address "Who ordered the alphabet?" will be an anti-chronological journey into the English alphabet. The theme: nothing about our alphabet is fixed. Register now: conference.indexers.ca
Registration is now LIVE for the 2026 ISC/SCI Virtual Conference, Sorting It Out! Please visit conference.indexers.ca to register for the conference April 10-11, as well as extra events like the fireside chats on Thursday, April 9. Early bird registration ends March 15, 2025, so don’t wait!
The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is pleased to announce that Rhonda Kronyk is the 2025 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary recipient. Read more at indexers.ca/2025-diversi...
Submissions for the 2026 ISC/SCI Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing is now open! The deadline for submissions is March 16, 2026. Please visit indexers.ca/ewart-davelu... for guidelines, criteria, and the submission form.
Caroline Diepeveen Presents “Large, Larger, Largest: How to handle large and complicated indexing assignments” at the ISC/SCI Vancouver Conference, happening May 31-June 1! Register now at www.conference.indexers.ca
Parliamentary indexing is a niche market. The skills needed include indexing multi-authored works, maintenance of extensive authority lists, working with a team of indexers on the same sessional indexes. Kim Christie has been the Index Team Lead for Hansard Services at the LA of BC since 2022.
Register now at www.conference.indexers.ca for Kim Christie's presentation “B.C. Hansard Index: a roadmap to parliamentary debates" to learn about some of the unique and interesting aspects of Hansard indexing, including a live demo (time permitting).
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Join Emma W. Johnson’s session “What Not to Index: A Flow Chart for Passing Mentions” at the ISC/SCI Vancouver conference: Location, Location, Location! Here, she’ll share her strategies for working with passing mentions, including a flow chart for reducing decision fatigue during indexing.
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
Catch “AI: Where You Can Use It and Where You Shouldn't” at the ISC/SCI Vancouver Conference with Elizabeth Bartmess, who will cover how AI models (like ChatGPT) work, why you should not use it to index content, and how AI will affect indexing.
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Announcing the Sunday workshop at the 2025 ISC/SCI Vancouver Conference!
Watch Stephen Ullstrom work in “Every Entry in Its Place: A Live Indexing Workshop” as he indexes a trade book he has not read before. He will talk through his decisions as he works.
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Michelle Guiliano's "'X' Marks the Spot: Uncovering the right rate for your indexing services" will help you learn how to streamline your rate-setting that can take away any second-guessing and the fear of missing out on a job.
Join us at the ISC/SCI 2025 conference (May 29-April 1) in beautiful Vancouver, BC, for the session "Indexing Conundrums with Max McMaster". He will lead participants through a number of those “what do I do now" dilemmas in an interactive session.
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