Madelon Franssen

Currently #indexing Securing Civil Rights: Contemporary Problems and Policies.

Currently #indexing Why EDI Matters: Equ(al)ity, Diversity and Inclusion in European Universities.

The Indexer Home The journal seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(3), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about Chinese language indexing, natural-language processing and indexing, the ASI 2025 conference and National Indexing Day 2025, and more!

Currently #indexing Het Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe: 90 Jaar Actief Beheer & Biodiversiteit.

I just returned from Birmingham, where I spoke at the Society of Indexers (@indexers.bsky.social) conference #SIConf25. It was a great conference!

It is kind of terrifying having one of your clients speak during the "working with authors" panel discussion, but this worked out really well! Thank you, Jane, for your kind words! #SIConf25

Currently #indexing De belichaming van emoties.

Arrived in Birmingham for #SIConf25 yesterday evening. Lovely to see friends again and talk about nothing but #indexing for the next three days!

My current indexing project discusses early modern book use, mostly focusing on marginalia, but also on readers creating their own indexes! The author even included photos of the indexes. I am, once again, a happy indexer.

Starting a new book, and thanks to my Canadian colleagues, I have a perfect bookmark. 🐦

Currently #indexing The Great Book of the World: The Formation and Use of the Library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641).

Currently #indexing De vervlogen wereld van Marie, gravin van Bylandt.

Currently #indexing De lucht klaren: Een hoopvolle gids om het klimaatprobleem op te lossen in 50 vragen en antwoorden.

Currently #indexing Mad Fictions: Psychiatry, Disability, and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature.

Currently #indexing Therapeut, vergeet jezelf niet!

Currently #indexing Fragments: Medieval Makers, Modern Responses.

I just booked my hotel for this conference, where I will be presenting a breakout session on "breaking the rules" in indexing!

The two (completely unrelated) books I am indexing today discuss the exact same obscure topic. This feels like an actual glitch in the matrix.

Currently #indexing Research Methods in Publishing and Book Studies (🤩)

The Indexer Home The journal seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(2), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about periodical indexing, using diacritics, trends in embedded indexing, and more!

Currently #indexing Remembering Hope: The Cultural Afterlife of Protest.

Currently #indexing Intimacies of Global Sufism: Neʿmatullahi Shrines and Material Culture Between Iran and India.

Currently #indexing Non-use Measures for Global Goods and Commons in International Law.

“wonders: chicken incident” has to be my favorite index entry.

You know that your index is almost finished when it reaches 10.000 entries and your software shuts down every 5 minutes because it can’t handle it anymore.

Happy #IndexDay to my indexing colleagues, as well as all the authors, readers, and publishing professionals who know the value of a good index. Follow @indexers.bsky.social for more indexing posts on this special day!

The background is a blue luminescent foil, overlaid with the blue cover of the Indexer placed on the right, with the text in white sans serif font reading 'The Indexer, Volume 43, Issue 1.'

Volume 43.1 features work on book indexing in Japan, an exploration of qualitative research and book indexing, and a survey on embedded indexing: bit.ly/Index43-1 @djbduncan.bsky.social @indexers.bsky.social ‪@baindex.org @exterindexing.bsky.social @closereadingie.bsky.social @nicolaking.bsky.social

The latest issue of The Indexer is available now, with articles by @ivacheung.com, @stephenullstrom.bsky.social, conference reports from @exterindexing.bsky.social and @tanyaizzard.bsky.social, book reviews and the usual round-up of good and bad indexes #IndexSky

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

Same, but in an indexing context! Author talks about something in a vague manner and I think "yes, I know the perfect term for this topic!" and the term is mentioned in the next sentence. 🥸