Who could forget it!
12.03.2026 18:02
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Who could forget it!
Part of many brass bands repertoires and regularly played in the summer season.
Oh dear!
Half a life time ago I'd have applied for this. Good to see commitment to publishing archaeology continues in Oxford.
@baindex.org had a day out with @cilipmdg.bsky.social librarians and looked at the crossovers with indexers.
Would very much like to know which publisher. Indexing societies are concerned and keeping an eye on what is happening - see asindexing.org/category/ai-... @asindexing.bsky.social
A page from the index of our upcoming book. We love indexing.
Love a good thesaurus - we have a bunch for archaeology heritage-standards.org.uk/fish-vocabul...
Having a bit of a moment looking at the index of an archaeological report done by someone who has archaeological experience but has not been trained as indexer and it shows. No names, no pack drill, but this is why it is important to have someone trained and knowledgeable doing your indexes.
waterlogged IA in Scotland ...
And semantic satiation has got me today on palisades. Must get tea.
I had a super time talking about how much I enjoy indexing archaeological site reports, and keeping up with current research with @currentarchaeology.bsky.social (although a fair few of the articles are about books I have already worked on). And I got to talk about poo again! Fecal steroids!
Our March session featured indexer @nicolaking.bsky.social talking about indexing archaeology texts. These are published by a range of organizations – consultancies, societies, universities, museums as well as publishers.
and here's me indexing about Iron Age gates today.
#TinyJoys Being reminded of #WorldBookDay by some other social media when my offspring was 12 and went out as a hobbit with a wooden sword. He's 23 now.
That's a fabulous article.
Do you ever mention the index (or lack of) in your published reviews?
For something like the book discussed here, aimed at a big market, it shouldn't be an issue. Smaller popular market books, yes it could be a barrier, but it needn't be expensive and it improves the reader's experience. Yes I have skin in the game and AI isn't the answer.
Yup, even popular non-fiction needs an index. Readers notice and want better.
And I got distracted too.
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The supermarket is now open and the mosaic safe under the tarmac.
And even someone whose name I cannot type said if it did happen, it didn't affect the outcome!
#tinyjoys
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POTHOLES: It seems a pity that road surveyors have annexed the word pothole to denote the small dints made in our roads by motor-cars, for the word has long been in use in a far more classic way. All round the base of Ingleborough there are mighty pits, apparently bottomless, that have been worn out of the rock by the action of the water extending over hundreds of years. These, and these alone, are potholes, many of them known by some distinguishing name in addition. The greatest of all is the huge chasm of Gaping Ghyll, situated on the southern slope of Ingleborough. Why not call the holes in our roads "motor holes," for to the motor alone is their evil presence due.
Don’t call them “potholes,” call them “motor holes,” says @cyclinguk.bsky.social editorial in CTC Gazette, Feb 1917.
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