What is the DNI?

• DNI is a group of indexing specialists based in the German-speaking countries and/or working in German.
• DNI covers every aspect of indexing in the field of print and digital media – book and journal indexing in particular, but also web site and database indexes.
• DNI aims to act as a gathering-point for all topics relevant to indexing and is open to everyone with a serious interest in professional indexing.

Purpose of DNI

• Publicity: promoting awareness of professional indexing – both among the general public and in publishing companies and commercial companies
• Contacts: expanding contacts among indexers and related organizations in the German-speaking countries and contacts with indexers and the related specialist organizations abroad
• Practice: improving the quality of indexes in German publishing and in the IT field, particularly through services provided by DNI members to publishers, companies, and authors interested in obtaining professional indexes
• Theory: promoting the theory of modern indexing methods – e.g., through publications, reviews, meetings, and helping to establish standards
• Debate: establishing a focus for debate on every aspect of indexing – particularly methods, software, different types of index, and indexing of various genres and different types of media

Membership of DNI

• Concern with modern aspects of indexing
• Awareness of the differences between subject indexing and concordances
• Recognition that automatic indexing, using automatic interpretation of the text, leads to worthless results
• A professional background

• Membership of another indexing society
• Familiarity with the specialist literature and other resources
• Participation in conferences, workshops, and other types of training event on indexing
• Tools and software: everything from a shoe-box with index cards to XML is permissible, as long as the process does not involve simple extraction of text words

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