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ASI Announces Winner of the 2025 Indexing Awards

ASI Announces Winner of the 2025 Indexing Awards

The American Society for Indexing is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Indexing Awards. Stephen Ullstrom won in the Scholarly/Technical category for Dialectics of the Big Bang and the Absolute Existence of the Multiverse by Gregory Phipps, published by the...
Celebrate National Indexing Day on November 18

Celebrate National Indexing Day on November 18

The American Society for Indexing (ASI) has designated November 18 as National Indexing Day to celebrate the making and using of indexes. Indexing is a largely hidden and important part of the publishing industry. Indexes are created for print publications such as...
Join us for ASI’s next Indexing Playground

Join us for ASI’s next Indexing Playground

Indexing Playground November 19, 2025 10 am Pacific | 11 am Mountain | 12 pm Central | 1 pm Eastern Join us for ASI’s next Indexing Playground—where indexers get to take a well-earned break from working to chat with other indexers. This informal Zoom gathering...
Statement on AI and Book Indexing

Statement on AI and Book Indexing

As part of ASI’s continuing commitment to excellence in indexing, ASI has formed a committee to investigate potential impacts of AI on indexing. The committee’s tests indicate that AI tools based on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, do not...
AI-Indexing: Usability review

AI-Indexing: Usability review

Prepared by ASI AI Committee AI-Indexing is web-based indexing software developed by Ben Vagle. It employs large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) to select terms for indexing, detect duplicates, and suggest relationships. Although AI-Indexing is not...