Professional Integrity in Partnership
No matter what your content strategy and information access needs may be, Potomac Indexing can pull everything together for you. Saving time and assuring quality products in indexing, copyediting, proofreading, and taxonomy support; that’s our mission. We provide continuous and reliable resources to keep up with your changing world.
We are a partnership of five consulting professionals, supported by a large team of talented and experienced indexing and information specialists. With decades of combined experience and expertise in multiple areas, we provide clients with the individualized attention of a boutique consulting firm and the proven ability to assemble and deploy teams specific to the needs of the project, whether you are an individual author, traditional press, startup company, or established enterprise.
We can get it done for you. Just contact us for an initial conversation about taking care of your information access needs.
What PI Can Do for You
Indexes for Printed Books
The printed book seems to be alive and thriving, and you will likely find that non-fiction publishing requirements in your organization include indexes. Even if you are self-publishing, you may need an index to enhance the sales value of a longer non-fiction book or make your book a better reference companion for your courses or workshops.
Indexes for Digital Resources
Digital publishing (for example, ebooks)—with specialized tools such as XML-based embedded tags and indexing for software like InDesign and Microsoft Word—creates a new set of challenges for publishers and authors alike. Your traditional for-print index won’t work as-is in an ebook for example, where “page numbers” suddenly become irrelevant.
Copy Editing & Proofreading
If you also need copy/line editing or proofreading for your content, our partners and associates can offer a great depth and breadth of knowledge accumulated over years of working with books. Many of our indexer associates have expanded into these areas or started there and added indexing later. It’s a partnership of skill sets.
Taxonomy and Content Strategy
So, your startup isn’t quite a startup anymore, and now your website has organically grown into a monster where you and your clients/customers are having trouble finding what they need to make comparisons, assess your product or service’s benefits (maybe you now have three or four deliverables instead of one), and make an informed purchase or contract.
