At PI, we specialize in team projects. Whether it’s collaboration among the partners on business matters or a larger project involving associates, like our embedded indexing work for O’Reilly Media, collaboration comes up in some form in everything we do. Benefits of collaboration Working together has obvious benefits, like sharing the workload to meet tight […]
Building an Online Library
Here at PI, we are finding more small-scale consulting and special interest businesses looking to build virtual libraries of information for their users. And they are often coming from a place where they don’t quite know what “pieces” they need to get this done in a way that’s useful. Their project is too big for […]
Book Indexes: Too Much or to Little?
In a recent post we discussed the problem of “passing mentions” related to names in indexes and the strings of “undifferentiated locators” that may result. This problem applies to any topic covered in the index, though, not just names. When you put the two together (passing mentions and lots of page numbers) you have the […]
