Since we are PI (Potomac Indexing), we’ve always held the mathematical constant, π, close to our hearts and use it in our logo. So, today being π day, we are duly celebrating the usefulness of this great and ultimately impossible-to-pin-down number (more on π’s wonderfully irrational and transcendental qualities at Wikipedia, here). Pi and Indexing As indexers and taxonomists, […]
Matching Job Titles Across Cultures
Here at PI, we like to humanize the search process for lots of different categories of knowledge. Two projects we worked on last year epitomized the need that many information providers have to make sure that their search keywords and taxonomic structures are complete in the sense that they have enough of the right sorts […]
So Many Jobs!
Not sure I’ve ever been bored as an indexer and taxonomist, and this latest project is no exception. The whole big idea isn’t finished yet, so I’ll leave client identity out of this post, but I “rolled off the project” as the corporate folks put it, last week. Unlike most of my book indexing projects, […]
