Website Index Awards
History
In 1996 Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) (formerly Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI)) awarded a Web Index Prize. This continued annually until 2001.
From 2001 the ANZSI Web Indexing Prize wasreplaced by an ANZSI Web Index Award which was awarded to any site at any time. The criteria for the award was that the site index maked a useful contribution to the retrieval of information from the site. Sites that qualifyed were entitled to display the icon shown below. This could be linked to a page on the ANZSI site giving the details of the award and listing awarded sites. The endorsement was valid for 2 years, and after that time the Web Manager could resubmit their site to have the endorsement renewed. ANZSI website endorsement was available to any site worldwide.
In 2006 ANZSI decided to no longer offer the ANZSI Web Indexing Award. This has now been taken over by the Web Indexing SIG Award.
Web Indexing SIG Award
To encourage high quality web site indexes and to promote the web indexing work of professional indexers, the Web Indexing Special Interest Group of the American Society of Indexers will begin awarding a deserving indexer the annual Web Indexing SIG Award for excellence in web site indexing.
2008 Award Winners
- First Place - Rebecca Linford, UK Index to the English Department at the University of Dundee, Scotland
- Second Place - Michael Unwalla, UK Index to TechScribe
The nomination entry period for 2009 will begin in November or December 2008. Eligibility requirements and contact information is available on the Web Indexing SIG website
2001 - 2006 ANZSI Web Indexing Award
- Writer's Block, indexed by Fred Brown
- Queensland Environmental Protection Agency's website, indexed by Patricia Kennedy.
This award was renewed in 2006. - Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine site index
- Comments on recipients.
2000 Web Indexing Prize Winner
- Subject Guide to the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency by Patricia Kennedy, Librarian
- Comments on entrants
1999 No Winner
1998 Web Indexing Prize Winner
- Tasmania Online by State Library of Tasmania
- Details of other entrants
1997 Web Indexing Prize Winner
- Faculty of Education Internet Guide by Christabel Wescombe, Fisher Library, University of Sydney
- Details of other entrants
1996 Web Indexing Prize Winner
- Alan Wilson, Webmaster, Australian Parliamentary Library for a simple index to the information available from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library's site and from other departments of the Australian Parliament. It also includes some related information available elsewhere.
- Details of other entrants
