Subject: Web Indexing Prize 97 winners
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:38:15 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130534b0ebc57cace1@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:38:15 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: Web Indexing Prize 97 winners
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 20, 1998
AUSTRALIAN WEB INDEXING PRIZE RESULTS
An interesting announcement forwarded from the Visual Resources
Association about a web indexing prize organized by the Australian
Society of Indexers. Many readers might be interested in examining the
websites organized by the winners.
David Green
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>Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:34:01 +1000
>Reply-To: Visual Resources Association <VRA-L@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
>Sender: Visual Resources Association <VRA-L@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
>From: Jennifer Brasher <J.Brasher@ins.gu.edu.au>
>Subject: Web Indexing Prize 97 winners
>To: VRA-L@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU
..
>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:24:35 +1000
>From: Australian Society of Indexers Webmaster <aussi@zeta.org.au>
>Subject: Web Indexing Prize 97 winners
>
> The Australian Society of Indexers is proud to announce the winner of
> the 1997 Web Indexing Prize as:
>
> FIRST:
>
> Christobel Wescombe <c.wescombe@library.usyd.edu.au>
> Fisher Library, University of Sydney
> Faculty of Education Internet Guide
> http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/Guides/Education/
>
> SECOND:
>
> Ann Treacy <atreacy@mr.net>
> MRNet
> Minneapolis, USA
> an index for Minnesota web sites
> http://www.mnonline.org/uffda/
>
> THIRD:
>
> Graham Greenleaf, Geoffrey King, Daniel Austin <graham@austlii.edu.au>
> AustLII, UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law, Sydney
> AustLII's World Law Index (including Project DIAL)
> http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/World/
>
> Full details on all entries are available at:
>
> http://www.zeta.org.au/~aussi/web97winners.html
>
> It was a very hard choice between high powered Web database engines
> and handcrafted annotated guides. There were some very good online
> book indexes, some very good site indexes and several database indexes
> such as for genealogy, computer crime and the FBI exceptional cases.
> The breadth included Transformer fanfic (fan written fiction), Western
> Australian aboriginal language handbooks, North Queensland special
> catalogue subheadings. There were sites on Australian current affairs
> with links to online newspapers, state library collations of links
> related to their state and recreational networks of outlets for the
> disabled. It took us hours to wade through them all!
>
> One thing is for sure: since last year there are many more sophisticated
> methods for searching out and indexing large amounts of online text.
> People are using databases and Web add-ons to their Word processing to
> create these huge databases. The sheer mass of information is making
> people either hand-sort the material using human intellect or use large
> search engines to tie in all the loose ends.
>
> I trust you will enjoy browsing through the many and varied ways indexes
> are coming to the fore these days in the online arena!
>
> Become part of Web indexing! Get in touch with AusSI to enter next year's
> prize.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> The Judges:
> Dwight Walker (Webmaster, Australian Society of Indexers)
> Alan Wilson (Librarian, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, Australia)
> -------
> Dwight Walker
> Webmaster
> Australian Society of Indexers, Sydney, NSW, Australia
> +61-2-98902691 (h) +61-(0)412-405727 (mobile), fax +61-2-97772058
> ICQ chat id wwwalker, no. 4631678 (www.mirabilis.com)
> URL: http://www.zeta.org.au/~aussi
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Jennifer Brasher
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