Resources: Index Peer Reviews
To promote better quality web site indexes, the Web Indexing SIG encourages the use of its discussion group for obtaining feedback from others on web site indexes created.
This is an informal type of peer review program. Discussion list members who have created a web site index can post the URL to the discussion list and solicit feedback. If the index is to an intranet or not-yet-published web site, then the index creator can solicit a limited number of reviewers to whom he/she will send just the index page file (as an e-mail attachment) without the entire web site. This is still acceptable for obtaining feedback, although the feedback cannot be as comprehensive without accessing the referenced pages. This is in fact how back-of-the-book indexes are often reviewed by peers, who do not have access to the full book.
Requests for web index reviews are not limited to Web Indexing SIG members but may be requested by anyone on this list. (While discussion list membership does not require SIG membership, it does nevertheless require moderator approval.)
There is no formal tracking of who requests reviews and who gives reviews, and reviewing need not be a mutual exchange between the same people, but it is hoped that if you request for an index to be reviewed, that you offer a review to someone else at some other time. Reviewing someone else's index is also a beneficial learning experience.
You don't need to be an experienced web site indexer to offer feedback. Just consider the index's merit's as a user. Those individuals experienced in book indexing could review a web site index as well as they can review a book index.
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