JUDGING
JUDGING PROCESS
The AIMIA Awards are being judged by panel of industry experts. An international panel is drawn from all facets of the digital media industry, including people from the media, design companies, games companies, interactive television developers and broadcasters, film and television producers and broadcasters, telecommunications companies, museums, universities, consumer groups and government.
The AIMIA Awards judging panel is again chaired by Paul McCarthy, and up to eight judges are assigned for each of the awards categories.
Each judge is assigned to assess a specific category aligned with their expertise, experience and interest and in which their organisation has no entries. In the event a conflict arises between a judge and an entry in the category they have been assigned, the Chair of the Awards Committee may substitute a judge, or arrange for judges to swap categories.
Judges will be assessing the entries in each category over using an online voting process. Judges will award each entry a possible score out of 100, based on seven criteria. See Judging Criteria for more details.
Because judging is all online, judges can assess entries from wherever they like and complete judging at a time that is convenient. Because of the lead time required for best of best and the award ceremony itself no extensions can be made, and in the event that individual judges do not complete their voting by the deadline, those judges scores will be removed from the voting.
Extra judging materials
While most works entered in the AIMIA awards are online, some may have offline component,s to support the entry, such as print or DVD. Where offline material is required, entrants have provided AIMIA with hard copies of their work that will be sent by express post to judges. All judges with hard copy materials we be notified before distributed.
Timetable
Judging will begin on Monday 21st November 2011, for a period of 3 weeks, closing on Friday 9th December 2011. Failure to complete by this time means that all of your scoring will be removed from the judging aggregate.