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Glossary of directory terms
The recurring vocabulary used across this index, defined in the sense the directory applies it. Where the wider trade uses a word more loosely, the entry says so.
- Category slate
- The complete published set of judged divisions for a single cycle.
- Ceremony cycle
- One full run of a programme, from slate publication through to announcement.
- Criteria document
- The published statement of what a division measures and how it is weighted.
- Discretionary division
- A heading decided by the programme itself, with no open entry route.
- Eligibility window
- The period during which the work under consideration had to take place.
- Embargo
- The interval between final scoring and public release of an outcome.
- Entry window
- The fixed period during which submissions are accepted.
- Jury panel
- The group scoring submissions in a division against its published criteria.
- Normalisation
- Adjusting scores from separate sub-panels onto one comparable scale.
- Open division
- A heading any entrant meeting the stated eligibility may submit to.
- Recusal
- A panellist standing back from a division where they hold a declared interest.
- Shortlist
- The reduced field carried from scoring into the verification stage.
- Sub-panel
- A smaller group judging a defined part of the slate.
- Verification round
- The stage in which claims are checked against supporting documentation.
- Weighting
- The proportion of a division's total score assigned to each criterion.