About Wine Diva

About Wine Diva

Wine Diva was developed by Indexat, an Australian company specialising in classification and indexing. Wine Diva is the company's first undertaking to produce an Internet directory for a specific industry. The web-savvy wine industry was chosen because it is a many-faceted horticultural industry which related to the interests and skills of the project team.

Wine Diva has been developed by working closely with users to ensure the site is effective and quick and easy to use. This careful design process coupled with the latest database and web technology has enabled us to develop searching options that are powerful and refined.

Future plans include the production of regional maps. We are also examining options for translating Wine Diva into other languages.

Most importantly the future is also about feedback from our users so we can constantly develop and keep up-to-date with trends.

IndexAt indexes both print based and electronic media. We also provide project management services on large projects. More about IndexAt.

At the Wine Industry Expo 2002
From right: Kate, Caroline, Madeleine, Anne

Our people

• Caroline Colton (director)
• Kate Lyons-Dawson (indexer)
• Toni Paterson (consulting wine writer)
• Julie Donnellan (consulting wine & food writer)
• Madeleine Davis (indexer and teacher)

Caroline Colton

Caroline has been an information professional for twenty years. She qualified as a librarian in 1981 and worked for government and private enterprise before establishing her own information and research business in 1988. Over time the business came to specialise in indexing and classification.

Not wanting to have a desk jockey's life all the time she qualified as a horticulturalist in 1992. She has been out in the garden ever since, other people's and as well as her own. In 2000 she established a landscape design business Landscape Botanica.

Wine Diva is something of a fusion, between her love of the word, plants and wine. "It has been a tremendous challenge and great fun and the best is yet to come", says Caroline.

Kate Lyons-Dawson

Kate has had significant experience in information management in Australia, the UK, and the United States, in public, academic and specialist libraries. Her library work includes database management, cataloguing and classification, systems appraisal and thesaurus construction.

Kate's areas of responsibility have included the management and conservation of audiovisual collections and materials. She has held the position of project manager, within an NGO, responsible for the establishment of a database of resources related to environmental and world development issues both online and on CD-ROM media, as well as development and delivery of the client training. As a publications assistant she has performed editing, abstract writing, and proofreading.

Kate's background and undergraduate qualifications are in Fine Arts, with postgraduate qualifications in Information Management. She successfully completed the book indexing and computer-aided indexing workshops run by the University of New South Wales and the Australian Society of Indexers.

Toni Paterson

Fascinated by aromas and flavours from an early age, wine and food have been lifelong passions of Toni Paterson. Initially trained as a scientist, Toni quickly made the change to winemaking after studying for a Masters in Oenology. With six vintages under her belt, producing red, white and sparkling wine styles, Toni travelled to Europe where she worked in the promotion and marketing of Australian wine. Based in the UK, she undertook and passed the Masters of Wine examinations, and was accredited in November 2002. Toni was also awarded the prestigious Madame Lily Bollinger Medal for tasting.
Toni is now based in Sydney where she is working as a consultant and writer.

Julie Donnellan

Julie first worked for Wine Diva in late 2003 promoting the web site and its services at the Wine Industry Expo in the Barossa Valley. In 2004 Julie was appointed Marketing Diva and effectively spread the word about Wine Diva throughout South Australia and Victoria. She is indeed a Diva and unfortunately this was recognised by Veritas Winery who headhunted her in 2006.

Julie is a very talented writer and continues to write articles for Wine Diva about wine, food and Australia's wine regions.

Julie has a broad background in both the wine and hospitality industries. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in wine marketing, public relations, and hospitality which includes such areas as cellar door, food and wine promotional events, food services management in restaurants and catering. She has worked as a consultant in her own business promoting food and wine products as well as festivals and other events. She has experience in market research, hospitality recruitment and business development. Julie also currently lectures part-time in wine studies, bar operations, restaurant services and cookery.

Julie has degrees in Wine Marketing from the University of Adelaide; Arts from Latrobe University and Certificates in Business Management, Hospitality Management and Workplace Training.

Julie's extensive background in the wine and hospitality industries is reflected in her articles.

Toni Paterson

Fascinated by aromas and flavours from an early age, wine and food have been lifelong passions of Toni Paterson. Initially trained as a scientist, Toni quickly made the change to winemaking after studying for a Masters in Oenology. With six vintages under her belt, producing red, white and sparkling wine styles, Toni travelled to Europe where she worked in the promotion and marketing of Australian wine. Based in the UK, she undertook and passed the Masters of Wine examinations, and was accredited in November 2002. Toni was also awarded the prestigious Madame Lily Bollinger Medal for tasting.
Toni is now based in Sydney where she is working as a consultant and writer.

Madeleine Davis

Madeleine creates indexes for books, journals and websites in a wide range of arts and humanities subjects. Her specialisations include legal indexing, thesaurus and metadata construction. She also teaches research on the Internet.

Madeleine is currently engaged in indexing the World Law Catalog on the web site of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a joint project of the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales.

Links

Links to related organisations:

• Index@
• Landscape Botanica