UKeiG Awards - photos

For anyone unable to attend Online Information 2006 last December, and hence unable to be at the presentation of our two awards:

• UKeiG Jason Farradane Award
• UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award

there are photographs of the presentations on the centre pages of Information World Review and on the Online Information Awards pages.

The winner of the 2006 Jason Farradane Award was the University of Warwick Library for the development of The Learning Grid, a revolutionary information and learning service. The blended service is a unique combination of a radical new library design, coupled with ground breaking operating practices, all supported by advanced information literacy training and learning support programmes for students.

The awards committee felt that this nomination strongly upholds the spirit of the Jason Farradane award - a strong desire to promote good information practice to the widest audience through the use of innovative information techniques and approaches. The Learning Grid will directly impact the lives of all students in the University of Warwick but its impact will be felt more widely as other institutions follow their lead across the world.

The winner of the 2006 Tony Kent Strix Award for advancing the field of information retrieval was Stella Dextre Clarke. The award is given in recognition of her sterling work in developing first the Government Category List and then its successor the Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary - known as IPSV (or "ippsvee" to its friends). IPSV is now one of the mandated elements of the UK Government's interoperability framework and is used throughout local government and the more enlightened parts of central government.

Stella's expansive expertise in the area of vocabulary is also widely recognised outside government circles. She has played a pivotal role in revising and updating BS 5723 (Structured vocabularies for information retrieval) chairing the working party and building international support for the conclusions. Stella's nomination upholds the spirit of the Tony Kent Strix award - an outstanding contribution to information retrieval - practically focused but grounded in the best principles of information science.

The call for nominations for the 2007 Awards will take place in April 2007. Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at:
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/index.html

Both awards are sponsored by SAGE Publications, a leading international publisher of journals, books and electronic media for scholarly, educational and professional markets.