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Nominations for the Tony Kent Strix Award
The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval. The Award is sponsored by Sage Publications.
Nominations are now invited for the 2006 Award. Nominations should be for achievement that meets one or more of the following criteria:
* development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms for the retrieval of information, either generally or in a specialised field;
* development of, or significant improvement in, accessibility to an information service;
* a sustained contribution over a period of years to the field of information retrieval; for example, by running an information service or by contributing at national or international level to organisations active in the field;
* a major and/or sustained contribution to the theoretical or experimental understanding of the information retrieval process;
* a major contribution to fostering the education, training and/or general awareness of the importance and the technicalities of information retrieval.
Key characteristics that the judges will look for in nominations are innovation, initiative, originality and practicality. The Award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.
Nominations should take the form of a short description (no more than 3 sides of A4) of the work in question, together with full contact details of both the nominee and the nominator. Do not forget to include any documentation, references or URLs which may support the nomination. Nominations should reach the judges by Friday September 15th 2006.
Nominations will be judged by a panel of experts, and the statuette of an owl will be presented to the winner during the annual Online Information Meeting in London in late November.
The Strix Award is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information retrieval and information services both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry. The name Strix was chosen both to reflect Tony's interest in ornithology, and the name of one of the last and most successful information retrieval packages which he created.
Past winners have been:
2005 Jack Mills
2004 Professor Cornelis Joost (Keith) van Rijsbergen
2003 Dr Herbert van Sompel
2002 Malcolm Jones
2001 Professor Peter Willett
2000 Dr Martin Porter
1999 Dr Donna Harman
1998 Professor Stephen Robertson
Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at:
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/tonykentstrix.html
Nominations for the 2006 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full supporting documentation to:
Alan Gilchrist,
32 Friar Road,
Brighton BN1 6NH
UK.
Tel: 01273 705226
E-mail: cura@fastnet.co.uk
The closing date for nominations is Friday September 15th 2006.
Notes:
UKeiG is an established professional group for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. The Group encourages communication and the exchange of best practice and knowledge across all sectors; and offers an e-journal, a mailing list, an annual programme of training courses; and an array of awards and burseries. UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014.
SAGE Publications (www.sagepublications.com) is a leading international publisher of journals, books and electronic media for scholarly, educational and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. SAGE Publications, a privately owned corporation, has principal offices in London, United Kingdom; Thousand Oaks, California; and New Delhi, India.
