UKeiG Awards: still time to nominate someone

The closing date for nominations is September 15th - you still have time to nominate.

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.

Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at:
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/tonykentstrix.html

Nominations for the 2006 Award are 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 UKeiG Jason Farradane Award is offered to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the field of information science. 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:
• raising the profile of the information profession within anorganisation or field of endeavour in a way which can or has become an exemplar to others;
• raising the awareness of the value of information in theworkplace;
• development of a significant new information product or service;
• development of a product or service that has made a significant impact on the availability and accessibility of information.
Key characteristics that the judges will look for in nominations are innovation, initiative, originality and significance. 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.

Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at:
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/farradane.html

Nominations for the 2006 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full supporting documentation to:
Christine Baker
The Old Chapel
Walden, West Burton
Leyburn, North Yorkshire
DL8 4LE
Tel & Fax: 01969 663749
E-mail: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

Emptybottle.org - The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator

Friday afternoon has come early this week! Fed up with everyone going on about Web 2.0? Then head for Emptybottle's Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator. I particularly liked "harness rich-client folksomonies" and "capture semantic podcasts". If you want to join the web 2 crowd there is a link to Andrew Woolridge's Web 2.0 Company Name Generator. I opted for Tivodibo and the product geotag-based micropaments via shockwave. You can even have a logo designed for your new company designed free of charge at Web 2.0 Logo Creator.



Emptybottle suggests that you could ultimately sell your company to Yahoo but points out that profits are not guaranteed.

Online Information 2006

Like Christmas, the annual Online Information conference and exhibition is beginning to creep up on us. The event takes place between November 28th and the 30th in the Grand Hall at Olympia, London.

As usual UKeiG will be exhibiting and presenting. UKeiG members will be entitled to a 25% off the conference rate up until 3rd November and 15% thereafter. So keep an eye open for further publicity over the next few weeks.

New UKeiG Fact Sheet: Social Bookmarking

UKeiG has published a new factsheet on social book marking by Tracy Kent, including top tips, key facts and websites.

It is available in the members' area of the website in the Factsheet section.

Please contact Karen Blakeman (karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk) if you have forgotten your username and password.

If you aren't a member, you can find more information at
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html

Hard disc failure=lost emails :-(

Apologies if you have already seen this on the LIS discussion lists.

Some of you will have noticed from the auto-replies to private messages sent to me that I have been on hols for about 2 weeks. I am now back. That's the good news - OK, I know that's debatable :-)

The bad news is that a couple of hours after I had downloaded two weeks worth of email my PC's hard disk crashed in spectacular fashion. Of course Sod's Law was in operation and I had also deleted the downloaded email from my ISP's server. Deleting everything from the ISP mail server was a I habit I developed in the early days of the Internet when ISPs charged an arm, a leg and several pints of blood to store more than a few kb of messages for more than a few days. A practice that I have today abandoned!

Everything that I received up until midday 29th July was backed up but anything between then and midday August 15th has gone. So if you have sent me any emails during that period could you please re-send them? Especially those of you who sent me emails requesting user names and passwords for access to the members area of the UKeiG web site.

Many thanks

Karen Blakeman