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The Tony Kent Strix Award
Nominations for the 2005 Award are now invited
The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding
contribution to the field of information retrieval 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 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 will be judged by a panel of experts,
including the recipient of the previous year's Award,
and the statuette of an owl will be presented to the
winner at the CILIP Umbrella Awards Dinner in Manchester (30th June).
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 science
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:
2004 Keith van Rijsbergen
2003 Herbert Van de Sompel
2002 Malcolm Jones
2001 Professor Peter Willett
2000 Dr Martin Porter
1999 Dr Donna Harman
1998 Professor Stephen Robertson
Nominations for the 2005 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: [log in to unmask]
The closing date for nominations is Friday May 20th 2005
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