UKeiG presents two prestigious awards
Last week saw UKeiG Chair, Martin White, involved in the presentation of
our two most prestigious awards: the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award and the
UKeiG Jason Farradane Award. On Monday 30th November Martin joined the
Strix Committee Chair, Doug Veal, at the RSC "Celebrating the history of
chemical information" meeting to present the Tony Kent Strix 'Owl
Trophy' and a certificate to Professor Michael Lynch, while Wednesday
saw him at the CILIP stand in the exhibition area of Online Information
2010, presenting the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award to Dr Shawky Salem.
Michael Lynch's nomination for the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award was based
on the first two award criteria, which the judges felt made a strong
case. The nomination stated that his main contribution to a theoretical
understanding of the information retrieval process was an extended
analysis of the role of frequencies of occurrence of database
characteristics on the efficiency of database searching. This approach,
named variety generation, was first developed in the design of screening
systems for chemical substructure searching, but was then shown to be
applicable to increasing the efficiency of processing for a range of
text-based phenomena, including compression, sorting and signature
searching. In terms of the second criteria, the development of, or
significant improvement in, mechanisms, a product or service for the
retrieval of information, it was felt that, whilst at CAS Mike Lynch
carried out some of the first experiments anywhere in the world on the
use of computers for the creation and searching of both textual and
chemical databases, work that led to the first version of the CAS
Registry Service, the world's premier information resource in chemistry.
His work at Sheffield led directly to systems in use throughout the
world for chemical substructure searching, for indexing databases of
chemical reactions, and for the indexing and searching of the generic
structures in chemical patents.
Shawky Salem's citation for the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award makes
reference to his unique role in the ILS Profession in his region, as a
part of a team working together to promote advocacy for the Profession
and to provide wider access to information, and a "perfect use of
electronic resources", so as to enrich cultural activities in both the
Arab World and Canada. More specifically highlighted are the development
of the first Arabic Edition of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) in
1982; the creation of a new department, Knowledge Management and
Informatics (KMI) in Beirut Arab University (BAU) in 2002; supervision
and discussion of over 18 PhD and 21 MA thesis in Alexandria University
and other Universities in Egypt; his creation of the grant with IFLA,
the SSCG (Shawky Salem Conference Grant), and of the Prize for KMI
(Knowledge Management and Informatics) with the Academy of Scientific
Research and Technology in Egypt; and - of course - his writings.
Further information about both award winners, and the awards, can be
found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards
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