Once again Internet Librarian International played host to the UKeiG Awards presentations, which took place at the beginning of the Keynote Paper on Day 2. UKeiG had received nominations for both the Jason Farradane and the Tony Kent Strix Awards and deserving winners were found for both.
The Jason Farradane Award went to Professor Charles Oppenheim who - as the nomination says "is surely one of the outstanding UK figures in information science" having moved between work in the information industry and academia resulting in professorships in two departments of information science and a research centre. During his career, Professor Oppenheim has published widely and his interests include legal issues in the library and information profession, particularly copyright, data protection and freedom of information, as well as research evaluation, citation studies and bibliometrics, open access, scholarly communication and the digital library. The award was made by David Ball, Honorary Secretary of UKeiG. Pictures of the presentation and further details of both the award and the winner can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/jason-farradane.
The Tony Kent Strix Award is presented by UKeiG in partnership with the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC CICAG); the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK Chapter (ISKO UK) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) and is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval in its widest sense - thus, for example, including both search and data mining.
The 2013 Award went to Professor W Bruce Croft, Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA. Bruce Croft formed the Centre for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) in 1991, since when he and his students have worked with more than 90 industry and government partners on research and technology projects and have produced more than 900 papers. Bruce Croft has made major contributions to most areas of information retrieval, including pioneering work in clustering, passage retrieval, sentence retrieval, and distributed search.
Doug Veal (Chair of the Strix Award Panel and representing award sponsors, RCS-CICAG) made the presentation to Stephen Robertson who received the trophy on behalf of the winner. Also in the awards party was Diane Heath, representing the Award's second sponsor, ASLIB: The Association for Information Management. Again, pictures of the presentation and further details of both the award and the winner can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/tony-kent-strix.
Calls for nominations for both 2014 awards will be published early in the new year.
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Sheila Thomas BA MCLIP MWeldI MBCS
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