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The 4th Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial Lecture 2018 is to be delivered by Maarten de Rijke, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam, and will take place on the this afternoon (Friday, 23rd November 2018) at The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.

The 2018 Strix Lecture is entitled: 'Retrieval as Interaction.'

The Strix Lecture is organised by the UK eInformation Group (UKeiG), in partnership with the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK (ISKO UK), the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (RSC CICAG) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG),

You can watch a live stream of the event starting at 13.30 by clicking on this link: http://geolsoc.adobeconnect.com/ukeig1811/ sign up with your name or email address.

Programme and topics

1.30 Registration

2.00 Douglas Veal - Chairman's welcome

2.10 - Stella Dextre Clarke, 2006 Winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award, reflects on 'Then and Now: Contrasts in the retrieval environment'. Now retired from consultancy in information management, she is still active as Vice-Chair of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International society for knowledge Organization).

2.45 - Questions & Discussion

3.00 - Tea & coffee

3.45 - The Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor de Rijke

4.30 Questions & discussion

5.00 Meeting closes

 

Please circulate this announcement to colleagues across your institution who may benefit from watching this lecture.

 

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