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News from UKeiG
Wednesday 29 November 2006
For immediate release (Please copy to online discussion lists)
Tony Kent Strix Award – Winner Announcement
UKeiG is delighted to award the Tony Kent Strix Award for advancing the
field of information retrieval to Stella Dextre Clarke. The award is given
in recognition of her sterling work in developing first the Government
Category List and then its successor the Integrated Public Sector
Vocabulary - known as IPSV (or "ippsvee" to its friends). IPSV is now one
of the mandated elements of the UK Government's interoperability framework
and is used throughout local government and the more enlightened parts of
central government.
Stella's expansive expertise in the area of vocabulary is also widely
recognised outside government circles. She has played a pivotal role in
revising and updating BS 5723 (Structured vocabularies for information
retrieval) chairing the working party and building international support
for the conclusions. Stella's nomination upholds the spirit of the Tony
Kent Strix award - an outstanding contribution to information retrieval -
practically focused but grounded in the best principles of information
science.
The award was presented to the Stella Dextre Clarke on Wednesday 29th
November, during the annual Online Information Meeting and was sponsored by
SAGE Publications.
About the Tony Kent Strix Award
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 retrieval 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 that he created.
It is expected that the call for nominations for the 2007 Award will take
place in April 2007.
Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at:
www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/tonykentstrix.html
Notes to Editors:
The Tony Kent Strix Award is made by UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, a
special interest group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals. Through its activities, UKeiG encourages
communication and the exchange of best practice and knowledge across all
sectors and offers an e-journal, a mailing list, an annual programme of
training courses and an array of awards and bursaries. For more details
about UKeiG, please go to www.ukeig.org.uk
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is
the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and
knowledge managers, with around 23,000 members working in all sectors,
including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher
education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the
voluntary sector, national and public libraries. For more information
about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk.
About the Tony Kent Strix Award Sponsor:
SAGE Publications www.sagepub.co.uk is a leading international publisher of
journals, books and electronic media for scholarly, educational and
professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a
global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students.
SAGE Publications, a privately owned corporation, has principal offices in
London, United Kingdom; Thousand Oaks, California; and New Delhi, India.
Previous award winners have included:
· 2005 – Jack Mills
· 2004 - Professor Cornelis Joost (Keith) van Rijsbergen
· 2003 - Dr Herbert van Sompel
· 2002 - Malcolm Jones
· 2001 - Professor Peter Willett
· 2000 - Dr Martin Porter
· 1999 - Dr Donna Harman
· 1998 - Professor Stephen Robertson
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