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Posted By John A. Wickenden,
23 August 2024
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UKeiG announces the 2024 call for nominations for 3 prestigious international awards
The UK e-information Group (UKeiG) is delighted to launch a call for nominations for three international awards in the fields of information retrieval, library and information services and open science.
All three awards are open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.
Nominations for all three 2024 awards must reach UKeiG by 6 pm GMT on Friday 27th September 2024.
The Tony Strix Award
The Tony Kent Strix Award was inaugurated in 1998 by the Institute of Information Scientists . It is presented by 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) and awarded in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval and search. Nominations must be for a major, sustained or influential achievement that meets one or more of the criteria listed below.
Science
The advancement of our understanding of information retrieval methods, experimentation and evaluation, at either the theoretical or the practical level. The scope includes approaches as diverse as linguistic, probabilistic, fact-checking or artificial intelligence applied to search.
Service Delivery
The development and management of systems, networks or services:
- Enhancement of the mechanisms/technology/standards underpinning information products or services
- Establishing an innovative information resource or service
- Innovations leading to improved accessibility/usability of information resources.
Education and organisational infrastructure
The provision of leadership in education, training, community development and/or collaboration to advance information retrieval at local, national or international level.
The Jason Farradane Award
The Jason Farradane Award is presented in recognition of an outstanding, creative and enterprising contribution to the wider library and information profession. It will be awarded to an individual or a team in recognition of exemplary and innovative practice. This may take the form of a specific project, a piece of research or the development of a service or resource.
The Award celebrates creativity and enterprise across the library and information profession in its broadest sense and honours Jason Farradane, who first made an impact on the LIS community with a paper on the ‘scientific approach to documentation’ presented at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in 1948. He was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958, alongside the first academic information science courses in 1963 at the precursor to City University, London, where he became Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966.
Nominations should meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Contributing to the creation, promotion and exploitation of digital resources and services
- Raising the profile of library and information services across the organisation
- Raising awareness of the value and impact of library and information services internally and/or externally
- Evidencing a significant contribution to organisational goals and strategies through internal and/or external collaborative partnerships and cross team working
- Demonstrating excellence in library and information science education and teaching
- Making a significant contribution to the theory and practice of library and information science.
The UKeiG Open Science Award
UKeiG’s inaugural open science award will be presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution in terms of digital/electronic information to one or more of the following areas of Open Science: Open Access, Open Data, Open Peer Review, Open Science Tools.
It will be awarded to an individual or a team in recognition of exemplary and innovative practice. This may, for example, take the form of a specific project, the development of a service, resource or research activity.
Nominations should meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Contributing to the creation, promotion and exploitation of Open Science resources, services and tools
- Raising awareness of the value and impact of Open Science internally and/or externally
- Evidencing a significant contribution to Open Science through internal and/or external collaborative partnerships
- Demonstrating excellence in support for and the implementation of Open Science
- Making a significant contribution to the theory and practice of Open Science.
Submission guidelines
In all cases nominations should take the form of a succinct justification (maximum 2 pages) for the individual or team nomination showing clearly which of the award criteria the nominee meets and how they are met. Please include full contact details, job title and qualifications of both the nominee and the nominator emailed to Richard Bridgen – Hon. Secretary UKeiG secretary.ukeig@cilip.org.uk and copied to: Gary Horrocks - info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk and Elizabeth Roberts – Hon. Treasurer UKeiG treasurer.ukeig@cilip.org.uk.
Please clarify in the email subject heading - ‘UKeiG 2024 award nomination’ - followed by the award name.
Self-nominations will not be accepted.
If you want your nomination to be considered in two or all three of the specified award areas, please clarify that in your justification.
Please include testimonials, letters of support, references, a selective bibliography relevant to the nomination, or links to supplementary information including professional profiles or social media, for example.
Please email info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk for more information and guidance.
Deadline
Nominations for all three 2024 awards must reach the UKeiG by 6 pm GMT on Friday 27th September 2024.
Further information
Further information about UKeiG awards and bursaries is available here , and includes previous winners.
Please share the news
The library and information science community is encouraged to raise awareness of these awards with individuals and groups in their networks and help encourage nomination submissions.
All winners will be invited to present at an awards ceremony in late November 2024 and featured in UKeiG’s open access e-journal eLucidate.
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Posted By Richard G. Bridgen,
30 November 2023
Updated: 22 January 2024
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The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG), is pleased to announce that the winner of the prestigious international Jason Farradane and Tony Kent Strix Memorial Awards for 2023 is Martin White FBCS FRSC, HonFCLIP, Principal Analyst at SearchReseach Online.
The Jason Farradane Award is presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the library and information science profession.
The Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of search and information retrieval.
Martin celebrated both of his awards in a special Zoom lecture on the afternoon of Tuesday 5th December 2023. We hope to release a video of the event shortly.
Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and an Honorary Fellow of CILIP – the library and information association. He recently retired from his prominent information consultancy role.
Starting out as an Information Officer in the metallurgical industry in 1970 his subsequent career has involved electronic publishing, high-technology market research and information and knowledge management consulting before setting up Intranet Focus Ltd. in 1999. He is a pioneer of the business-critical importance of effective enterprise solutions for information and knowledge search and discoverability.
The judging panels for both awards would like to congratulate Martin on his prolific and significant leadership and contribution to the profession on multiple fronts.
- International information management, intranet and enterprise search consultant for over fifty organisations with complex corporate challenges, including the International Money Fund, World Bank, NATO, United Nations, European Commission and a number of major pharmaceutical companies
- Presentations and workshops at conferences in fifteen countries
- Author of ten books on intranets, enterprise search and information management
- A Visiting Professor at the iSchool, University of Sheffield since 2002 and close links with City, University of London since 1977
- Dedication to the development and growth of the UK’s information profession through his energetic contribution to the Institute of Information Scientists – a predecessor to CILIP.
Martin was shocked but delighted to receive the news:
‘After a career of over fifty years in information science, receiving two awards reflecting the work of Tony Kent and Jason Farradane in the same year is a great honour. Kent and Farradane both played a crucial role in the development of my career. I am immensely proud.’
Udo Kruschwitz, Professor of Information Science, University of Regensburg writes:
'Martin has demonstrated major, sustained and influential achievements in the information retrieval and information science community, bridging the gap between industry and academia with a continuous, longstanding effort in forming and shaping a community of practitioners and academics in the field of search.'
Dr Sandra Ward BSc PhD Cert Ed Hon FCLIP concurs:
'Martin has dedicated his career to information science, information management and promoting the necessity for organisations to use these skills to deliver organisational benefits through well-constructed Intranets and Internets completely aligned with business objectives. He is the only person I know to use Information Scientist as the profession on his passport.'
Professor Charles Oppenheim BSc, PhD, PG Diploma in Information Science, Cert. Ed., DSc, Hon FCLIP, AUMIST, FRPSL applauds the news:
'Martin has an international reputation. He has authored many notable books on information consultancy and related topics and is co-author of a highly regarded history of the Institute of Information Scientists. As a result of his numerous professional activities, talks, conference presentations and writings he has become one of the best known and most relied upon senior members of the library and information science profession.'
The UKeiG awards judging panels would like to thank colleagues who submitted nominations, and we look forward to your submissions later in 2024. The excellence and quality of the entries is proof positive that the information retrieval community is thriving.
The Tony Kent Strix Award was inaugurated in 1998 by the Institute of Information Scientists. It is now presented by 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).
The Jason Farradane Award is presented in recognition of an outstanding, creative and enterprising contribution to the wider library and information profession. It honours Jason Farradane, who first made an impact on the LIS community with a paper on the ‘scientific approach to documentation’ presented at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in 1948. He was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958, alongside the first academic information science courses in 1963 at the precursor to City University, London, where he became Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966.
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Posted By John A. Wickenden,
07 August 2023
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UKeiG is delighted to launch a call for nominations for three international awards in the fields of information retrieval/search, library and information services and open science.
All three awards are open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.
Nominations for all three 2023 awards must reach UKeiG by 6 pm GMT on Friday 29th September 2023.
1 - Information retrieval/search – The Tony Kent Strix Award
The Tony Kent Strix Award was inaugurated in 1998 by the Institute of Information Scientists. It is presented by 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) and awarded in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval and search. Nominations must be for a major, sustained or influential achievement that meets one or more of the criteria listed below.
Science
The advancement of our understanding of information retrieval methods, experimentation and evaluation, at either the theoretical or the practical level. The scope includes approaches as diverse as linguistic, probabilistic, fact-checking or artificial intelligence applied to search.
Service Delivery
The development and management of systems, networks or services:
Ø Enhancement of the mechanisms/technology/standards underpinning information products or services
Ø Establishing an innovative information resource or service.
Ø Innovations leading to improved accessibility/usability of information resources.
Education and organisational infrastructure
The provision of leadership in education, training, community development and/or collaboration to advance information retrieval at local, national or international level.
2 - Library and information services – The Jason Farradane Award
The Jason Farradane Award is presented in recognition of an outstanding, creative and enterprising contribution to the wider library and information profession. It will be awarded to an individual or a team in recognition of exemplary and innovative practice. This may take the form of a specific project, a piece of research or the development of a service or resource.
The Award celebrates creativity and enterprise across the library and information profession in its broadest sense and honours Jason Farradane, who first made an impact on the LIS community with a paper on the ‘scientific approach to documentation’ presented at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in 1948. He was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958, alongside the first academic information science courses in 1963 at the precursor to City University, London, where he became Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966.
Nominations should meet one or more of the following criteria:
Ø Contributing to the creation, promotion and exploitation of digital resources and services
Ø Raising the profile of library and information services across the organisation
Ø Raising awareness of the value and impact of library and information services internally and/or externally
Ø Evidencing a significant contribution to organisational goals and strategies through internal and/or external collaborative partnerships and cross team working
Ø Demonstrating excellence in library and information science education and teaching
Ø Making a significant contribution to the theory and practice of library and information science.
3 – The UKeiG Open Science Award
UKeiG’s inaugural open science award will be presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution in terms of digital/electronic information to one or more of the following areas of Open Science: Open Access, Open Data, Open Peer Review, Open Science Tools.
It will be awarded to an individual or a team in recognition of exemplary and innovative practice. This may, for example, take the form of a specific project, the development of a service, resource or research activity.
Nominations should meet one or more of the following criteria:
Ø Contributing to the creation, promotion and exploitation of Open Science resources, services and tools
Ø Raising awareness of the value and impact of Open Science internally and/or externally
Ø Evidencing a significant contribution to Open Science through internal and/or external collaborative partnerships
Ø Demonstrating excellence in support for and the implementation of Open Science
Ø Making a significant contribution to the theory and practice of Open Science.
Submission guidelines
In all cases nominations should take the form of a succinct justification (maximum 2 pages) for the individual or team nomination showing clearly which of the award criteria the nominee meets and how they are met. Please include full contact details, job title and qualifications of both the nominee and the nominator emailed to
Richard Bridgen – Hon. Secretary UKeiG secretary.ukeig@cilip.org.uk and copied to:
Gary Horrocks - UKeiG administrator info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk and
Sue Silcocks – Hon. Treasurer UKeiG treasurer.ukeig@cilip.org.uk.
Please clarify in the email subject heading - ‘UKeiG 2023 award nomination’ - followed by the award name.
Self-nominations will not be accepted.
If you want your nomination to be considered in two or all three of the specified award areas, please clarify that in your justification.
Please include testimonials, letters of support, references, a selective bibliography relevant to the nomination, or links to supplementary information including professional profiles or social media, for example.
Please email info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk for more information and guidance.
Deadline
Nominations for all three 2023 awards must reach the UKeiG by 6 pm GMT on Friday 29th September 2023.
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Posted By John A. Wickenden,
22 December 2022
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We are pleased to announce that the joint winners of the prestigious international 2022 Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award given in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval are:
- Iadh Ounis, Professor of Information Retrieval, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, and
- Dr. Ryen White, General Manager and Partner Research Director at Microsoft Research
The judging panel congratulates them on their prolific and significant contributions to information retrieval research and development on multiple fronts, most notably the search experience. Their high impact publication records and scholarly contributions are peerless and international support for their nominations was overwhelming across the information retrieval community.
Professor Ounis is noted for his sustained contributions to advances in information retrieval, his inspirational leadership, commitment to PhD education and research and contributions to R&D through open-source software and information retrieval tools. The highly valued Terrier and PyTerrier platforms have been utilised extensively across the information retrieval community and advanced research significantly. He has focused on designing intelligent technology that enables people to access information, developing new models and techniques for search engines. His work is at the intersection of information retrieval, machine learning and big data systems where data driven models are learned from the users' interactions with the system. His work on many information retrieval tasks including expert search models, search results diversification, search ranking, recommendation, fake news detection and query performance prediction has furthered the community’s understanding of some of the most fundamental information retrieval questions.
Dr. White has made important contributions to information retrieval, search interaction models and health informatics, mainly focussed on understanding and enriching user interactions with information retrieval systems. He leads multidisciplinary research teams that have developed new techniques and advanced the state of the art in projects spanning artificial intelligence, human-computer Interaction and systems development. His user- and task-centric collaboration with Microsoft colleagues has pushed the boundaries in web and enterprise search. His research has underpinned the development and enhancement of widely available Microsoft products and services including the Cortana digital assistant, Bing, Xbox, Internet Explorer, Skype, Windows, Office and Azure. He was also the chief scientist at Microsoft Health.
For details go to the Tony Kent Strix Award page.
A Zoom date for your diary
Two online Strix Memorial Lectures will be presented by Professor Ounis and Dr. White on the afternoon of Thursday 23rd February 2023. Book your place here. The event will be free of charge.
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Posted By John A. Wickenden,
02 September 2021
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The UK e-information Group (UKeiG) is delighted to announce the call for nominations for the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award 2021. Nominations should be received by 6 pm GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021.
The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval in its widest sense. This could take the form of an application or service, or an overall appreciation of past achievements that have led to significant advances. The award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.
Nominations must be for a major, sustained or influential achievement that meets one or more of the following criteria:
Science: The advancement of our understanding of information retrieval methods, experimentation and evaluation, at either the theoretical or the practical level. The scope includes approaches as diverse as linguistic, probabilistic, fact-checking or artificial intelligence applied to search.
Service Delivery: The development and management of systems, networks or services:
Enhancement of the mechanisms/technology/standards underpinning information products or services
Establishing an innovative information resource or service
Innovations leading to improved accessibility/usability of information resources.
Education and organisational infrastructure: The provision of leadership in education, training, community development and/or collaboration to advance information retrieval at local, national or international level.
Submissions must include:
- The name, institutional address and qualifications of the nominee
- A brief biography - (maximum one A4 page)
- A selective bibliography - (key publications relevant to the nomination)
- A justification for the nomination - (maximum one A4 page) showing clearly which of the award criteria the nominee meets and how they are met
- Additional material - letters of support, for example. (Letters from previous winners would be especially valuable).
- It is possible that the Award Committee will request additional information from the nominators for those nominees considered suitable candidates for the award.
- An unsuccessful nomination from previous years may be reconsidered provided the nominator updates it, if necessary, to reflect the current extent of the candidate's achievement.
Nominations for the 2021 award must reach the judges by 6 pm GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021.
Please email to:
John Wickenden – Hon. Secretary UKeiG secretary.ukeig@cilip.org.uk
and copy in:
Gary Horrocks - UKeiG administrator info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk
and
Sue Silcocks – Hon. Treasurer UKeiG treasurer.ukeig@cilip.org.uk.
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Posted By John A. Wickenden,
02 October 2019
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UKeiG would like to inform you that the 5th Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial Lecture 2019 is to be delivered by Professor Pia Borlund, Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science at Oslo Metropolitan University and will take place on the afternoon of Friday, 29th November 2019 at The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
This is a free event. Book here.
Professor Borlund was nominated for the award by Diane H. Sonnenwald, Emerita Professor of Library & Information Studies at University College Dublin and received unanimous praise and support from the Strix judging panel. "Similar to the memorable Dr Tony Kent, the work by Borlund is original and innovative, and has had a significant impact on information retrieval (IR) research and applications. Her approaches are analytical and practical, and her devotion and dedication to users and interactive information retrieval (IIR) are outstanding. Within the IR community, Borlund is known for her innovative contributions to IR user studies, evaluations and test design, including strong, novel methodological contributions to IIR evaluation. In particular, she is recognised for the development of her IIR evaluation model which uniquely employs simulated work task situations. Borlund developed the IIR evaluation model as a doctoral student by taking up the challenges of the calls put forward by Professor Stephen Robertson (recipient of the first Tony Kent Strix Award in 1998) and Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, in their iconic 1992 paper on IR systems evaluation."
The Award was presented by Doug Veal (Strix Chair) and David Ball (UKeiG Chair) and accepted by Dr Andrew Macfarlane on Professor Borlund’s behalf on the afternoon of Friday November 23rd, 2018 at the Geological Society, Piccadilly, London. "I’m very pleased and very, very honoured to receive the Tony Kent Strix Award. It’s a privilege to join the past recipients who I have admired and respected since I was a student."
For more information about Professor Borlund please refer to:
https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201314&id=745466
Her 2019 Strix lecture is entitled: "Evaluation of information searching"
Abstract: My Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award 2018 acceptance talk introduces the research area of interactive information retrieval (IIR), which is concerned with how people search for digital information. More specifically, the presentation addresses methodological issues of IIR evaluation in terms of what it entails to study users' use and interaction with IR systems, as well as their satisfaction with retrieved information, by presenting the IIR evaluation model. Central to this model is the employment of simulated work task situations as assigned search tasks, which has become a standard way of testing users’ interaction and satisfaction in IR. Though this approach of assigned search tasks appears simple and easy to employ it is in fact challenging, and wrong use may have implications for evaluation results, therefore strengths and weaknesses will be discussed.
Full programme details:
• 1.30 Registration
• 2.00 Douglas Veal - Chairman's welcome
• 2.10 Introductory presentation – Dr Andrew Macfarlane
Sender vs Recipient Orientated Information Systems Revisited
Abstract: Belkin and Robertson in 1976 reflected on the ethical implications of theoretical research in information science and warned that there was potential for abuse of knowledge gained by undertaking such research. In particular, they identified the domains of advertising and politics that posed particular problems. Recent events in global information systems have demonstrated that their fears were justified. Information science theories have been used in conjunction with empirical evidence gathered from user interactions that have been detrimental to both individuals and society. It is argued in the paper that the IR community should find ways to return control to the user where at all possible, and ways to achieve this are considered. Specifically, we argue that information systems such as search technologies should be designed with the recipient of information in mind, not the sender of that information.
• 2.45 Questions & Discussion
• 3.00 Tea & coffee
• 3.45 The Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial Lecture
• 4.30 Questions & discussion
• 5.00 Meeting closes
*** This is a FREE event, open to everyone, BUT advance bookings ARE required ***
Please book your ticket online here.
The Tony Kent Strix Award was inaugurated in 1998 by the Institute of Information Scientists. It is now presented by 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).
The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval.
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Posted By John A. Wickenden,
09 September 2019
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eLucidate 16 (1) 2019 is now available.
The UK einformation Group is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 16 issue 1 2019 of our journal eLucidate.
eLucidate is published three times per volume: around spring, summer and winter.
eLucidate features contributions from experts in the field, keeping members up to date with developments and innovations in the digital information industry, considering the impact on information professionals and consumers of e-information.
This issue contains a detailed report of UKeiG's Annual Members' Day on Artificial Intelligence. Martin White looks at whether Microsoft is inhibiting enterprise-wide IM. Stella Dextre Clarke has written a history of the Tony Kent Strix Memorial Lecture, and reflections of the recent CILIP Conference in Manchester.
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