Nominations invited for the Tony Kent Strix Award

Colleagues/

Posted on behalf of Dr. Wendy A. Warr

/Gerry 

I was asked to post this call for nominations:
 
Nominations invited for the Tony Kent Strix Award
 
The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is given annually to an
individual or a
team based in any country of the world in recognition of an
outstanding
contribution to the field of information retrieval 
 
Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information
Scientists,
died in 1997. He 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
which he created.
 
Nominations will be judged by a panel of experts, and the
statuette of
an owl will be presented to the winner during the annual
Online
Information Meeting in bond, December 2-4th 2008. The Panel
will
assess the nominations on the basis of one or more of the
following
criteria:
 
*	development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms
for
the retrieval of information, either generally or in a
specialised
field;
*	development of, or significant improvement in,
accessibility to
an information service;
*	a sustained contribution over a period of years to the
field of
information retrieval; for example, by running an
information service or
by contributing at national or international level to
organisations
active in the field;
*	a major and/or sustained contribution to the theoretical
or
experimental understanding of the information retrieval
process;
*	a major contribution to fostering the education, training
and/or
general awareness of the importance and the technicalities
of
information retrieval. 
 
Key characteristics that the judges will look for in
nominations are
innovation and initiative, and in particular the originality
and
practicality of approach that Tony Kent exemplified. 
 
 
Past winners have been:
           2007   Mats Lindqvist
           2006   Stella Dextre Clarke 
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
 
Nominations should take the form of a short description (no
more than 3
sides of A4) of the work in question, together with full
contact details
of both the nominee and the nominator. Do not forget to
include any
documentation, references or URLs which may support the
nomination. 
 
Nominations should be send to 
Alan Gilchrist,
32 Friar Road,
Brighton BN1 6NH
UK.
Tel: 01273 705226
E-mail:  <mailto:curafastnet.co.uk> curafastnet.co.uk 
 
The closing date is Friday September 19th 2008.
(Electronic format is preferable, but not obligatory)
 
The Strix Award is endorsed by the International Society for
Knowledge
Organization (UK Chapter)
 
Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at: 
htt
p://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/tonykentstrix.html 
 
Wendy
 
Dr. Wendy A. Warr
Wendy Warr & Associates
6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel
Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England
Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837
wendywarr.com http://www.warr.com 




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