[Asis-l] Nominations invited for the Tony Kent Strix Award

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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 London, 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:cura at fastnet.co.uk> cura at fastnet.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: 
http://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
wendy at warr.com http://www.warr.com