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 three awards are:
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.
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.
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
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