UKeiG is now seeking nominations for the 2013 UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award

The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is given in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval. This could take the form of an application or service, or an overall appreciation of past achievements from which significant advances have emanated. The Award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world. The deadline for nominations is Friday 30th August 2013.

Nominations should be for achievement that meets one or more of the following criteria:

• a major and/or sustained contribution to the theoretical or experimental understanding of the information retrieval process;
• development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms, a product or service for the retrieval of information, either generally or in a specialised field;
• development of, or significant improvement in, easy access to an information service;
• development and/or exploitation of new technologies to enhance information retrieval;
• 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.

Full details may be found on the UKeiG web pages for the award.

The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information & Computer Applications Group and ASLIB: The Association for Information Management.