The Jason Farradane Award is made each year by the UK eInformation Group (UKeiG), a specialist group within the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced ) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge management, knowledge managers in the United Kingdom.
It was established in 20 ...
. The award is given to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding contribution to the information profession, by meeting one or more of the following criteria:
* raising the profile of the information profession within an organisation or field of endeavour in a way which has become an exemplar to others;
* raising the awareness of the value of information in the workplace;
* demonstrating excellence in education and teaching in information science;
* a major contribution to the theory and practice of information science or information management.
It is an international award open to all.
Recent winners include:
* 2001: Professor Bruce Royan for
SCRAN
* 2002: William Hann for FreePint
* 2003:
London Metropolitan University and the
TUC for the web site "The Union Makes us Strong: TUC History Online"
* 2004: Julia Chandler, for establishing the UK public sector Intranet managers network
* 2005: Michael Koenig, Dean of the College of Information and Computer Science at
Long Island University
* 2006:
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...
Library for The Learning Grid
* 2007: Caroline Williams and the
Intute community network
* 2008–2009: Not awarded
* 2010: Dr. Shawky Salem
* 2011: UK Council for Research Repositories (UKCoRR)
* 2012: The Chemoinformatics Research Group
* 2013: Prof Charles Oppenheim
* 2014: Prof
Blaise Cronin and Lucy Tedd
* 2015: Sheila Webber
* 2016:
Hazel Hall
* 2017:
Christopher Gutteridge of the
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...
* 2018–2019: Not awarded
* 2020:
Thomas D. Wilson
* 2021–2022: Not awarded
* 2023: Martin White
* 2024: Karen Blakeman
About Jason Farradane
Jason Farradane graduated in chemistry in 1929 at what is now
Imperial College and started work in industry as a chemist and documentalist. After working in research at the
Ministry of Supply and the
Admiralty during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, he first made an impact with a paper on the scientific approach to documentation at a
Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
Scientific Information Conference in 1948.
He was instrumental in establishing the
Institute of Information Scientists in 1958 and the first academic courses in
information science in 1963 at what eventually became
City University, London and where he became Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966. Of Central European origin, his commitment to science was reflected in the surname he created for himself – a
combination of
Faraday
Michael Faraday (; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic inducti ...
and
Haldane, two scientists he particularly admired. On the research side his main contributions lay in relational analysis, a precursor to work in the area of
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
, and the concept of information.
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UKeiG Awards and Bursaries
British academic awards