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, since 2017 branded CILIP: The library and information association (pronounced ), is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the ...

. 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 London Metropolitan University, commonly known as London Met, is a public research university in London, England. The University of North London (formerly the Polytechnic of North London) and London Guildhall University (formerly the City ...

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 Library for The Learning Grid * 2007: Caroline Williams and the

Intute Intute was a free Web service aimed at students, teachers, and researchers in UK further education and higher education. Intute provided access to online resources, via a large database of resources. Each resource was reviewed by an academic spec ...

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 Blaise Cronin (born 1949) is an Irish-American information scientist and bibliometrician. He is the Rudy Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was Dean of the School of Library and Information Scie ...

and Lucy Todd * 2015: Sheila Webber * 2016: Hazel Hall * 2017: Christopher Gutteridge of the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

* 2018/2019: Not awarded * 2020: Tom D. Wilson

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, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, 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 Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of informatio ...

in 1963 at what eventually became

City University, London City, University of London, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City Univ ...

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 name he created for himself - a combination of

Faraday Michael Faraday (; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, ...

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 intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

, and the concept of information.

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UKeiG Awards and Bursaries
British awards