Scran Wins Jason Farradane Award
Scran has received the prestigious Jason Farradane Award of the Institute of Information Scientists as "an outstanding piece of work in the Information Field".
Previous winners of this International award include:
- The Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib)
- The European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
- MAILBASE, JISC's email discussion list service
The award is named in honour of Dr Jason Farradane, one of the pioneer researchers in the organisation and retrieval of information in the 1950s, who is generally credited with coining the term Information Science. Today's internet search engines all rely on some of the simpler concepts and techniques that were developed at that time, and it is believed by some that Farradane's work on "facet analysis", for years considered too complicated for practical application, is at the heart of modern, propriety, commercial products like "Autonomy" and Microsoft's "Tahoe".
Scran is proud to receive this further recognition, which sits alongside its Siver Muse Award.