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RSS feedsThe third annual International Information Industry Awards, which took place last Wednesday at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, have been widely judged the most successful yet.
Hosted by Online Information 2005 and Information World Review, the awards offer the chance for the global industry to recognise the achievements of information teams, information and content management projects, vendors and individual information professionals.
The evening was compered by Sir Trevor MacDonald OBE, and almost 400 guests were in attendance to salute excellence in the information field.
On a night where a wide range of awards were presented (see winners list below), a sombre note was struck at the beginning. The Annelie Vickers and Jeremy Lakin young achiever award was created by Onesource in memory of its former employees who were killed earlier this year in the terrorist attack on the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh.
The main criteria for the award was to find an individual who is making a significant contribution to improve the quality of information products or improve the way that information is used and applied within an organisation to improve business efficiency. Ben Lund, a member of the New Technology team at Nature Publishing Group, took the award.
The inaugural IWR Award for Technology of the Year went to collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia. Its founder, Jimmy Wales, accepted the award via a pre-recorded video clip, saying the award was particularly meaningful as it came from knowledge management peers.
Online Information Conference chairman Martin White took the Lifetime Achievement award, after a long stint as a well-respected, energetic champion of the conference. White will resign from this position after next year's conference.
The BBC's Euan Semple topped off a year when he continued to drive knowledge innovation at the broadcasting corporation with a well-deserved gong as IWR's I nformation Professional of the Year.
The full winners list for 2005 was:
Project Awards
- Innovation in knowledge management – National Institute of Mental Health in England Knowledge Community
- Innovation in content management, sponsored by Factiva – European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
- Best intranet or extranet project, sponsored by Walters Kluwer – FirstStop 2, NSPCC Intranet
- Best implementation of a business blog, sponsored by VNUnet.com – UK FOIA blog (Steve Wood)
Product / Vendor Awards
- Best user experience – Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edition
- FreePint award for the best customer service team – Bureau van Dijk
- IWR readers award for Technology of the Year, sponsored by the American Psychological Association - Wikipedia
- Best business information product – Global Market Information, Euromonitor
- Best STM information product, sponsored by Swets Information Services - Scopus
- Best specialist search product – ProQuest SmartSearch
Best Information / Knowledge Team Awards
- Best team in an academic environment, sponsored by Ovid – Canterbury Christchurch University, Knowledge is Power project
- Best team in a business environment, sponsored by ISI Emerging Markets – Yell Commercial Data team
- Best team in a the public sector – Royal College of Nursing library and information services team
Individual Awards
- The CILIP Jason Farradane Award (supported by UKeIG and ICLG), sponsored by Kompass – Michael Koenig
- CILIP / Online Information Personal Development Award – Jessica Warner
- The Annalie Vickers and Jeremy Lakin young achiever award, created by Onesource – Ben Lund, Nature Publishing Group
- IWR Information Professional of the Year, sponsored by LexisNexis Butterworths – Euan Semple, BBC
- Lifetime achievement, sponsored by Business Intelligence Services – Martin White
