From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jason Farradane
Jason Farradane
Jason Farradane (born 29 September, 1906, died 27 June, Library and Information Science, The University
1989)[1] graduated in chemistry in 1929 at what is now of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.)
Imperial College and started work in industry as a • 1979: "The Nature of Information," in: G. Walker, ed.,
chemist and documentalist. After working in research at The Information Environment: a reader. pp. 4-11. G. K.
the Ministry of Supply and the Admiralty during World Hall & Co.
War II, he first made an impact with a paper on the scien- • "’information’ should be defined as any physical
tific approach to documentation at a Royal Society Scien- form of representation, or surrogate, of
tific Information Conference in 1948. knowledge, or of a particular thought, used for
He was instrumental in establishing the Institute of communication." (p. 4)
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
See also
Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966. Of • Classification Research Group
Central European origin, his commitment to science was • Jason Farradane Award
reflected in the name he created for himself - a combina- • Institute of Information Scientists
tion of Faraday and Haldane, two scientists he particular- • Information science
ly admired. On the research side his main contributions • Artificial intelligence
lay in relational analysis, a precursor to work in the area • City University, London
of artificial intelligence, and the concept of information. • Stephen E. Robertson
• Nicholas J. Belkin
Awards
• Jason Farradane Award that the Institute of
References
Information Scientists presented first to him in 1979. [1] Yates-Mercer, Penelope A. (1989). "Guest Editorial:
An appreciation of Jason Farradane". Journal of
Information Science 15 (6): 305–306. doi:10.1177/
Publications (selected) 016555158901500601. http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/
• 1966: Information Retrieval by Relational Indexing: a pdf_extract/15/6/305.
report on research being carried out at Northampton
College of Advanced Technology. Part I: Methodology.
London: The City University, Department of
Further reading
Management Studies, Information Science (with Mrs • Bottle, R. T., Brookes, B. C. & Yates-Mercer, P. A.
S. Datta, R. K. Poulton) (1986). "Jason Farradane: a biobibliography," in:
• 1973: "Problems in Information Retrieval: Logical Journal of Information Science, Vol. 12, No. 1-2 (January
Jumps in the Expression of Information." Information 1986) Special issue: Twenty-five years of teaching
Storage and Retrieval, 9(2) 65-77 (with J. M. Russell, information science at the City University, pp. 19-21.
and Penelope A. Yates-Mercer) • Brookes, B. C. (1986). "Jason Farradane and
• 1977: Relational indexing. London, Ontario: University Relational Indexing," ibid, pp. 15-18.
of Western Ontario School of Library and • Sweeney, Russell & Brimelow, Tom, interviewers
Information Science (1976) Jason Farradane. Leeds: Department of
• 1978: "Estimation and Reliability of Retrieval Librarianship, Leeds Polytechnic. (Videotape, VHS, of
Effectiveness Measures," Information Processing & interview in 1975; audio tape of same interview)
Management, 14(1) 1-16 (with Jean Tague)
• Abstract: A probabilistic model of the retrieval
process is presented. From it, the standard errors
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of system recall and precision estimators, based • UKeiG (UK eInformation Group)
on a sample of queries, are derived. The resulting • Pioneers in Information Management Scoop Top
negative binomial model is fitted to empirical Awards
data from several retrieval tests. (School of Persondata
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Date of birth 1906
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