Tony Hey Receives Paul Evan Peters Award — Association of Research Libraries

"The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that physicist and computer scientist Tony Hey has been named the 2024 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award. The award recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of network-based information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity....

After serving as head of department and dean of engineering at Southampton and establishing one of the first open access digital research repositories, he was appointed director of the UK e-Science Initiative, where he recognized the significance of big data in science. With support from Jisc, Hey was able to fund what was likely the world’s first Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in Edinburgh in 2004. The DCC established the first International Digital Curation Conference and introduced the first attempt at a data management plan (DMP) for scientists...."