Celebrate Liberation – A worldwide competition for open software developers & open data
UK Discovery (http://discovery.ac.uk/) and the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) project based at UKOLN are running a global Developer Competition throughout July 2011 to build open source software applications / tools, using at least one of our 10 open data sources collected from libraries, museums and archives.
Enter simply by blogging about your application and emailing the blog post URI to joy.palmer_at_manchester.ac.uk by the deadline of 2359 (your local time) on Monday 1 August 2011.
Full details of the competition, the data sets and how to enter are at
http://discovery.ac.uk/developers/competition/
There are 13 prizes including
Best entry for each dataset – there are 10 datasets so there could be 10 winners of £30 Amazon vouchers and an aggregation could win more than one!
Data Munging – Best example of Consolidating or Aggregating or De-duplicating or Entity matching or … one prize of £100 Amazon voucher.
Overall winners – An EEE Pad Transformer for the overall winner and a £200 Amazon voucher for the Runner Up.
And you can win more than once :)
Specific competition tag on twitter is #discodev, but #devcsi and #ukdiscovery also good to follow/use
Excited to see what people come up with - hope some of you are able to enter
Owen
Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: owen_at_ostephens.com
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Received on Mon Jul 04 2011 - 07:57:32 EDT