Talis Library Mashup Contest

For all those users of libraries who have ever wished they could bring information from their library to life outside the virtual walls of its web site. For all those librarians who have contemplated enriching their OPAC with maps, reviews, jacket images, or folksonomies. For all of you, and for anyone else who has harboured a yearning to see information from or about libraries put to best use and displayed to best effect alongside information or services from other sources, we bring you the Mashing Up The Library competition.

This is your chance to wow the world with your ideas; your chance to build better systems on top of library data; your chance to demonstrate the value and the power of libraries; your chance to take library information and display it in exciting new ways; and your chance to walk away with £1,000.

Entries are due by Friday 18 August [2006], and we have a first prize of £1,000 and a second prize of £500, both provided by Talis to encourage innovative approaches to library information such as those made possible by APIs from the Talis Platform.

via panlibus

If I'm reading the rules correctly, it looks like any organization can participate.

So... Lorcan, what about the OCLC Contest?
Last year's contest page says

Plans call for the OCLC Research Software Contest to become an annual event. Look for announcements of next year's [i.e. 2006] contest sometime around December 2005–January 2006

UPDATE 2006-07-09: Second OCLC Research Software Contest announced.

Comments

[Paul Miller]

You are reading the rules correctly. It's open to anyone, anywhere, using any technology. We simply want to encourage the showcasing of the very best ideas around taking information from or about libraries, and displaying it in ways that will appeal to new or existing audiences.