First Mashing up the Library competition closed - now to do it again!

The first Mashing up the Library Competition ran over the summer of 2006, and has now closed.

$2,000 were awarded to John F. Blyberg of Ann Arbor District Library for his entry, Go-Go-Google-Gadget. $1,000 were awarded to the Alliance Library System and their global partners in the Second Life Library 2.0 for their Second Life Library 2.0 entry.

With the selection of these winners, the first phase of the competition is now closed.

However, Talis is committed to continuing to support innovative means of making information from, by and about libraries available to as wide an audience as possible. We are therefore, today, reopening the competition for the ongoing submission of entries.

We will periodically close submissions in order to assess and reward the best entries in a manner very similar to that used in the first competition. As well as stepping back to judge all submissions from a given period, we shall be seeking to reward particularly innovative or compelling ideas whenever we receive them, so watch out for smaller or different prizes being awarded to entries in between the more formal bouts of judging. Winning one of these interim prizes has no effect upon the normal judging process.

So get your thinking caps back on, pull that mashup manual off the shelf, and get back to coding. As with last time, if you have a great idea and feel you lack the technical skills, why not float your idea in the Ideas Forum and maybe find a partner to help?