Competition entries

Frankie Dolan and David Rothman would like to enter LibWorm.com into the MUTL07 competition.

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Thanks very much!

Best,

-David Rothman
http://www.libworm.com

First of all, I'm not sure what the deadline is for the Mashing Up The Library competition. I could'nt find a deadline anywhere on talis.com, so I guess I'll be allright for 2007.

I would like to submit the library portal at fontysmediatheek.nl that I made for Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. The library portal is a combination of a weblog, wiki and iPort (the last one holds our databases and provides federated search).

On the weblog, which has al lot of the web 2.0 whistles (tags, RSS, tagcloud, ...) we have over 50 informationspecialists submitting library and educational news on a daily basis. The weblog also pulls information from the library wiki, so readers of a certain topic get to see which library databases could be relevant for them to use. In the wiki, which was basically build to hold all library-background information, a lot of good stuff is happening. Our librarians use it in many different ways; showing off their collection of periodicals, they build special interest pages, new arrivals, newsletters, information literacy workshops and more. We even hooked up our contactpages with the Google Maps API (which makes those pages a lot less boring to look at).

Very important to us is what we call 'multiple ways of access':

Why not try again? We got so much good use of the funding we got from the first contest, it does not hurt to try again. :)Alliance Library System, one of nine multitype library systems in Illinois, located in East Peoria, Illinoiis would like to submit the Alliance Second Life Library's new in-world Second Life search tool for the Talis MashUp Competition. You can read more about our project at http://www.infoisland.org.

Damek Tretiak in Second Life, Patrick Ward in Real Life, has created a special search HUD(heads-up display) which can also reside on the user's screen for Second Life Library. At this time, although Second Life has promised web integration, the searching from Second Life is still quite clunky. This search HUD makes it much easier to search Second Life and also library tools which other search HUDS do not have. We have a kiosk right outside the library users can click on to get their free search HUD for use in Second Life.

A tongue in cheek competition entry, this one, running with the idea of 1) extnding a previous entry, and 2) drawing on the inspiration of another.

The Compleat Grazr/OPML Library Interface on Google (+ feeds on netvibes)
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/007391.html

tony

PS what I'd really like is a forum for people to post how they have taken competition entries and adopted/developed/used/mashed/remashed/extended/taken inspiration from them...

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.

Thanks to Paul and Brian for sorting out a login problem, this is a submission from myself and Ross Singer. It is described here:

http://librarycog.uwindsor.ca/indexcat

Art Rhyno
Systems, University of Windsor

Entry received and acknowledged by email within deadline.

Hello,

I have a last minute entry from the MUTL06 competition. You can see my
blog post at:

http://paranoidagnostic.net/2006/08/18/library-map-mashup

and see the demonstration at:

http://paranoidagnostic.net/map/

This entry is on behalf of "The Bruncherati", members of a library
interest group in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

--
Michael McDonnell
michael@winterstorm.ca

Entry posted by Richard Wallis on Michael's behalf - Entry received within deadline by email.

Hello,

I just wanted to scrape in here before the deadline with my entry. It
can be found at:

http://www.blyberg.net/2006/08/18/go-go-google-gadget/

Thanks!

John F. Blyberg [blybergj@aadl.org]

Posted on John's behalf by Richard Wallis - entry received within deadline via email.

I'd like to submit the package of enhancements we've made to our NJIT catalog for the Mashing Up The Library 2006 competition. We have added book covers, PURLS (persistent links), ability for our users to tag book records to their del.icio.us accounts, exposed usage statistics, and Amazon book reviews to our catalog.

Please see the presentation I did at the 2006 Endeavor Annual User Conference at http://www.library.njit.edu/staff-folders/robertson/presentations/2006-04-21-emulating-amazon-robertson-session-37.ppt.

Please consider this an entry in the Mashing Up The Library 2006 competition. I have created a small app called Book Trackr. It provides feeds allowing a user to track the activity of a book in our library. (http://www.library.njit.edu/apps/voyagerdb/booktrackr/about.html)

Traditionally, a user would create a hold or recall event and receive an email notification upon availability. This model is limited by medium (email), by the triggering event (the discharge of a book), and by the goal (borrowing a book). There are many other ways in which a user would like to have a digital "interaction" with a book.