I'm pleased to announce that the IWMW 2008 will be hosting an Innovation
Competition. The Innovation Competition was a great success when it was
launched at IWMW 2007 last year, providing an opportunity for participants
to demonstrate examples of lightweight innovation (see
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/competition
/). And congratulations to the prize-winners - Sebastian Rahtz, Michael
Nolan, Mike Ellis and Paul Walk.
This year the competition is being sponsored by the Universities of Aberdeen
and Bath and Edge Hill University. These three institutions are providing
access to a variety of resources, APIs and feeds on their institutional Web
site and are inviting developers to demonstrate the 'cool things' that can
be done once you open up your data.
Submissions aren't restricted to data provided by these three institutions,
however. The judges will interpret 'innovation' in a broad sense, so we
encourage a diversity of submissions. We would expect submissions to
demonstrate benefits not just to an individual institution, but to the wider
community (which might include other HE/FE institutions or the wider
community). However we would also be interested in submissions which
demonstrate how institutions are addressing some of the key topics which
will be addressed at IWMW 2008 (Web site preservation, for example).
Further details are given at:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/competition
/
and in a blog post at:
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/innovation-competition-at-iwmw-20
08/
I'm looking forward to receiving your submissions.
Brian
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Brian Kelly
UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
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Phone: +44 1225 383943
Web site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
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