All I am pleased to announce news of a competition intended to encourage innovation in the display, use, and reuse of data from and about libraries. The competition is open to all, and includes a first prize of £1,000 for the best entry. From Jon Udell's early work with LibraryLookup to the current spate of Greasemonkey plug-ins and the structured exposure of web services by Talis, Amazon, Google and others, there are significant advances being made in the ways in which libraries offer their services to the outside world. At least as important is the revolution occurring outside the library, as those beyond the walls take and manipulate library data on their own. This competition is intended to celebrate and showcase all that is best in these efforts to push library information out to existing audiences in new ways, or to reach totally new audiences with compelling and captivating applications. The competition is open to anyone, anywhere. Entrants do not need to work in a library, and entries do NOT need to make use any Talis product or service. Entrants simply need to have an idea for a way to make better use of existing information from or about libraries, and an ability to turn that idea into a 'mash up' or other application that shows it off to good effect. The competition closes on 18 August 2006, and I invite you to visit the web site at www.talis.com/tdn/competition for more details. If you have any queries or suggestions, please do not hesitate to get in touch. -- Dr Paul Miller Senior Manager & Technology Evangelist, Talis e: [log in to unmask] w: http://www.talis.com/ m: +44 (7769) 740083 t: +44 (870) 400 5000 im: [log in to unmask] [AIM and iChat] [log in to unmask] [MSN and GTalk] Read about library innovation at http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/ Read about the wider Web 2.0 world at http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/ Listen to thought leadership at http://talk.talis.com/ Participate in building the community at http://tdn.talis.com/ -- Talis announces dates for regional roadshows Building on the success of our Talis days in 2005, we are delighted to announce that we will again be hosting a series of regional roadshows, comprising both customer and introductory days. Registration is free, book online at: http://www.talis.com/news/events/events.shtml Any views or personal opinions expressed within this email may not be those of Talis Information Ltd. The content of this email message and any files that may be attached are confidential, and for the usage of the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, then please return this message to the sender and delete it. Any use of this e-mail by an unauthorised recipient is prohibited.