Thursday September 28, 2006

Talis and OCLC contest winners

Two competitions designed to encourage innovative use of library data have recently announced winners.  

The Talis "Mashing up the Library" Competition first prize went to a Google gadget suite for integrating library content in the Google personalized homepage.  You can see a full list of winners and entries on the Talis website.

The OCLC Software Research Contest prize went to an OpenURL link resolver tool called The Umlaut.

Unfortunately, the OCLC contest entry submitted by Emily Lynema and myself did not win, but you can learn more about it here:  Catalog Availability Service.

Library competitions are fun and encourage new thinking around library services.  I hope to see more competition opportunities in the future.