A JISC project called MOSAIC has set a competition for developers to develop a web app using library activity data. Full details are below:
The JISC MOSAIC project has gathered together data covering user activity in UK Higher Education libraries. The data, which is freely available for you to reuse, represents circulation records linked to the course affiliations of the borrowers.
The project is holding an open competition to discover what you can do with that data. This is your chance to impress the world with your ideas as well as your coding and to win one of three prizes of £1000, £250 and £100 …
- If you have a yearning to see library information put to best use and displayed to best effect
- If you like developing compelling applications and interfaces regardless of the domain
- If you’re into mash ups – but note that this competition is about any application, not restricted to mash ups
To enter, simply produce a browser based application that makes use of some or all of the MOSAIC library activity data by the closing date – Monday 31 August 2009.
Full details, open access to the data and competition rules
More about the JISC MOSAIC (Making Our Shared Activity Information Count) project
