[Rdap] Build Library Apps for Science and win $15, 000 / $10, 000 / $5, 000 (fwd)

[Joe Hourcle]

With the libraries + science crossover from this group, I thought this 
might be on topic.  (for those not familiar with 'code4lib', it's mostly 
systems librarians and programmers who work in libraries)

-Joe


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Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 06:33:25 -0400
From: "Caprio, Remko (ELS-NYC)" <R.Caprio at ELSEVIER.COM>
Reply-To: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
To: CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Build Library Apps for Science and win $15,000 / $10,
     000 / $5,000

I want to invite librarians and library information system professionals 
to participate in a software competition for SciVerse applications. You 
can build applications to enhance and customize the end-user's search 
needs, improving their research through a library Sciverse application.

SciVerse is an OpenSocial (also used by OCLC's Cooperative Platform and 
iGoogle for instance, and with 900 million end-users worldwide) based 
network and apps platform for Elsevier products: Hub, ScienceDirect, 
Scopus, SciTopics and Applications. With SciVerse you can create your own 
library application and embed it directly within SciVerse content, while 
connecting with third party open APIs and open data, and thus improving 
the experience of SciVerse for your particular library.

For more information about the challenge go to http://appsforscience.com

For more information about SciVerse go to http://developer.sciverse.com

Examples of SciVerse applications are:

- Illinois Catalog Viewer, which allows users to browse related
   search results in the Illinois Library catalog. (a white-labeled open
   source version for VuFind catalogs, developed in collaboration with the
   University of Illinois and VuFind will be available soon).

- CiteSeer, which shows related search results in CiteSeerX in
   the context of SciVerse searches (developed by Mark Harmer, winner of
   Elsevier Challenge at Code4Lib, available soon)

About Apps for Science

Deadline: July 31, 2011


Elsevier is offering $35,000 in prizes and challenging software developers 
to help researchers, librarians and students navigate the scientific 
content, improve search and discovery, visualize sophisticated data in 
more insightful and attractive ways and stimulate collaboration.

Elsevier has opened the scientific content and provided APIs for 
developers to create apps that improve researcher and librarian 
productivity and workflow.

Developers are encouraged to collaborate and develop the best apps to 
enhance and customize your end user's experience of SciVerse. Developers 
retain full IP rights to their submissions and can host their apps on 
Elsevier's SciVerse Application Marketplace where you can market their 
apps and gain revenue from 15 million users in over 10,000 institutions. 
Apps For Science is open to individual residents and organizations 
domiciled in seven countries: Australia, India, Japan, Germany, 
Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States .


   <http://appsforscience.com/>



Remko Caprio
Developer Network | Elsevier
Developer Platform Evangelist

Elsevier
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010 USA
Tel +1 (212) 633 3785
Mobile +1 (718) 679 8532
Skype: remkocaprio
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r.caprio at elsevier.com
http://developer.sciverse.com/blog <http://developers.sciverse.com/blog>


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