Over on the TDN, we have just announced the Mashing up the Library competition, and I’d like to invite everyone reading this blog to take a look, and to think about what sort of entry they might contribute.

We’ve got a great team of judges working together on this, and not insignificant prizes for the winning entries, and I genuinely hope that the two will create a useful focus to stimulate the showcasing of some of the innovation that we all know is out there.

Entries are welcome from around the world, and from both inside and outside of libraries. You needn’t use the initial Talis Platform APIs we announced last week, but they are certainly the sort of resource from which some interesting entries could be built.

All the details are available over on the TDN site, here, and the closing date for entries is Friday 18th August 2006.

We’re encouraging those thinking about and submitting entries to tag both the entries themselves and any preliminary conversations about them with the mutl06 tag, so that everyone can follow along. I’d ask that bloggers consider doing the same, as a large part of the reason for this competition is to create a focus for some of the rather scattered building and discussing that is already underway in various places around the world.

The other judges and I look forward to reviewing a set of high quality entries, and to the discussing and mashing that takes place between now and the closing date.

A number of forums have also been set up, to log entries as they come in, and to offer alternative avenues for discussion during the competition.

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