Who can enter?
To be eligible for prizes entrants must be:
- Individuals who are Australian or New Zealand citizens or residents
- Teams of individuals where at least one member of the team is an Australian or New Zealand citizen or resident
- Organisations with a current Australian Business Number or which are a registered company in New Zealand
To be eligible for the youth prize entrants must be:
- Individuals who are Australian or New Zealand citizens or residents
- Teams of individuals where at least one member of the team is an Australian or New Zealand citizen or resident
- Under the age of 18 at 31 May 2011
To be eligible for the Queensland prize entrants must:
- Use data or digital content made available by the State Library of Queensland. The sponsorship for this prize has been provided by OPAL (Online Public Access for Libraries) – a Queensland public library initiative.
To be eligible for the staff award entrants must be:
- employed by a NSLA or LINC Tasmania Library at 29 May 2011. The sponsorship for the staff award has been provided by Ex Libris.
Competition judges and their immediate families and members of the NSLA Libraryhack project group are not eligible for prizes.
Winners
The winners will be notified by phone and email on 17 June 2011
Winners will be announced publicly on the Libraryhack website on 24 June 2011
The Rules
- Entries will be accepted from 9 am AEST on 1 May 2011 to 5 pm AEST on May 31 2011.
- Entries must be submitted by completing the online entry form. This form will be available on the Libraryhack website when entries open on 1 May.
- Entries will be published on the Libraryhack website as they are received throughout the competition period.
- There is no limit to the number of entries you can submit.
- Entrants may only use code, data or other materials as part of their entries that they have the right to use and release.
- Entrants may use any publicly available web services as long as it does not incur a financial cost to use. (private and subscription APIs are not allowed)
- Entrants are encouraged to share their applications or mashups using a flexible and permissive licence such as Creative Commons, Free Documentation License, MIT license or BSD license
- Entrants must not include submissions that:
- are potentially libellous, false, defamatory or overtly political statements
- include material which is potentially confidential, commercially sensitive, or which may cause personal distress or loss
- includes any commercial endorsement, promotion of any product, service or publication
- may invade privacy
- contain language which is obscene or otherwise inappropriate; or
- are misleading, deceptive, violates a third party’s rights or are otherwise contrary to law
- Please do not assume that because data or digital content is available online that you can use it in the competition. Data must be able to be used and republished to be eligible. For example, government data that is licensed for personal or non-commercial use or in unaltered form is not suitable for use in the Libraryhack competition.
- Entrants grant the organisers of the Libraryhack competition [National and State Libraries Australasia] a royalty-free non-exclusive copyright licence to use entries for marketing and promotional purposes.
- NSLA libraries may contact entrants to add their entries to their library collections.
- NSLA libraries may also contact entrants to discuss collaboration opportunities to further develop apps or mashups submitted as part of the competition.
- Entries that do not comply with the competition rules will not be considered.
Data mashups and apps
- Entrants in the applications/data mashup category must provide a link to a working copy of their application/data mashup on a publicly available website along with any additional technical or user documentation relevant to the entry.
- All entries in the applications/data mashups category must use at least 1 data set from one of the participating libraries. The data sets are available on http://data.australia.gov.au, http://www.data.govt.nz/ and http://digitalnz.org This data can be combined with any other publicly available datasets as long as their licensing terms are consistent with the rules of the Libraryhack competition.
Photo mashups
- Entries in the photo mashup category must be added to the Libraryhack Flickr group. http://www.flickr.com/groups/1565188@N22/ [You’ll need to be a Flickr member to do this. Join up at http://www.flickr.com/ ]
- All entries in the photo mashups category must use at least 1 image from a dataset made available for the competition from the collections of the participating libraries. This image can be combined with any other digital content as long as the licensing terms are consistent with the rules of the Libraryhack competition.
Digital Media Mashup
- Film entries in the digital media mashup category must be added to the Libraryhack Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/1565188@N22/ [You’ll need to be a Flickr member to do this. Join up at http://www.flickr.com/ ]
- Sound recording or soundscape entries must be added to the Libraryhack Soundcloud group. http://soundcloud.com/groups/libraryhack [You’ll need to be a Soundcloud member to do this. Join up at http://soundcloud.com ]
- All entries in the digital media mashups category must use at least 1 piece of content from a dataset made available for the competition from the collections of the participating libraries. This content can be combined with any other digital content as long as the licensing terms are consistent with the rules of the Libraryhack competition.
Judging criteria
Use of the data/digital content: is this a smart and creative use of the source material?
Originality: What is new or improved about this applications/mashup/interpretation?
Quality: Is the application/mashup/interpretation well made and well thought out?
Usefulness: What need does this application/mashup/interpretation serve?
