[Open-education] Fwd: [LODLAM] Open Humanities Awards: second round open until 30 May 2014

Marieke Guy marieke.guy at okfn.org
Wed Apr 30 12:05:34 UTC 2014


Some of you may be interested in the Open Humanities Awards that 
launched today (see message below).

On the LinkedUp blog we've just posted a list of example competitions 
where open data has played, or is playing a role.
http://linkedup-project.eu/2014/04/30/open-data-competitions/

Quite a few are relevant to education.

Marieke

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[LODLAM] Open Humanities Awards: second round open until 30 
May 2014
Date: 	Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:52:59 +0200
From: 	Lieke Ploeger <lieke.ploeger at okfn.org>
Reply-To: 	lod-lam at googlegroups.com
To: 	lod-lam at googlegroups.com



Dear all,

We are excited to announce the second round of the Open Humanities 
Awards <http://openhumanitiesawards.org/>, running from 30 April until 
30 May 2014. There are €20,000 worth of prizes on offer in two dedicated 
tracks:

  * Open track: for projects that either use open content, open data or
    open source tools to further humanities teaching and research
  * DM2E track: for projects that build upon the research, tools and
    data of the DM2E project <http://www.dm2e.eu/>

*Why are we running these Awards?*
Humanities research is based on the interpretation and analysis of a 
wide variety of cultural artefacts including texts, images and 
audiovisual material. Much of this material is now freely and openly 
available on the internet enabling people to discover, connect and 
contextualise cultural artefacts in ways previously very difficult.

We want to make the most of this new opportunity by encouraging budding 
developers and humanities researchers to collaborate and start new 
projects that use this open content and data paving the way for a 
vibrant cultural and research commons to emerge.

In addition, the DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana) project has 
developed tools to support Digital Humanities research, such as Pundit 
(a semantic web annotation tool), and delivered several interesting 
datasets from various content providers around Europe. The project is 
now inviting all researchers to submit a project building on this DM2E 
research in a special DM2E track.
*
What do we want to see?*
For the Open track, we are challenging humanities researchers, designers 
and developers to create innovative projects open content, open data or 
open source to further teaching or research in the humanities. For 
example you might want to:

  * Start a project to collaboratively transcribe, annotate, or
    translate public domain texts
  * Explore patterns of citation, allusion and influence using
    bibliographic metadata or textmining
  * Analyse and/or visually represent complex networks or hidden
    patterns in collections of texts
  * Use computational tools to generate new insights into collections of
    public domain images, audio or texts

For the DM2E track, we invite you to submit a project building on the 
DM2E research: information, code and documentation on the DM2E tools is 
available through our DM2E wiki <http://wiki.dm2e.eu/Main_Page>, the 
data is at http://data.dm2e.eu <http://data.dm2e.eu/>. Examples include:

  * Building open source tools or applications based on the API’s developed
  * A project focused on the visualisation of data coming from Pundit
  * A deployment of the tools for specific communities
  * A project using data aggregated by DM2E in an innovative way
  * An extension of the platform by means of a practical demonstrative
    application

*Who is behind the awards?*
The Awards are being coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation and 
are part of the DM2E project. They are also supported by the Digital 
Humanities Quarterly.

*Who can apply?*
The Awards are open to any citizen of the EU.

*Who is judging the Awards?*
The Awards will be judged by a stellar cast of leading Digital Humanists:

  * Professor Andrew Prescott, Kings College London
  * Professor David Robey, University of Oxford
  * Dr Melissa Terras, University College London
  * Nicole Coleman, Stanford University Humanities Center
  * Dr Laurent Romary, INRIA
  * Sally Chambers, DARIAH-EU

*How to apply*
Applications are open from today (30 April 2014). Go to 
openhumanitiesawards.org <http://openhumanitiesawards.org/> to apply. 
The application deadline is 30 March 2014, so get going and good luck!

*More information…*
For more information on the Awards including the rules and ideas for 
open datasets and tools to use visit openhumanitiesawards.org 
<http://openhumanitiesawards.org/>.

-- 
Lieke Ploeger

Community Manager | skype: laploeger  | @liekeploeger 
<https://twitter.com/liekeploeger>

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