[OpenGLAM] [openGLAM]: Remix public domain artworks with GIF IT UP 2017 - the international competition for history nuts and culture lovers

Fri Sep 29 08:33:07 UTC 2017

Dear all,

See below for the announcement of the next edition of the GIF IT UP
competition, which will be running again throughout October this year!

Best, Lieke

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From: Camille Tenneson <Camille.Tenneson at europeana.eu>
Date: 26 September 2017 at 12:01
Subject: Remix public domain artworks with GIF IT UP 2017 - the
international competition for history nuts and culture lovers
To:

*Remix public domain artworks with GIF IT UP 2017 -  the international
competition for history nuts and culture lovers*

*Tuesday 26 September - *From 1-31 October, all GIFmakers, history nuts,
cultural heritage enthusiasts and lovers of the internet are invited to
take part in the fourth annual GIF IT UP <http://woobox.com/v3qwr9>
competition.

The competition encourages people to create new, fun and unique artworks
from digitized cultural heritage material. A GIF is an image, video or text
that has been digitally manipulated to become animated. Throughout the
month, they can create and submit <http://woobox.com/v3qwr9> their own,
using copyright-free digital video, images or text from Europeana
Collections <http://www.europeana.eu/portal>, Digital Public Library of
America (DPLA) <https://dp.la/>, Trove <http://trove.nla.gov.au/>, or
DigitalNZ <https://www.digitalnz.org/>.

All entries help promote public domain and openly licensed collections to a
wider audience, and increase the reuse of material from these four
international digital libraries, including Europeana Collections. The
contest is supported by GIPHY <https://giphy.com/>, the world's largest
library of animated GIFs.

The 2017 competition will have a special focus on first-time GIF-makers and
introduce them to openly licensed content. A GIF-making workshop, providing
tools and tutorials to help visitors create their first artworks, will be
held on 14-15 October in cooperation with THE ARTS+, the creative business
festival at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The jury, made up of representatives from GIPHY, DailyArt and Public Domain
Review, will be awarding one grand prize winner with an Electric Object - a
digital photo frame especially for GIFs <https://vimeo.com/102763305> -
sponsored by GIPHY. Prizes of online gift cards will go to three runners-up
as well as winners in a first-time GIF-makers category. Special prizes will
be allocated in thematic categories: transport, holidays, animals and
Christmas cards.

People are also invited to take part in the People's Choice Award and vote
on the competition website for their favourite GIF, which will receive a
Giphoscope <https://www.giphoscope.com/giphoscope>. All eligible entries
will be showcased on the GIPHY channel <https://giphy.com/gifitup>
dedicated to the competition, and promoted on social media with the hashtag
#GIFITUP2017.

GIF IT UP started in 2014 as an initiative by the Digital Public Library of
America (DPLA) and DigitalNZ, and has since become a cultural highlight.
368 entries from 33 countries are featured on the GIF IT UP Tumblr
<https://gifitup2016.tumblr.com/>. In 2016, the grand prize was
awarded to ‘*The
State Caterpillar’
<https://giphy.com/gifs/gifitup-gif-it-up-3oz8xOg31IhaWkJXag>*, created by
Kristen Carter and Jeff Gill from Los Angeles, California, using source
material from the National Library of France via Europeana. Nono Burling,
who got awarded the 2016 People’s Choice Award for ‘*Butterflies
<https://gifitup2016.tumblr.com/post/151292480306/gif-it-up-2016-entry-by-nono-burling-of-olympia>*’,
said: “*I adore animated GIFs made from historic materials and have for
many years. The first contest in 2014 inspired me to make them myself, and
every year I try to improve my skills*.”

Results of the 2017 competition will be announced in November on the GIF IT
UP website <http://woobox.com/v3qwr9> and related social media.

*ENDS*

*Media contacts:*

Camille Tenneson - Europeana Foundation

E: Camille.Tenneson at europeana.eu

Eleanor Kenny - Europeana Foundation

E: Eleanor.Kenny at europeana.eu

*Notes for the editor:*

*Europeana **is Europe’s platform for digital cultural heritage with a
mission to ‘transform the world with culture’. Europeana Collections is
Europe’s digital library, museum, gallery and archive. From books, photos
and paintings to television broadcasts and 3D objects, Europeana
Collections provides online access to a vast store of cultural heritage
material from across Europe for everyone to find, use and share: for
research, for learning, for creating new things. (@EuropeanaEU)*

*The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)** connects people to the
riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other
cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through
DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal
letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much
more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural
institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of
America itself, from the smallest local history museum to the nation’s
largest cultural institutions. (@dpla)*

*Trove** is the digital arm of the National Library of Australia. Launched
in 2009, Trove is now many things to many people: a community, a set of
services, an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full text
digital resources. Trove is a platform on which new knowledge is being
built. It is a collaboration between the National Library, Australia’s
State and Territory libraries and hundreds of cultural and research
institutions around Australia, working together to create a legacy of
Australia’s knowledge for now and into the future. (@TroveAustralia)*

*DigitalNZ** is the search site for all things New Zealand, connecting
users to reliable digitised collections from its many content
partners—libraries, museums, galleries, government departments, archives,
broadcasters and community groups. Users can discover more than 30 million
digital items on any subject - free - including radio, print, and TV
interviews, maps, photographs, films, audio and artworks from New Zealand’s
early history to today. (@DigitalNZ)*

*Europeana DSI is co-financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe
Facility*

*Camille Tenneson *| PR & Editorial Officer
*T: *+44 (0)207 412 7114 <+44%2020%207412%207114>
*E: *Camille.Tenneson at europeana.eu

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