Elsevier Article 2.0 Contest starts September 1
Over at The Life Scientists room on FriendFeed (thanks to Bill for introducing me to the site), Pierre has posted a link to the Elsevier Article 2.0 Competition. The details are scarce at the moment, but enough to pique my interest:
We will provide contestants with access to approximately 7,500 full-text XML scientific articles (including images) and challenge each contestant to be the publisher. In other words, each contestant will have complete freedom for how they would like to present the scientific research articles contained in the Article 2.0 dataset.
And there are prizes to be won as well:
First Prize: $2500 Second Prize: $1000 Third Prize: $500
I’m really hoping that I’ll be able to put together an entry. I’m not as familiar with Xquery as I should be, but I’ve got a couple of months to learn I suppose. I’ve already started brainstorming a pile of ideas of course. It’s what I do best.
I’m not sure if the rules will allow for teams, but I think it would be really great if some of the Open Access proponents could work together to generate a really fine product which relies on the many OA resources that are available on the internet. It’s a prime opportunity to demonstrate the value added by opening up the articles in this way.
