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SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2007
Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 x 121
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
CALL FOR ENTRIES
SPARC Announces Mind Mashup:
A Video Contest to Showcase Student Views on Information Sharing
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales and Documentary Filmmaker Peter Wintonick
Among Judges Selecting $1,000 Prize Winner
Washington, DC - July 25, 2007 - SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition) today announced the launch of the first
annual SPARC Discovery Awards, a contest to promote the open exchange of
information. Mind Mashup, the theme of the 2007 contest, calls on
entrants to illustrate in a short video the importance of sharing ideas
and information of all kinds. Mashup is an expression referring to a
song, video, Web site or software application that combines content from
more than one source.
Consistent with SPARC's mission as an international alliance of academic
and research libraries promoting the benefits of information sharing,
the contest encourages new voices to join the public discussion of
information policy in the Internet age. Designed for adoption as a
college or high school class assignment, the SPARC Discovery Awards are
open to anyone over the age of 15.
Contestants are asked to submit videos of two minutes or less that
imaginatively show the benefits of bringing down barriers to the open
exchange of information. Submissions will be judged by a panel that
includes:
* Aaron Delwiche, Assistant Professor in the Department of
Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas
* Jos-Marie Griffiths, Professor & Dean at the School of Information
and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* Rick Johnson, communications consultant and founding director of SPARC
* Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
* Karen Rustad, president of Free Culture 5C and a senior at Scripps
College majoring in media studies
* Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
* Peter Wintonick, award-winning documentary filmmaker and principal
of Necessary Illusions Productions Inc.
"I'm very proud to be judging this contest," said Karen Rustad. "When it
comes to debates over Internet information policy, students are usually
subjects for study or an object for concern. I can't wait to see what my
contemporaries have to say about mashup culture and open access to
information once they're given the mike -- or, rather, the camera."
The contest takes as its inspiration a quote from George Bernard Shaw:
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will
have two ideas."
Submissions must be received by December 2, 2007. Winners - including a
first-place winner and two runners up - will be announced in January
2008. The winner will receive $1,000 and a "Sparky Award." The runners
up will each receive $500. Winning entries will be publicly screened at
the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in January 2008 in
Philadelphia and will be prominently featured in SPARC's international
advocacy and campus education activities.
For further details, please see the contest Web site at
http://sparkyawards.org.
SPARC
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than
800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system
of scholarly communication. SPARC is a founding member of the Alliance
for Taxpayer Access, a coalition of patient, academic, research, and
publishing organizations that supports open public access to the results
of federally funded research - including research funded by the National
Institutes of Health. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc/.
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