Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:38 PM, John Mignault wrote: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is sponsoring a Code Challenge as part of the Life and Literature conference being held in Chicago November 14-15... More details are available on our website at http://www.lifeandliterature.org/p/code-challenge.html Interesting, and I see a growing number of these sorts of challenges. Fun! Is there a prize? -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame
Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
Egoboo. No, there is not a prize per se. :) --j On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:38 PM, John Mignault wrote: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is sponsoring a Code Challenge as part of the Life and Literature conference being held in Chicago November 14-15... More details are available on our website at http://www.lifeandliterature.org/p/code-challenge.html Interesting, and I see a growing number of these sorts of challenges. Fun! Is there a prize? -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame -- John Mignault Systems Librarian The LuEsther T Mertz Library The New York Botanical Garden
Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
Free Admission to Smithsonian Institution Museums! :-) On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John Mignault j...@mignault.net wrote: Egoboo. No, there is not a prize per se. :) --j On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:38 PM, John Mignault wrote: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is sponsoring a Code Challenge as part of the Life and Literature conference being held in Chicago November 14-15... More details are available on our website at http://www.lifeandliterature.org/p/code-challenge.html Interesting, and I see a growing number of these sorts of challenges. Fun! Is there a prize? -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame -- John Mignault Systems Librarian The LuEsther T Mertz Library The New York Botanical Garden
Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:38 PM, John Mignault j...@mignault.net wrote: Through local and global digitization efforts, BHL has digitized over 32 million pages of taxonomic literature, representing over 45,000 titles and 87,000 volumes (January 2011). The entire -corpus- dataset is freely available and accessible via many open methods. shamelssSelfPromotionIncidentally, there are 1,440 links from 952 Wikipedia articles to the BHL [1]./shamelessSelfPromotion //Ed [1] http://linkypedia.inkdroid.org/websites/34/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
On 2011-09-01, at 13:24, John Mignault j...@mignault.net wrote: Egoboo. No, there is not a prize per se. :) --j On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:38 PM, John Mignault wrote: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is sponsoring a Code Challenge as part of the Life and Literature conference being held in Chicago November 14-15... More details are available on our website at http://www.lifeandliterature.org/p/code-challenge.html Interesting, and I see a growing number of these sorts of challenges. Fun! Is there a prize? -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame -- John Mignault Systems Librarian The LuEsther T Mertz Library The New York Botanical Garden
Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
Hahahaha, for life, even! From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Suzanne Pilsk [suzanne.pi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:31 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge Free Admission to Smithsonian Institution Museums! :-) On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John Mignault j...@mignault.net wrote: Egoboo. No, there is not a prize per se. :) --j On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:38 PM, John Mignault wrote: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is sponsoring a Code Challenge as part of the Life and Literature conference being held in Chicago November 14-15... More details are available on our website at http://www.lifeandliterature.org/p/code-challenge.html Interesting, and I see a growing number of these sorts of challenges. Fun! Is there a prize? -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame -- John Mignault Systems Librarian The LuEsther T Mertz Library The New York Botanical Garden
Re: [CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
Egoboo. No, there is not a prize per se. :) --j Good work is its own reward ;)
[CODE4LIB] Life and Literature Code Challenge
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is sponsoring a Code Challenge as part of the Life and Literature conference being held in Chicago November 14-15. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). BHL content may be freely viewed through the online reader or downloaded in part or as a complete work in PDF, OCR text, or JPG2000 file formats. Your challenge is to provide a new, innovative way to use, disseminate or display BHL data a description of what your project is trying to accomplish the source code to reproduce the application any libraries or supporting code needed to reproduce the application any build instructions or scripts are needed to build application or instructions how to run it any notes about your experience implementing this code: how you came up with your design, blind alleys you went up, or surprising problems you ran into or anything else you want to share. The dataset Through local and global digitization efforts, BHL has digitized over 32 million pages of taxonomic literature, representing over 45,000 titles and 87,000 volumes (January 2011). The entire -corpus- dataset is freely available and accessible via many open methods. Timeline Deadline for entries is October 17, 2011. The winner will be announced on November 1, 2011. More details are available on our website at http://www.lifeandliterature.org/p/code-challenge.html Thanks, and enter! --j -- John Mignault Systems Librarian The LuEsther T Mertz Library The New York Botanical Garden
