Fwd: [Icommons] Call for entries: SPARC Discovery Awards video contest
0 views
Skip to first unread message
Darío Alvarez
Aug 10, 2007, 2:14:18 PM8/10/07
to cc...@googlegroups.com, Arquitectura-E
Para estudiantes... favor difundir esta interesante iniciativa,
Darío
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gavin Baker < grb...@ufl.edu>
Date: 26-jul-2007 18:27
Subject: [Icommons] Call for entries: SPARC Discovery Awards video contest
To: icom...@lists.ibiblio.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/ .
SPARC | 21 Dupont Circle NW, Ste. 800 | Washington, DC 20036 |
www.arl.org/sparc
Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 x 121
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
_______________________________________________
Icommons mailing list
Icom...@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icommons
--
Profesor Darío Álvarez
FAU - UCV
http://dariojalvarez.googlepages.com/
-------------------------------
Arquitecto, Utopista
visite Arquitecturas: http://arquitecturas.wordpress.com y deje su comentario - gracias!
Darío
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gavin Baker < grb...@ufl.edu>
Date: 26-jul-2007 18:27
Subject: [Icommons] Call for entries: SPARC Discovery Awards video contest
To: icom...@lists.ibiblio.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/ .
SPARC | 21 Dupont Circle NW, Ste. 800 | Washington, DC 20036 |
www.arl.org/sparc
Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 x 121
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
_______________________________________________
Icommons mailing list
Icom...@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icommons
--
Profesor Darío Álvarez
FAU - UCV
http://dariojalvarez.googlepages.com/
-------------------------------
Arquitecto, Utopista
visite Arquitecturas: http://arquitecturas.wordpress.com y deje su comentario - gracias!
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages