The Repository Challenge at OR08
The judging of the repository challenge is in full swing and our august panel of judges are being treated to fast and furious demonstrations from eighteen different teams made up of delegates at the Open Repositories 2008 conference. This competition has been organised by the Common Repositories Interfaces Group and $5000 prize money is at stake for the best demonstration of some capacity to create a new and useful item of functionality that will work across at least two different repository platforms. Entrants have 5 minutes to put their idea over to our panel of 5 judges and then have to face a further five minutes of questioning. This is tough …! but all the participants are doing a great job of communicating their hard work, some of which has been created in hotel rooms and at various refectory tables around the campus of Southampton University over the last two days. The prize will be awarded at the conference dinner this evening.
Posted by: Neil Grindley
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