Mendeley, one of the world's largest crowd-sourced research databases, has announced the Mendeley API Binary Battle, challenging talented developers to build an application on top of Mendeley's open database of over 70 million research papers, usage statistics, reader demographics, social tags, and related research recommendations. The winning application will receive a grand prize of $10,001.
Modeled after Last.fm, Mendeley is leading the way with its social reference manager and collaboration platform to make research more productive and transparent. This challenge is all about creating applications that open up its academic data to others. To claim the grand prize, the winning application should increase scientific collaboration and mash up research data with social media in novel ways. Submissions will close on August 31, 2011.
The judging panel includes Juan Enriquez, the founding director of Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Project and CEO of Biotechonomy; James Powell, CTO of Thomson Reuters; and John Wilbanks, VP for Science at Creative Commons.
Mendeley is a rapidly growing technology startup that has built a platform for researchers to more effectively organise, annotate, share, and discover data. Used by more than 800,000 academic and industry researchers, Mendeley claims to be the world's largest research collaboration platform.
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