Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH - ELympics—the Ex Libris Open-Platform Competition

Ex Libris launches an all-embracing antagonism to accolade the best, a lot of aboriginal cipher extensions from the chump community

Jerusalem, Israel - 9 November, 2009. Ex Libris® Group is admiring to advertise the barrage of ELympics, the Ex Libris open-platform competition. The Company will accolade prizes accretion $12,000 to the creators of the best cipher extensions to Ex Libris solutions during the antagonism period—November 9, 2009, to March 31, 2010. All associates of the Ex Libris chump association are arrive to abide their contributions via the CodeShare across (previously accepted as the Developer Zone) of the EL Commons collaborative Web site. The winners will be appear in May 2010.

The all-embracing console of board for the antagonism consists of Marshall Breeding, administrator for avant-garde technologies and analysis at Vanderbilt University (in the United States) and founding editor of the Library Technology Guides Web site; Sebastian Hammer, an open-source software developer who is the admiral and cofounder of IndexData, a aggregation that specializes in advice retrieval technologies; Dr. Andrew MacFarlane, chief academician in the Department of Information Science at City University (in London); and Yohanan Spruch, arch technology administrator at Ex Libris.

“We are analytic advanced to seeing the avant-garde cipher extensions that our chump developers actualize during the competition,” commented Tamar Sadeh, administrator of business at Ex Libris and the coordinator of the open-platform program. “EL Commons, with its CodeShare area, is an acutely abundant ambiance for the library developers in our chump community, and the ELympics antagonism will activate aboriginal account to enhance Ex Libris solutions.”

Commenting on the contempo advancement of the absolute EL Commons platform, Ms. Sadeh added: “EL Commons now provides even greater functionality and is added intuitive. With the rebranding of the Developer Zone as CodeShare, we are emphasizing its amount role in facilitating the administration of account and cipher extensions by associates of the Ex Libris community. The allowances of the open-platform affairs accrue not alone to breath developers; all of our barter accretion from the contributions of their peers.”

For data of the Ex Libris ELympics competition, see www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/ELympics.

About the Ex Libris Open-Platform Program
In May 2008, Ex Libris accomplished the open-platform affairs to advice institutions get the a lot of out of their Ex Libris solutions. The affairs provides an ambiance in which the accessible interfaces of Ex Libris systems are able-bodied defined, able-bodied documented, and readily accessible to the chump association and in which accord is accustomed and simple to achieve, in accurate through the EL Commons collaborative Web site.

About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a arch provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and analysis libraries. Offering the alone absolute artefact apartment for electronic, digital, and book materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, convenient articles that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their alteration into the future. Ex Libris maintains an absorbing chump abject consisting of bags of sites in added than 75 countries on six continents.

Dedicated to developing artistic solutions in abutting accord with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to aerate abundance and ability and, at the aforementioned time, abundantly enhance the user experience. By allotment users to ascertain and access the advice they need, libraries ensure their position as the arch to knowledge.

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