The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway is running a unique competition from 1 August to 30 September 2008 in conjunction with discussion forum Boards.ie. The competition is an open contest in which entrants can win over The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway is or run a unique competition from 1 August to 30 September 2008 in conjunction with discussion forum Boards.ie. The competition is an open contest in which entrants can win over €4000 in Amazon.com vouchers by submitting an interesting creation based on a data set of discussion posts from Boards.ie over the past ten years.
The data set (approx. 9 million documents) has been represented in the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) open data format developed by DERI, for expressing the information contained in social websites (such forums, mailing lists and blogs). Entrants may create whatever they feel is interesting based on this data.
The data reflects ten years of Irish online life, collected between 1998 and 2008 from Boards.ie.- one of Ireland’s busiest websites, with over a million unique visitors a month.
To the rules and find out more information on the contest at data.sioc-project.org
Pictured: Dr. John Breslin, DERI & Boards.ie founder
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