Written by: Carol Minton Morris

Atlanta, GA 

DSpace Committer and BibApp developer Tim Donohue won the $2,000. Open Repositories 2009 Developer Challenge prize with his entry “Mention-It” which is a simple javascript library that collects “mentions” of content held within an institutional repository (or personal blog) from anywhere on the Web. The “Mention-It” code is available on Google Code.

The second place winner, Rebecca Koesar, Emory University Library, was also awarded a $2,000 prize. Her prototype “Fedora FS” exposes Fedora as a desktop filestore using Fuse.

Read “Repo Challenge Winners” including video interviews with the winners by David Flanders on the JISC dev8D blog:

http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/2009/05/20/repochallenge-winners/

Read the Bibapp story here:

http://bibapp.org/2009/05/20/tim-donohue-wins-or2009-developer-challenge

The RepoChallenge is presented by the Open Repositories committee in cooperation with the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Microsoft (Dev8D blog: http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/).