MUSE Awards 2014 adds ‘Open’ category

Each year, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) organises the MUSE Awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector. Institutions or independent producers who use digital media to enhance the GLAM experience and engage audiences are invited to apply for this awards, within various categories.

This year, for the 25th edition of the MUSE awards, the category ‘Open’ has been included, to celebrate and showcase interesting projects by or for GLAMs that have made use of open data and content. The following entries are accepted:

Entries are projects created by or for* GLAMS celebrating the ever growing bounty of innovative projects created in the open environment. Projects can include both front-end and back-end innovations. Projects must demonstrate how open data/content was used and the product created.

*By or For: This award can be submitted by anyone working with open data in the GLAM environment. We encourage anyone to submit projects that contribute to our larger mission to engage and education our community and to allow our repositories of global cultural heritage more to be more accessible and equitable for reuse.

GLAMs of any size, discipline and country are eligible to submit: the deadline for submissions is 1 April 2014. The winners for each category will be presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo in Seattle. More information on the awards and the submission process is available from the AAM website.