MUSE Awards open for submissions

Each year, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) organises the Muse Awards to recognize inspiring and outstanding digital media projects 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, within various categories such as Applications and APIs, Mobile applications and Multimedia installations.

Especially interesting for OpenGLAM is the award category ‘Open’ (which was first added last year) that celebrates and showcases 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 23 February 2015 3 March 2015.  The winners for each category will be presented at the 2015 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo (26-29 April, Atlanta). More information on the awards and the submission process is available from the AAM website.