GIF IT UP

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Over the last months of 2014, the Digital Public Library of America and DigitalNZ are holding GIF IT UP, an international competition to find the best GIFs reusing public domain and openly licensed digital video, images, text, and other material available via the organisations’ search portals.

Credit: Cat Galloping (1887). The still images used in this GIF come from Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements” (1872-1885). Courtesy USC Digital Library, 2010. Item is in the public domain: GIF available under a CC-BY license.

Credit: Cat Galloping (1887). The still images used in this GIF come from Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements” (1872-1885). Courtesy USC Digital Library, 2010. Item is in the public domain: GIF available under a CC-BY license.

The GIF IT UP competition (13 October–1 December 2014) has six categories:

  1. Animals
  2. Planes, trains, and other transport
  3. Nature and the environment
  4. Your hometown, state, or province
  5. WWI, 1914–1918
  6. GIF using a stereoscopic image

GIF IT UP will be co-judged by Adam Green, Editor of the Public Domain Review and by Brian Wolly, Digital Editor of Smithsonian.com.

Winners will have their work featured and celebrated online at the Public Domain Review and also on Smithsonian.com. The gallery entries with the most amount of Tumblr “notes” will receive the People’s Choice Award and will appear online at the Public Domain Review and Smithsonian.com alongside the category winners.

All the details and guidelines can be found at both DigitalNZ and the DPLA (which includes the submission form) and eligible entries will be posted to the GIF IT UP Tumblr gallery.