Briefs #2: OCLC Research Names Contest Winner; Institute of Museum and Library Services and National Endowment for the Humanities Partner to Spur Innovation

+ Ross Singer of Georgia Tech wins Second OCLC Research Software Contest (via OCLC)

Ross Singer has won the Second OCLC Research Software Contest with Umlaut, an OpenURL Link Resolver intended to improve access to library collections by contextualizing citations and available holdings more accurately for a given user…Currently running with Georgia Tech’s catalog, Umlaut utilizes a host of web services and can take several paths depending on what it finds at various stages.

+ Institute of Museum and Library Services and National Endowment for the Humanities Partner to Spur Innovation

+ SPARC Teams up with Public Knowledge Project