Cosmic Collections - the Cosmos and Culture website competition

On 24 October the Science Museum is launching a competition to release hundreds of stories from our recently opened Cosmos & Culture exhibition on to the web. Join in as the Museum brings together astronomy enthusiasts and web developers in order to create an amazing mashup of creativity and ideas.

The data relating to the remarkable objects on display will be made open to the public so that competition entrants can 'mash it up', combining it with external resources and software to create new interfaces. This is a bold experiment for the Science Museum - we're releasing our data and what happens next is completely up to you. Your challenge is to create brand new web interfaces for the objects - to shine a new light onto them and bring the stories behind them to life.

Come to the launch event, to be held in London on October 24 at the Science Museum, to find out more about the competition and meet people who have the skills you need to put together a winning web interface.  Sign up at http://cosmiccollections.eventbrite.com/. 

You don't need to be in London to enter the competition - submission and judging take place online, and we'd love to see international entries. Collaboration and multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged - add your details below to find potential team mates.  In the meantime, check out some of the videos about the exhibition and astronomy on youtube.

If you want to get in contact, email via the event contact page or tweet @mia_out or with the hash tag #coscultcom.  The tag for images, video, blog posts, etc, for the competition and launch event is 'coscultcom'.

Looking for team mates?  Add your details here.