24 hours, your apps, your creativity!

Welcome to the first year of the Sydney Hackathon, a 24 hour application development competition which will be held at the University of Sydney, School of Information Technologies, on the 24th to the 25th of September, 2011.

Developers and designers, students from any University in Australia or full time developers, are invited to enter the competition.

Teams of participants compete against each other to develop apps for science using data and APIs from the Elsevier and Google.

For more competition info click here.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is the largest publisher in the world of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) content. SciVerse ScienceDirect contains 25% of the world’s STM articles with more than 10 million scientific publications from 2600 scientific journals like The Lancet and CELL. SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest database of abstracts and author information with more than 40 million abstracts and information of 8 million unique authors.

Now, Elsevier has opened its rich scientific data to developers via its SciVerse platform, an implementation of OpenSocial, that allows gadgets or apps access to the STM content via RESTful APIs.

More information on the API's click here.

Location

The Sydney Hackathon will take place at the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney.

For the map and directions click here.

The Sydney Hackathon is co-organised by the University of Sydney, Sydney University IT Society and Elsevier. Thanks to our event sponsors the University of Sydney Union and OrionVM.