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# Ross Singer wins software contest
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/ross-singer-wins-software-contest/
- Published: 2006-09-28T14:17:32.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:52:01.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: #MPOW

Probably [appropriate](https://dilettantes.code4lib.org/2006/09/12/mission-haiku/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) to do this as a haiku 😉  
To: rsinger@gatech  
From: OCLC  
The check’s in the mail.  
I am pleased to [announce](https://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2006-09-28.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net) that Ross wins our second software contest with [Umlaut](https://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/features/umlaut-about.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net). Congratulations Ross …!  
And Jesse Andrews was a very strong runner up with [BookBurro](https://bookburro.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net).  
Thanks to judges [Thom Hickey](https://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), [Walt Crawford](https://walt.lishost.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), [Liz Lawley](https://mamamusings.net/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) and [Roy Tennant](https://roytennant.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net).  
There is a description of Umlaut with examples of use at this page:

> The Umlaut is an OpenURL Link Resolver intended to improve access to library collections by contextualizing citations and available holdings more accurately for a given user. It utilizes a host of web services, including many from OCLC, and will take several paths depending on what it finds at various stages. \[[About Ross Singer’s Umlaut \[OCLC\]](https://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/features/umlaut-about.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

And folks can follow developments at that must-go destination, the [Dilettante’s Ball](https://dilettantes.code4lib.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net).