GIF IT UP Winners Announced

By DPLA, December 11, 2014.
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There’s no better way to wrap up a busy year than with a showcase of awesome GIFs made from open materials. Over the past couple of months we’ve had tons of fun running the GIF IT UP competition with our good friends at DigitalNZ. Thank you to everyone who entered!

All the entries have now been judged by our judges, Adam Green, Editor of the Public Domain Review, and Brian Wolly, Digital Editor of the Smithsonian Magazine.

Adam and Brian judged the entries on:

  • Coherence with category theme
  • Thoroughness and accuracy of entry (including link to source material)
  • Creativity and originality

Thanks so much to those who participated, and congratulations to our GIF IT UP winners!

To browse all of the GIF IT UP entries, visit the competition gallery.

 

GIF IT UP Winners

ANIMALS

Lillie Le Dorre, from Wellington, New Zealand, wins this category with her precocious typing dog. Source material courtesy Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga.

PLANES, TRAINS, AND OTHER TRANSPORT

Darren Cole, from the United States, wins this category with his moving (and smoking!) monowheel patent. Source material courtesy the National Archives and Records Administration.

NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Richard Naples, from Washington, DC is awarded the winner for his elegantly fluttering butterflies. Source material courtesy Smithsonian Libraries via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

An animated GIF of butterflies and a caterpillar

YOUR HOMETOWN, STATE OR PROVINCE

Jason Varone’s mesmerizing map overlay of Brooklyn wins this category. Source material courtesy the US Government Printing Office.

GIF USING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE

Ron Leunissen in the Netherlands takes this award away with this stereoscopic image of the Penna. Cavalry at Newport News, en route to Porto Rico. Source material courtesy Boston Public Library.

WORLD WAR I

The Othmer Library in Philadelphia wins this award with their wagging WWI enlistment dog. Source material courtesy the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources via the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

OPEN

Nono Burling takes away the award for the open category with this romantically dancing couple, created from the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge. Source material courtesy University Southern California Libraries.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Jessica Pyburn’s beautiful snowflake animation is the winner of the People’s Choice Award for the GIF with the most Tumblr ‘notes’, 381 in total. Source material courtesy Smithsonian Institution.

GIF IT UP: FULL GALLERY

Looking for the rest of the GIF IT UP submissions? Check out the competition gallery here.