Flyer décrivant l'événement.
This event is intended for anyone with an interest in Open Cultural Data : data providers, librarians, archivists, software developers, designers, artists, Wikipedians, library users and other interested people in order to experiment with how cultural data and content can be used for research purposes, for web and mobile apps, in the context of Wikipedia, for artistic re-mixes, or for other forms of re-use. This event is connected and meant as a preparation to the 3rd Open Cultural Data Hackathon which will be held on September 15th and 16th in Lausanne. Geneva Open Libraries consists of two parts:
Participants are welcome to attend either the whole event or only the Friday or Saturday portions.
14:00 | Open Glam Concept presentation and showcase of the first two Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathons | Beat Estermann, coordinator of openglam.ch |
14:25 | Projects and Challenges of three Geneva Cultural Institutions with Open Data : | |
Archives d'Etat de Genève | Anouk Dunant Gonzenbach, archiviste | |
United Nations Library at Geneva | Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Chief, Institutional Memory Section & Ruth Hahn-Weinert, Chief of the Library Services Section | |
The Bodmer Lab | Radu Suciu, collaborateur scientifique, Bodmer Lab, Université de Genève | |
14:45 | Invited Talk : An Open Information Age | Rufus Pollock, Founder and President, Open Knowledge |
15:15 | Short presentation of participants and their expectations | |
15:30 | Coffee Break | |
15:45 | Ideas pitching, Split into small groups, hack and enjoy | |
18:00 | Wrap-up |
All day-long hacking, working in small groups on various topics around open cultural data. This will happen in the brand new Make Space of the Campus Biotech Innovation park.
9:00 | Begin of hacking |
~12:00 | Lunch provided free of charge to all participants |
13:00 | Hacking continues |
18:00 | Deadline to send the Posters to the A1 printer |
18:00 or later | Wrap-up (Pizzas are provided) |
18:30 | Projects selected for the Sunday presentation will be announced |
On Sunday, interested participants can join all other participants of the Open Geneva Hackathons, whose goal is to make the city and the world more sustainable, by helping open innovation generated by citizen, associations, and the institutions. The Open Geneva Hackathons organizers will select 10 projects developed during all the hackathons that will be featured in the final presentations.
A separate registration is needed to attend the Sunday event.
13:00 - 15:30 | Mandatory coaching session for the presenters of selected projects |
15:00 - 16:00 | Posters from all the Open Geneva Hackathons Projects |
16:00 - 17:30 | Presentations of selected projects |
17:30 - 19:00 | Cocktail & networking |
Seront mises à disposition des données (fichiers jpeg hi-res) et méta-données d’un ensemble de livres de voyages de la Renaissance richement illustrés, ainsi qu’une centaine de versions différentes (éditions, traductions) du Faust de Goethe. Des manuscrits autographes de langue française seront aussi rendus accessibles pendant la durée du hackathon. Idées
Les données historiques numérisées des Archives d’Etat de Genève sont disponibles via http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/data:glam_ch#inventories_of_historical_collections. Un disque dur avec toutes les images et les métadonnées sera disponible lors de l'événement.
Pour toutes ces bibliothèques, la description de tous leurs documents (métadonnées) est disponible via Swissbib. Pour une interface web, utiliser https://www.swissbib.ch. Pour un accès informatique (API), passer par http://sru.swissbib.ch/sru/form. Cela correspond à plus de 1,5 million de documents de plus de 60 bibliothèques.
Les métadonnées décrivant les plus de 70'000 partitions et documents de la bibliothèque du Conservatoire de Musique de Genève seront disponibles pendant l'événement.
On Saturday, posters are printed free of charge by Hewlett Packard in Meyrin from 6pm until 8pm. All posters must be prepared in A1 format (594x 841mm) in Acrobat .pdf format. Posters can be either in French or English.
Posters must be sent to posters@opengeneva.org, not later than Saturday 13th 6pm (firm deadline). Please avoid large files and saturated colors over large surfaces.
Unless notified to do otherwise, all posters will be archived in an online public repository on the Open Geneva Hackathon website.
Add your own project idea and let the organizers know about it.