Law Mining Hackathon

Open Knowledge Conference, Geneva, September 16-19, 2013

Our next hackdays will take place at #OKCon, an event co-hosted by Opendata.ch and OKFN, and focus on the subject of building bridges between the world of legal information and open data apps useful to lawyers, lawmakers, and all citizens under the law. These apps might aggregate and sort through information, reduce repetitive work, make understanding and working with the law more accessible for everyone, and more. Read more on the event home page ...

On this wiki page: Challenges | Location | Schedule | Contact

We are forming an expert panel from people who submit challenges on the web site. These are posted here on the wiki, and will be starting points for the teams hackday project documentation. If you wish to brainstorm ideas of your own, our open legal data wiki could be of some inspiration.

The challenges will be excellent starting points for new teams to form and quickly get into the exciting process of data wrangling, working closely with experts who will be there to share their knowledge and guidance. Where you take your Challenge is completely in your hands: we only expect you to abide by community guidelines.

Room 8 (“R8” on the schedule) at the CICG conference hall will be used for the Monday kickoff. Please make sure you arrive early, as sitting room may be limited and we will dive right in on Monday morning.

Furthermore, throughout Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, a Hackspace (“HS”, outside of Room 8 at the same venue), will be the space to work at during the week. Your teams could of course move around the OKCon venue freely, and take part in the rest of the conference, but the Hackspace will be a focal point for lots of coding and tinkering during OKCon and we look forward to an excellent creative atmosphere forming.

The following are official opening hours of OKCon, i.e. the first three hackdays:

• Monday: 8:30 - 19:00 (building closes at 20:00)
• Tuesday: 8:30 - 19:00 (building closes at 20:00)
• Wednesday: 8:00 - 18:00

On Thursday we will move to the university campus Uni Batelle (“UB”, exact room TBC) for the final day of hacking and presentations. Please note that we do ask you to have an OKCon ticket for this event.

R8: Doors open, setup

R8: Welcome presentation (CL, JH, OL): rules, locations, timelines

R8: Challenges and data demos (Expert Panel)

R8: Kick-off speech

• John Sheridan

MR, HS: Brainstorming and team building

Lunch & listen lecture

• John Sheridan

Free coffee machines come online, OKCon registration

R8: Team intros, birds of a feather

Room 13, Floor 2:

• Clemens Wass

HS: Hackspace open

HS: Legal data hacking!

UB: Doors open, coffee, setup

UB: Welcome, OKCon highlights (CL, JH, OL)

UB: Team intros, birds of a feather

Lunch

Project submission deadline

Presentations

Wrap-up & clean-up

Doors closed

Please use the hashtags #okcon #legalhack to share with other participants.

The forum is here for posting something at length.

If you have a question to the organizers, please email mailto:lawmininghack@okcon.org.

There is no such thing as a stupid question, just things people say…