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Law Mining Hackathon
Open Knowledge Conference, Geneva, September 16-19, 2013
At #OKCon, an event co-hosted by Opendata.ch and OKFN, we focussed on law and build applications to help lawyers to be more productive and citizens to make sense of both Swiss federal law and international human rights law.
The hackathon was part of Open Knowledge Conference 2013, held in Geneva that brought together more than 900 participants from 40+ countries. We convened at the CICG conference centre for the first three days and wrapped up at the University of Geneva, CUI Battell.
We kicked off with a workshop of 25 people from different backgrounds - hackers, lawyers, activists and academics - and had then as many as 30 people who put their brains and computers together, and joined into the projects over the four days of the busy conference schedule.
Read more on the event home page ...
On this wiki: Results | Challenges | Open data | Contact
Results
Teams are still working for the next day or two on their wikis, but the full list of project links can be previewed in this document.
Challenges
We formed an expert panel from people who submitted law mining challenges. These were presented as starting points for the teams, who worked closely with experts assisting with their knowledge and guidance. The community guidelines were something we both applied and discussed at length.
All the Law Mining Hackathon wiki pages are linked here. We have broadly sorted them into the following categories:
Legal Concepts
- Etherpad: http://new.okfnpad.org/p/legalconcepts
Case Law
- Etherpad: http://new.okfnpad.org/p/caselaw
Usable Law
- Etherpad: http://new.okfnpad.org/p/usablelaw
Location
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”, Open Innovation Lounge) for the final day of hacking and presentations. Please note that we do ask you to have an OKCon ticket for this event.
Schedule
Monday, September 16, 2013
8:30
R8: Doors open, setup
10:00
R8: Welcome presentation (CL, JH, OL): rules, locations, timelines
10:15
R8: Challenges and data demos (Expert Panel)
10:45
R8: Kick-off speech
11:00
MR, HS: Brainstorming and team building
12:30
Lunch & listen lecture
13:30
Free coffee machines come online, OKCon registration
14:00
R8: Team intros, birds of a feather
15:00
Room 13, Floor 2:
17:00 - 20:30
HS: Hackspace open
Tuesday + Wednesday
HS: Legal data hacking!
Thursday, September 19, 2013
8:00
UB: Doors open, coffee, setup
9:00
UB: Welcome, OKCon highlights (CL, JH, OL)
9:30
UB: Team intros, birds of a feather
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Project submission deadline
13:30
Presentations
17:30
Wrap-up & clean-up
18:00
Doors closed
Contact
Please use the hashtags #okcon #legalhack on Twitter
The forum is here for posting something at length.
If you have a question to the organizers, email us.
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