3rd Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon

Our third Open Cultural Data Hackathon took place on 15-16 September 2017 at the University of Lausanne, in cooperation with the Laboratoire de cultures et humanités digitales, BCU Lausanne, infoclio.ch and further partners and sponsors.

The workshop programme started already on 14 September in the afternoon.

The hackathon was preceded by several pre-events in spring 2017:

• 12 May and 13 May in Geneva: Geneva Open Libraries in the context of the Open Geneva Hackathons.
• 7 June in Lausanne: Pre-event "Digital Humanities" at the University of Lausanne.
• 9 June in Zurich: Open Archival Data Hackday in cooperation with the Association of Swiss Archivists.

In addition, a workshop dedicated to the Open Cultural Data Hackathon was held at the Public Domain Event in Basel (24 April 2017).

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Share your data in view of the next Open Cultural Data Hackathon

You may own yourself cultural data that you are ready to share. Please look at these infosheets (German / French) on how to share data. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact beat.estermann@openglam.ch.

University of Lausanne, “Genopode” building. Photo by Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 France, via Wikimedia Commons

• Collaborative Face Recognition and Picture Annotation for Archives
• Jung - Rilke Correspondance Network
• Schauspielhaus Zürich performances in Wikidata
• Swiss Video Game Directory
• Big Data Analytics (bibliographical data)
• Medical History Collection
• Old-catholic Church Switzerland
• Swiss Social Archives - Wikidata entity match
• Hacking Gutenberg: A Moveable Type Game
• OpenGuesser
• Wikidata Ontology Explorer

Have a look at the video recordings of the project presentations!

The hackathon programme consisted of:

• Three longer workshops/meetups on Thursday, 14 September, afternoon, i.e. before the official start of the hackathon
• a main hackathon track with a plenary session at the beginning and at the end of the event and self-organized group work in between
• a side programme with workshops on various topics, aimed at the transmission of skills and know-how related to the (re-)use of heritage data
• possibilities for participants to re-fuel and refresh themselves in a flexible manner
• a project presentation session on Saturday night, open to the public, followed by an apéro riche for hackathon participants and guests

Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 at the Basel University Library. Photo by M. Schwendener, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On Thursday afternoon, two longer workshops / meet-ups took place:

Thursday, 14 September

<b>Content:</b> <ul> <li>Introduction to OpenRefine</li> <li>Hands-on exercises with cultural data</li> <li>unconference-style sessions to discuss specific topics</li> </ul> <a href=“https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OCDHackathon2017_openrefine”>Etherpad</a> </html> |

<b>Target audience:</b> Experienced members of the Wikidata + GLAM Community as well as people who are new to either Wikidata or GLAM. Participants unfamiliar with Wikidata are encouraged to watch <a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA”>Asaf’s Gentle Introduction to Wikidata</a> ahead of the gathering.<br/><br/> <b>Programme:</b> <ol> <li>Round of introduction</li> <li>Short introduction into Wikidata</li> <li>Short input presentations by experienced members of the Wikidata + GLAM Community presenting some of their past and current projects</li> <li>Structured discussion on “Wikidata + GLAM: Where do we stand? What’s next?”, possibly with inputs from the Wikimania session on the same topic.</li> <li>Participants who are new to Wikidata + GLAM present their project ideas</li> <li>Common brainstorming around the project ideas, coaching by experienced community members (to be continued on demand during the two days of the hackathon)</li> </ol> <a href=“https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IAr87Fp9gom_lA6e7JZEDsPuSnnHpKYq04HZaA-yFVQ/edit?usp=sharing”>Introduction to Wikidata</a> <br/><a href=“https://de.slideshare.net/beatestermann/estermann-wikidata-glam-example-projects-20170914”>Example Projects</a> <br/><a href=“https://de.slideshare.net/beatestermann/estermann-wikidata-and-heritage-data-20170914”>Wikidata & Heritage Data: Where do we stand? What's next?</a> <br/><a href=“https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WD-Lausanne”>Etherpad</a> </html> |

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During the hackathon, participants had the possibility to attend several workshops aimed at the transmission of skills and know-how related to the (re-)use of heritage data.

Friday, 15 September

Citation indexes are an important component in scientific research. Tools like Google Scholar help researchers find literature, and data from citation indexes such as the Web of Science and Scopus are increasingly used for the evaluation of research impact. We will introduce the topic by discussing the history and objectives of the discipline of bibliometrics, and the current players in the citation index business. We will then discuss (and experiment with) two more recent developments: the efforts to make citation data openly available (<a href=“https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite”>WikiCite</a>, <a href=“http://opencitations.net/”>Open Citations</a>) and examples of projects which indexed the humanities literature (<a href=“http://dhlab.epfl.ch/page-127959-en.html”>Linked Books</a>), currently poorly covered by commercial citation indexes. If time allows, we will experiment with the analysis of a citation network using Gephi.</html> |

Saturday, 16 September

Venez découvrir Jupyter: <ul>

  <li>Langages supportés: plus de 50. Dont Python, R, Julia, Octave, Ruby, Scala.</li>
  <li>Traitement de données: nombreuses extensions disponibles, p.ex. Numpy (analyse numérique), Pandas (analyse statistique), Bokeh (représentation), Scikit Learn (machine learning).</li>
  <li>Interactivité: le code est interprété en live, des widgets permettent d’interagir avec vos applications</li>
  <li>Documentation et partage: texte riche (markdown), code et outputs sont réunis en un notebook. Un grand atout pour le partage, la réutilisation et la reproductibilité scientifique.</li>
  <li>Export: les notebooks sont exportables en divers formats: Présentation animée, Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, PDF entre autres.</li>
  <li>Open source et libre</li>

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<br/><i>Beat Estermann, OpenGLAM CH; Michael Gasser, ETH Library</i> <br/>Together with the workshop participants we would like to reflect on the future orientation of the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon and on the development of the community around it. Apart from the continuous strive to improve the long-term impact of the hackathon, there are several recent developments that should be taken into account in our reflections: <ul> <li> Raising the necessary funds for the national hackathon has become increasingly difficult and resource intensive. As a consequence, we have decided to launch a <a href=“https://glam.opendata.ch/friends-of-openglam/”>Friends of OpenGLAM Network</a> that should help secure the long term financial support of the event through regular contributions from data providers and other interested parties. </li> <li> This year we have seen the emergence of locally organized cultural data hackathons, like the Zurich Archival Hackday or the Geneva Library hackathon – a development we strongly welcome, but which also raises the question of how to articulate local/regional and national events in the future. </li> <li> Hackathons provide an excellent basis to create and develop prototypes of innovative solutions based on the data sets available. What would it take to build on these initial results and develop them into sustainable applications beyond the limited time frame of a hackathon? </li> <li> In cooperation with the Swiss Federal Archives, which runs the open data project of the Swiss Confederation, we have started to integrate our list of open datasets into the <a href=“https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset?q=glam”>http://opendata.swiss</a> portal. This is a step towards the consolidation of our activities. Improvements to the portal from the view of the OpenGLAM community and further steps to make use of synergies may follow. </li> <li> Next year's hackathon will be hosted by the Swiss National Museum. This is a good occasion to intensify our efforts of reaching out to museums and to think about how to cooperate with other organizations working at the intersection of museums, data, and co-creation, such as <a href=“http://www.museomix.org/localisation/lausanne/”>Museomix</a>. </li> </ul> </html>|

This session will present the ongoing revision of the <a href=“http://www.fsw.uzh.ch/histstat/main.php”>Historical Statistics of Switzerland Online</a>. We will briefly recount the shaping of this dataset, resulting from decades of research and data collection at the University of Zurich and first published in an analog form before being transferred online. We will also present the challenges encountered during the overhaul of the HSSO dataset and in the attempt of making it more user-friendly. Feedback from participants on the current revision and proposals for the future development of the dataset will be at the center of this session. </html>|

Coverage of the hackathon and the pre-events in the media and in blogs:

Pre-event in Geneva:

• "Die digitalen Räume der Bibliotheken öffnen", Interview mit Lionel Walter (von Roland Fischer, SocietyByte, 31.05.2017)

Pre-event in Zürich (Archival Hackday):

• #ZACK17 Zürcher Archiv Hackday (with images, tweets) (thist_uzh; Storify, 09.06.2017)
• Archive laden zum ersten Zürcher Archiv Hackday (von Christoph Grau, Netzwoche, 12.06.2017)
• Wenn Hacker auf Archivare treffen (von Christoph Grau, Netzwoche, 12.06.2017)
• Hacken erwünscht (von Anne-Careen Stoltze, SocietyByte, 17.06.2017)

Hackathon:

• "Wir haben mehr Datensätze als Programmierer", Interview mit Beat Estermann (von Anne-Careen Stoltze, SocietyByte, 11.08.2017)
• Wenn Daten einen zweiten Frühling erleben (von Biljana Jovic, SocietyByte, 21.09.2017)
• Des données du patrimoine suisse hackées? (La Gazette, 05.10.2017)
• Christkatholische Kulturdaten gehen online (von Jürg Hagmann, Christkatholisch, Zeitschrift der Christkatholischen Kirche der Schweiz, Nr. 17, 7. Okt.-3. Nov. 2017)
• Third Edition of the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon (by Beat Estermann and Sandra Fauconnier, This Month in GLAM, Volume VII, Issue IX, September 2017)
• Kultur in Daten: Der GLAM-Hackathon (von Martina Kammermann, Digital Brainstorming – Die Plattform für digitale Kultur und Medienkunst, 9. Oktober 2017)
• Open Data: Transparenz für alle (von Deborah Kyburz, Explora – Eine Erlebniswelt der ETH-Bibliothek, 12. Okt. 2017)

The event was organized by the OpenGLAM CH Working Group of the opendata.ch association, with contributions from:

The Cultural Hackathon was made possible by financial and/or in kind contributions from the Cantonal and University Library Lausanne, Lausanne University, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, infoclio.ch, Migros pour cent culturel, Wikimedia CH, the Bern University of Applied Science's E-Government Institute, docuteam, and the Swiss National Library.

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