• Date / time : Friday 12 May 2017, from 14h to 18h and Saturday 13 May 2017 the whole day.
• Location for Friday : Library of the United Nations, Palais des Nations, Avenue de la Paix 14, 1202 Genève
• Location for Saturday : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
• Language : Most of the event will be in English but some parts will be in French.
• Registration : the participation is free. However, participants need to register. Don't forget to take an identity card or a passport with you to pass the security check at the Palais des Nations.
• Deadline for registration: 7 May 2017

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 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:

• During the first part (Friday 14h-16h), participants will get to know the different target groups of the hackathon (software developers, digital artists, digital humanists, Wikipedians/Wikimedians, data providers) as well as their perspectives, expectations, and previous hackathon experiences. The concept of the hackathon and the requirements regarding the datasets and licences will be shortly explained to first-timers, and there will be time for questions and answers. Three speakers from institutions in the Geneva area who have published Open Data or are in the process of publishing Open Data will share their insights about that process. The first part will end with an inspiring talk by the renowned Rufus Pollock, founder of Open Knowledge.

• During the second part (Friday 16h-18h and Saturday), we will hold a mini-hackathon, allowing participants to come up with concrete project ideas and work together on them. Thereby, data providers can get a better idea of what use could be made of their data and maybe start a conversation with data re-users. These ideas can then be investigated further during the 3rd Open Cultural Data Hackathon in September in Lausanne.

Participants are welcome to attend either the whole event or only the Friday or only the Saturday.

All day-long hacking, working in small groups on various topics around open cultural data.

On Sunday, interested participants can join all other participants of the Open Geneva Hackathons which address various topics in the whole Geneva to present the results of the Geneva Open Libraries Hackathon.

Ensemble de photographies du fonds d’archives de la Société des Nations, ainsi que d’autres documents historiques en rapport avec la Société des Nations. Plus de précisions suivront.

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.

Les données historiques numérisées des Archives d’Etat de Genève sont disponible via: du cadastre genevois, ou encore sur des registres du conseil.

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.

• BodmerLab: Radu Suciu, radu.suciu(A)unige.ch
• OpenGlam.ch: Lionel Walter, lionel.walter(A)unibas.ch
• UN Library: Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, bblukacz-louisfert(A)unog.ch