3rd Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon

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Our next Open Cultural Data Hackathon takes 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.

Note that the workshop programme will start 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.

Des Informations aux médias en français peuvent être téléchargées <html><a href=“https://glam.opendata.ch/wordpress/files/2017/05/GLAMHack2017_Informations_aux_médias_20170510.pdf” target=“_blank”>ici</a></html>.

For media inquiries, please contact:

Frédéric Noyer, f.noyer(at)docuteam.ch, 076 318 03 38 (French)
Martin Grandjean, martin.grandjean(at)unil.ch (French)
Beat Estermann, beat.estermann(at)openglam.ch (German/French/English)

Documentation of earlier events is available <html><a href=“https://glam.opendata.ch/hackathons/” target=“_blank”>here</a></html>.

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

The hackathon programme consists 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 invited guests

The descriptions of the Thursday workshops and meet-ups are provided below. The detailed description of the other workshops will follow in the course of the summer.

Registration: In order to take part in the programme as a regular participant, we ask you to register as soon as possible. (The original deadline was fixed at the end of August). We are also able to provide a limited number of stays at the nearby Lausanne Youth Hostel, free of charge, if you would like to stay over night in between the hackathon days.

Participation without registration: If you are just planning to attend the project presentation session on Saturday night or if you are curious and would like to peep in for a while to get a feel of the hackathon, you don't need to register: just come to our welcome desk and ask for directions!

Directions, Transportation

The hackathon will take place at the Genopode building on the University of Lausanne campus. A detailed map is available with transportation stops and the youth hostel.

From Renens (VD) Train Station, take the M2 Metro towards Lausanne-Flon and get off at UNIL-Sorge
From Lausanne Train Station, take the M1 Metro towards Croisettes, get off at Lausanne-Flon and take then the M2 Metro towards Renens and get off at UNIL-Sorge
From Morges Train Station, take the 701 Bus towards Lausanne-Bourdonnette and get off at Ecublens VD, Champagne.
There is a parking available, but it is likely to be full and costs 2 francs an hour. The name of the parking is Sorge.
From the Youth Hostel to the Hackathon, there are 3 options :
- nice 30' walk along the lake (see the map)
- walk to Bourdonnette and take either the M2 Metro towards Renens and get off at UNIL-Sorge or the Bus 701 towards Echichens and get off at “Ecublens VD, Champagne”
- take the Bus 25 at “Bois de Vaux” towards “Chavannes, Glycines”, get off at Bourdonnette nord, walk over to Bourdonnette, take the M1 in direction of “Renens VD, gare” and get off at UNIL-Sorge (during the day, there is a connection every 10'; travelling time around 20').
From Geneva Airport, take one of the IC or IR trains stopping in Lausanne (direction: Brig, Luzern, or St. Gallen), change in Lausanne and follow the instructions above.

If you are going directly to the Youth Hostel, check out the directions on the hostel's web page. If you are planning to leave your car at the hostel's parking (which is preferable to leaving it at the university), we advise you to check with the hostel in advance regarding conditions and availability.

Thursday, 14 September 2017
13:30 - 14:00	Welcome Desk: Arrival of workshop participants
14:00 - 18:00	Workshops / GLAM + Wikidata Meet-up
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner

Friday, 15 September 2017
9:00	Welcome Desk opens
10:00 - 11:30	Opening Message, Official Start of the Hackathon
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12:30 - 14:30	Lunch
	Work in groups	Workshops
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner
	Work in groups
24:00	End of day 1

Saturday, 16 September 2017
9:00	Work in groups	Workshops
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch
	Work in groups	Workshops
16:30 - 17:30	Preparation of project presentations
17:30 - 19:30	Closing address / Project presentations
19:30 - 21:30	Stand-up dinner

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 will take place:

Thursday, 14 September

14:00 - 18:00

<b>Content:</b> <ul> <li>Introduction to OpenRefine</li> <li>Hands-on exercises with data</li> <li>.csv export of sample data to a web dataviz platform (for ex. cartoDB)</li> </ul> </html> |

14:00 - 18:00

<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> </html> |

During the hackathon, participants have 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

14:30 - 15:20	<html><b>School of Data</b><br/><i>Oleg Lavrovsky, School of Data</i><br/>Data, data, everywhere! And yet… When is the last time data made a difference in your life? Have you taken the time today to think through the implications of all this machine-usable information to your self-confidence, critical faculties and overall success as a human being? When has art last inspired you to get creative with Taylor Swift? Together with the global School of Data network, we are putting together keyboards and brains to spread the idea of data literacy, to work for better data, to have more fun at hackathons! Join us for a round of Advanced Data & Dragons that aims to help you become more Adventurous, Benign and Correlational in your projects.</html>
15:30 - 16:20

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> |

16:30 - 17:20	<html><b>Wikidata Tutorial</b><br/><i>Sandra Fauconnier, Wikimedia Foundation</i><br/>A 50 minutes Wikidata tutorial to get you up to speed with editing Wikidata, and basic querying with Wikidata’s SPARQL engine. Participants are expected to already have a basic understanding of what Wikidata is, for instance by reading the <a href=“https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction”>Wikidata introduction</a> and by exploring Wikidata items a bit.</html>
17:30 - 18:20	<html><b>Wikidata Query Service Tutorial</b><br/><i>Lucas Werkmeister, Wikimedia Deutschland</i><br/>A 50 minutes tutorial going into more detail on the <a href=“https://query.wikidata.org/”>Wikidata Query Service</a>, the primary portal for advanced queries against Wikidata’s data. Participants will learn about the SPARQL query language and become familiar with Wikidata’s RDF export format.</html>

Saturday, 16 September

10:30 - 11:20

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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11:30 - 12:20	<html><b>Linked Data On Speed (Introduction to Linked Open Data) and online LD archival metadata (project aLOD)</b><br/><i>Adrian Gschwend, Zazuko & Frédéric Noyer, Docuteam</i><br/>In this workshop we will see how the advent of the World Wide Web has led to an exponential growth of the Internet and what was needed to make it happen. On the way there we will discover that we can do the same thing with Linked Open Data. Towards the end we will swallow the red pill and dive into some SPARQL magic. Practical example will be demonstrated based on the project aLOD that aim to put RDF archival metadata coming from several swiss archives.</html>
14:30 - 15:20

<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>|

15:30 - 16:20

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 on 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)

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

Organization Committee
Opendata.ch
	Oleg Lavrovsky
	Frédéric Noyer, co-lead programme committee
	Oliver Waddell, lead datasets team
	Radu Suciu, co-organiser Geneva hackdays
Opendata.ch / Basel University Library
	Lionel Walter, co-lead programme committee, co-organiser Geneva hackdays
Opendata.ch / Bern University of Applied Sciences, E-Government Institute
	Beat Estermann, project coordinator
infoclio.ch
	Isabelle Lucas, lead logistics & communications
	Enrico Natale
	Jan Baumann
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne
	Jeanette Frey (Director BCUL)
	Ramona Fritschi
Université de Lausanne, Laboratoire de cultures et humanités digitales (LADHUL)
	Dominique Vinck (Director LADHUL)
	Martin Grandjean, pre-event Digital Humanities, Lausanne
	Marianna Schismenou

If you have questions to the organization committee, please contact us here: hackathon2016@openglam.ch.

The Cultural Hackathon is 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, docuteam, and the Swiss National Library.

3rd Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon

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