4th Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon

Our fourth Open Cultural Data Hackathon is taking take place on 26-28 October 2018 at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich – in cooperation with the ETH Library, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, the Swiss Social Archives, the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich, the Basel Historical Museum, Wikimedia CH, infoclio.ch and hopefully further partners and sponsors.

A Pre-Event to our Hackathon was held at the ETH Zurich on 11 September 2018. This event was aimed specifically at students and gave information about the type of data provided at the GLAMhack as well as examples of projects conducted during past editions.

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• Facebook (Swiss Cultural Data Hackathon)
• Twitter (Hashtag: #GLAMhack)

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.

Registration

If you wish to participate in the hackathon, you must register. This regards data-providers, programmers, designers, artists, experts and so on. If you just want to come by and check out how the hackathon works or attend the project presentations and Swiss GLAMhack Awards on Sunday, you do not need to register.

Online registration is closed, but you can still come directly to our registration desk at the Swiss National Museum.

Press release

Our press release concerning the GLAMhack Awards and this year's hackathon is now available.

Photo: Aura.ch © Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum

• Sex & Crime: Pub brawls in early modern times
• Wikidata-driven multilingual search in library catalogue

For the first time, #GLAMhack is hosted by a museum, and we would like to seize the occasion to encourage more museums to participate as data providers. Furthermore, we are introducing a couple of changes to our hackathon concept:

• This year's focus is on creating softwares or artefacts that engage an audience – either online or in form of exhibits/installations. We thereby also encourage the use of non-standard hardware, such as virtual reality equipment and the like – if you have any suggestions in this area, please get in touch!

• The two hackathon days are followed by a public project presentation event on Sunday afternoon, where visitors will have the possibility to test the products and to meet their creators. We will also award symbolic prizes to the best projects in several categories. While introducing this competitive element into the hackathon, we would like to preserve the collaborative spirit within the community. We see the awards mainly as an instrument to provide feedback to the teams and to facilitate communication with a larger audience.

The Swiss GLAMhack Awards will take place on Sunday, 28 October from 14h to 16h30. They include a short presentation of the projects developed during the Hackathon as well as the awarding of the jury prizes in several categories and an audience prize. Prizes of symbolic value are awarded taking into account the cooperative and experimental approach of the Hackathon.

The project teams formed at the Hackathon decide for themselves whether they want to participate in the competition (project presentation session and award ceremony) or not. Whilst we prefer the presentations be held in English, German and French are also acceptable.

Categories

The jury awards prizes in the following categories (one winning project per category):

• Perfectly made (for the project that enables the greatest gain in knowledge)
• Stunningly beautiful (for the project that best highlights one or more open cultural dataset(s))
• Brand new (for the most innovative or original project)

If there are project teams that have already started their work to a substantial extent in the run-up to the actual Hackathon, an additional prize will be awarded in the category:

• Long-distance runner

The projects that may participate in this category are based on the self-declaration of the teams participating in the hackathon.

The audience awards the prize in the category:

• Biggest round of applause

Members of the jury

• Sonja Gasser (Kunsthaus Zürich & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

• Michael Kempf (Landesmuseum Zürich )

• Enrico Natale (infoclio.ch)

• Mathias Müller (Institut für Computerlingustik, Universität Zürich)

• Lothar Schmitt (Zentralbibliothek Zürich)

• Michael Gasser (ETH-Bibliothek)

• Main hackathon from Friday morning to Sunday at noon
• Project presentation session on Sunday afternoon, open to the public, followed by an apéro riche for hackathon participants and guests
• NEW: Swiss GLAMhack Awards ceremony on Sunday afternoon

(the detailed programme is subject to change)

Hackathon 2017 at University of Lausanne. Photo by Laurent Dubois.

How to get to the Swiss National Museum

The Swiss National Museum (also known as Landesmuseum Zürich) is situated next to the Zurich main station (Zürich Hauptbahnhof) and can therefore easily be reached by train. Other means of public transport are the tram and bus: stops “Bahnhofquai/HB” (lines 4, 11, 13, 14, 17, 46) or “Bahnhofplatz” (lines 3, 6, 10, 31). For timetables, check SBB timetables.

There is no parking for cars at the museum. The closest parkings are: Zürich Main Station (Sihlquai 41), Central (Seilergraben) and Urania (Uraniastrasse 3). Further information can be found on the Swiss National Museum's website.

How to get to the Youth Hostel

The Youth Hostel is situated in Zurich Wollishofen, about 25 minutes from the National Museum by public transports. From the Zurich main station, take a train to the “Wollishofen” stop (lines S4 or S8), followed by a 5-minute walk via Staubstrasse to the youth hostel (sign-posted). Or take the tram line 7 from the stop “Bahnhofstrasse/HB” to “Morgental”, followed by a 5- minute walk to the youth hostel. The youth hostel has a limited number of chargeable car parking spaces.

Check-in: 15h-24h / Check-out: 6h-10h

For more information about the hostel: Zurich Youth Hostel

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

The Cultural Hackathon is made possible by financial and/or in kind contributions from the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, the ETH Library, Wikimedia CH, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, infoclio.ch, the Swiss Social Archives, and the members of the Friends of OpenGLAM Network. Further partners and sponsors are more than welcome!

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