First Swiss culture hackathon

More and more libraries, archives and museums are digitising their cultural heritage holdings and making the digitised materials available online. Beyond the digitised items themselves, memory institutions are also putting more and more data online, e.g. bibliographic metadata or geodata. Although comparatively few datasets from cultural and memory institutions are yet available under an open licence for free reuse, these datasets already represent an inexhaustible source for innovative reuse. Are you interested in developing new ideas and applications based on freely reusable cultural datasets? The OpenGLAM working group and its partners warmly invite you to take part in the first Swiss culture hackathon on 27 and 28 February 2015 at the National Library in Bern .

Join in and give free rein to your creativity and your skill in handling cultural heritage datasets. At the hackathon you can be inspired by the ideas of the other participants. Researchers from the digital humanities, Wikipedians and representatives of data-providing cultural and memory institutions are particularly invited to take part.

Further information about the event and the programme can be found in the hackathon wiki. If you have any questions for the organising committee, feel free to write to us: hackathon2015@openglam.ch.

Interested in taking part? – The number of places is limited, so it is best to register right away via the registration platform.

We look forward to meeting you to explore the innovative possibilities of freely reusable cultural heritage datasets and to experiment together.

The organising committee