On January 27th and 28th 2015 the first Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon took place at the Swiss National Library.
More than 100 programmers, GLAM representatives and scholars worked together over the course of two days in an attempt to make the most of a selection of open cultural datasets provided by Museums, Libraries and Archives in Switzerland for this particular event. More than twenty projects were carried out during the two-day Hackathon. This post displays the results of this event.
Short descriptions of the single projects are available online.
Also take a look at the photos on Wikimedia Commons and on our Picasa Page, or on the several press articles that were published about the Hackathon.
La Liberté (23.06.15) - Un mer de données culturelles (Paywall)
Le Temps (26.02.15) - Un safari culturel dans la jungle des données
Le Nouvelliste (28.02.15) - La culture, façon Hackers (Paywall)
Berner Zeitung (28.02.15) - Freigeister hacken kulturelle Daten
Digital Brainstroming (28.02.15) - Kultur Hackathon in der Schweizer Landesbibliothek (Podcast)
SRF2 Kultur Kompakt (02.03.2015) - Kultur-Hackathon: Schweizer Kulturerbe, neu programmiert
An multimedia documentation, including a short film and the video record of the results session will follow shortly.
Many thanks to all organizers and participants for the pleasant atmosphere and the very interesting results of this event !
Image Credit: "CH-NB-Swiss Open Cultural Hackathon 2015-Picture-030" by Swiss National Library; Simon Schmid, Fabian Scherler - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
