GLAMhack23
Sign up now for the 9th Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon in Geneva.
29. – 30.09.2023 @ Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, Geneva, free
Colonial collections, provenance research and the application of the FAIR and CARE principles in data governance!
After putting our efforts into raising awareness about OpenGLAM among museums, encouraging projects which engage an audience, working with linked open data, machine learning, human-computer-interaction and crowdsourcing, the focus of the 2023 edition lie on colonial collections, provenance research, as well as the application of the FAIR and CARE principles in data governance.
As in the previous editions, all types of heritage institutions are encouraged to provide data and to participate in the hackathon; it is our goal to improve the networking among them, especially also across sectors (museums, archives, libraries). As in most previous editions, the hackathon will last two days, with an online and offline side programme in the weeks preceding the event to transfer know-how on specific topics and foster the exchange among the OpenGLAM community.
We will spend 2 to 2.5 days at the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (MEG) in Geneva from 29 to 30 September.
The GLAMhack 2023 official program starts on Friday, but we are working on a possibility to participate in a side programme already on Thursday.
Introduction to Wikidata in English and German
As part of our Sum of all Swiss GLAMs initiative, we are organizing free introductory courses to Wikidata in English and German. This initiative is supported by Wikimedia Switzerland. The course will be made available online so that as many participants as possible can join in.
7. September: 10:30 – 12:15
Introduction to Wikidata in English
Language: English (online)
In this course, you will learn the basics of Wikidata. Simple exercises are used to reinforce what you have learned.
- Introduction to Wikidata
- Wikidata syntax (RDF Triple)
- Simple data entry
- Simple SPARQL queries
Course leader Gaston Wey (Opendata.ch)
Registration by email to gaston.wey@opendata.ch.
16. September: 10:30 – 12:15
Einführung in Wikidata auf Deutsch
Sprache: Deutsch (online)
In diesem Kurs lernen Sie die Grundlagen von Wikidata kennen und wie sie Wikidata nutzen können. Anhand einfacher Übungen wird das Gelernte vertieft.
Inhalt des Kurses:
- Einführung in WikiData
- WikiData Syntax (RDF Triple)
- Einfaches Erfassen von Daten
- Einfache SPARQL-Abfragen
Kursleitung: Gaston Wey (Opendata.ch)
Anmeldung per E-Mail an: gaston.wey@opendata.ch.
Wikidata Coffe Break July 22
Join us for a Wikidata Coffee Break and help fill in missing information on Swiss GLAM institutions.
On each of the dates below, we will meet online on zoom for 20 minutes and add missing information on Wikidata.
Monday, 18.7. 15:00
Tuesday, 19.7. 15:00
Thursday, 21.7. 10:00
Friday, 22.7. 10:00
No previous knowledge or registration is necessary. Just show up and have some fun with Wikidata. We’ll explain to you how it works. However, ideally, you’ll already have a Wikipedia or Wikidata account.
We will be adding coordinates, websites, and other data.
We’ll meet on zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84056734487?pwd=bTB3QU9VdTc2MXF5aTBDenRGcndHZz09
Meeting ID: 840 5673 4487
Passcode: 914190
Query:
https://w.wiki/5U83
Sign up for GLAMHack2022 & Pre-Events!
8th Swiss Open Cultural Hackathon in collaboration with the SUPSI in Mendrisio.
Opendata, performing arts, biodiversity!
This year’s 8th Swiss Open Cultural Hackathon is bringing together hackers, GLAMmers, coders, curious, artists, architects, design aficionados, biologists, scientists and all people interested, caring and passionate about all things GLAM!
We will spend 2-2.5 wonderful days at the SUPSI in Mendrisio and will have the University’s FabLab at our disposal.
The GLAMHack22 official program starts on Friday, but we’ll have networking and workshop opportunities ready from Thursday, November 3rd afternoon onwards.
Sleeping arrangements are possible at the Hotel Coronado in Mendrisio (please specify how many nights you’ll need when signing up, all rooms are shared).
SHARE YOUR DATA in view of the next Open Cultural Data Hackathon
You may own cultural data that you are ready to share. Please look at the infosheets and if you have any questions, feel free to contact beat.estermann@openglam.ch.
GLAMHack2022 Pre-Event
Workshop Day on Open/FAIR Natural History Data
On September 20th we’ll have a Workshop Day on Open/FAIR Natural History Data at the Natural History Museum in Bern.
The workshop day is intended for curators, managers, and users of natural history collections in Switzerland. It serves as a forum to draw up an overview of the current situation regarding data management and digitization in Swiss institutions and sets the collections and their data in the wider context of the emerging ecosystem of open/FAIR natural history data with its various infrastructures, stakeholders, initiatives, usage scenarios, value-added services, and governance structures.
The workshop day is a pre-event of the GLAMhack 2022, organized by the OpenGLAM working group of the Opendata.ch association, hosted by the Natural History Museum of Bern and supported by Plazi.org and the eBioDiv Project, in cooperation with SwissCollNet and Infofauna.
Date: Tuesday, 20 Sept. 2022
Time: 09:15 – 17:00
Place: Natural History Museum of Bern
What else….
In the meantime follow Opendata.ch on Twitter, LinkedIn or follow openGLAM on Facebook.
Check out our make.wiki.openglam space or our website.
Check out our open GLAM Newsletter and Opendata.ch Newsletter.
Wikidata Coffee Break April 22
Join us for a Wikidata Coffee Break and help fill in missing information on Swiss performing arts institutions and venues.
On each of the dates below, we will meet online on zoom for 20 minutes and add missing information on Wikidata.
Monday, 25.4. 15:00
Tuesday, 26.4. 10:00
Thursday, 28.4. 15:00
Friday, 29.4. 10:00
No previous knowledge or registration is necessary. Just show up and have some fun with Wikidata. We’ll explain to you how it works.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89186256208?pwd=M0JCamhVZncyVGh1eW5nTHhuVUpndz09
Meeting ID: 891 8625 6208
Passcode: 801995
On Monday we’ll be working with the following list: https://w.wiki/52Ww
On Tuesday we’ll be working with the following list: https://w.wiki/56bC
Save the Date GLAMHack2022
Get your agendas out and jot down the 4th-5th November 2022! Because we’re yet again doing what GLAMers do best: HACK!
This year’s GLAMHack is taking place in Mendrisio in collaboration with the SUPSI.
This is also a call for data suppliers to get their data, archives, libraries ready for some open data-ing in the field of cultural heritage, natural history and natural heritage!
Find out how to do that in German or French.
Stay tuned for more or write to [darienne.hunziker at opendata.ch] for more information.
We can’t wait to see and hack with you!
Zusätzlicher Wikidata für GLAM Kurs
Einführung in WikiData für GLAM-Institutionen Teil 1
Dienstag 15. Februar 2022, 19:00-21:30 Uhr
Deutsch, online
In diesem Kurs lernen Sie die Grundlagen von WikiData für GLAM-Institutionen kennen und wie sie WikiData für Ihre Institution nutzen können. Anhand einfacher Übungen wird das Gelernte vertieft. Der Kurs wird unterstützt von Wikimedia Schweiz.
Inhalt des Kurses:
- Einführung in WikiData
- WikiData Syntax (RDF Triple)
- Einfaches Erfassen von Daten
- Einfache SPARQL-Abfragen
Kursleitung: Gaston Wey (BFH)
Anmeldung per email an: andrea.allemann@opendata.ch
Wikidata Kurse auf YouTube
Im November haben Gaston Wey und Nicolai Wenger im Namen von Open GLAM.ch Wikidata Kurse gegeben, wer nicht persönlich, dabei sein konnte, kann alles auf YouTube nachschauen. Die Kurse und daraus resultierenden Videos konnten Dank der freundlichen Unterstützung von Wikimedia Switzerland durchgeführt und produziert werden.
Links zu den YouTube Playlist, den einzelnen Kursmodulen, sowie den Kursunterlagen als PDF findet ihr unten.
Einführungs-Präsentation zum Herunterlanden als pdf
Wikidata Einführungskurs Block 1: Einführung zu Wikidata und Wikimedia
Wikidata Einführungskurs Block 2: Konzept und Syntax
Wikidata Einführungskurs Block 3: Einfache Erfassung von Daten in Wikidata
Wikidata Einführungskurs Block 4: Einfache SPARQL Abfrage
Fortgeschrittenen-Präsentation zum Herunterladen als pdf
Wikidata Fortgeschrittenenkurs Block 1: Fragen aus den vorherigen Kursen
Wikidata Fortgeschrittenenkurs Block 2: Konzept Linked Open Data
Wikidata Fortgeschrittenenkurs Block 3: SPARQL queries
Wikidata Fortgeschrittenenkurs Block 4: Automatisierter Datenimport
WikiData for GLAM
As part of our Sum of all Swiss GLAMs initiative, we are organizing free introductory courses to WikiData for GLAM institutions. This initiative is supported by Wikimedia Switzerland. The courses in German will take place on location at the Berner Fachhochschule in Bern while the courses in English will take place online via MS Teams.
20. Oktober: 13:30 – 15:15
Einführung in WikiData für GLAM institutionen Teil 1
Deutsch, an der BFH (Brückenstrasse 73, 3005 Bern, Raum H031, EG Hauptgebäude)
In diesem Kurs lernen Sie die Grundlagen von WikiData für GLAM-Institutionen kennen und wie sie WikiData für Ihre Institution nutzen können. Anhand einfacher Übungen wird das Gelernte vertieft.
Inhalt des Kurses:
- Einführung in WikiData
- WikiData Syntax (RDF Triple)
- Einfaches Erfassen von Daten
- Einfache SPARQL-Abfragen
Es gelten die aktuellen Corona Regeln der BFH: GGG.
Kursleitung: Nicolai Wenger (BFH)
Anmeldung per email an: nicolai.wenger@bfh.ch.
27. Oktober: 17:30-19:15
Introduction to WikiData for GLAM institutions part 1
Englisch (online; MS-Teams)
In this course, you will learn the basics of WikiData for GLAM institutions and how you can use WikiData for your institution. Simple exercises are used to reinforce what you have learned.
- Introduction to WikiData
- WikiData syntax (RDF Triple)
- Simple data entry
- Simple SPARQL queries
The current Corona rules of the BFH apply: GGG.
Course leader Nicolai Wenger (BFH)
Registration by email to nicolai.wenger@bfh.ch.
10. November: 13:30 – 15:15
Einführung in WikiData für GLAM institutionen Teil 2
Deutsch, an der BFH (Brückenstrasse 73, 3005 Bern, Raum H031, EG Hauptgebäude)
In diesem Kurs lernen sie wie sie WikiData noch besser für Ihre Institution nutzen können. Falls Sie bereits Kenntnisse in WikiData haben können sie den Kurs auch ohne vorherigen Besuch des ersten Teiles besuchen.
Inhalt des Kurses:
- SPARQL Abfragen kreieren
- Einführung in Linked Open Data
- Batch upload
Es gelten die aktuellen Corona Regeln der BFH: GGG.
Kursleitung Nicolai Wenger (BFH)
Anmeldung per email an nicolai.wenger@bfh.ch.
17. November: 17:30-19:15
Introduction to WikiData for GLAM institutions part 2
Englisch (online; MS-Teams)
In this course, you will learn how to use WikiData even better for your institution. If you already have knowledge of WikiData, you can attend the course without having attended the first part.
Content of the course:
- Creating SPARQL queries
- Introduction to Linked Open Data
- Batch upload
Course leader Nicolai Wenger (BFH)
Registration by email to nicolai.wenger@bfh.ch.
GLAMhack 2021 – Creative and Fun Hacking
The 7th edition of the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon, carried out as an online event and organized with the help of the ETHZ Library, took place from April 16th to 17th. Over the span of two days, 17 new projects using cultural data were created. With about 75 active participants, the online event was a full success.
While we were sad that this year’s GLAMhack once again couldn’t be in person, the excitement of the GLAM community about the yearly Hackathon remained undeterred. The mood, atmosphere and collaborative spirit surpassed our (already high) expectations. It was great to see many familiar faces from past hackathons and many new ones. The results of this year’s hackathon are presented below:
helvetiX: An XR guide to Helvetia aims at providing an immersive Virtual Reality guide for any Roman merchant or legionary when travelling to ancient Helvetia. (In Latin, of course.) The project is based on the Peutinger Map, an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the road network of the Roman Empire.
The Collection Chatbot: Silverfish is an interactive chatbot which guides you through the collection of the Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte (Foundation for Art, Culture and History) and recommends objects based on user input. This creates a narration-driven experience of the collection. You can try the prototype on Telegram: https://t.me/SilverFishGlamBot
Another project dealt with The spatial evolvement of a Museums’ collection. The project maps the places of origins of the Museum der Kulturen Basel’s collection and thus gives an overview of the collecting habits of the museum over the past 121 years: https://hackathon21.netlify.app/
A walk through Zurich around 1910 lets you experience a stroll along Langstrasse based on the pictures of photographer Friedrich Ruef-Hirt (1873-1927). You can watch the video of the stroll online.
1971 and all that – Women’s Right to Vote in Switzerland analyzed relevant newspaper articles to see how the discourse around women’s suffrage changed over time.
Deploy Looted-Art Detector is an evolution of the Looted-Art Detector created at GLAMhack 2020 which helps find looted art in art collections. You can try it out here: https://artdata.pythonanywhere.com
Another project from last year which was further developed was Culture In-Time 2. Using linked open data the project lets you discover past and future events.
The team around Nachtschicht 21 a 3D, Virtual Reality & Art Exhibition created a VR space with contemporary artworks by young swiss artists to accompany the gallery exhibition.
Wikidata Tutorial Factory is a website featuring Wikidata tutorials for heritage institutions. During the hackathon several tutorial scripts as well as tutorials in four languages were created.
Another project working with Wikidata and other Wiki projects was the WikiCommons metadata analysis tool which compares the metadata of the source system of a GLAM institution (e. g. E-Pics Image Archive Online) and Wikimedia Commons and lists the differences.
Archived-Data-Driver helps understand data by creating a tool that could run on open data providers‘ servers, but also on a local computer, which automatically generates an overview of the files, images and along with some summary statistics.
The Pellaton Experience is a project to map over sixteen hours of interviews with dance historian Ursula Pelleton in a non-linear way and to enrich it with supplementary information.
The St. Galler Globus is another project that wants to enrich existing material with digital solutions to make the Globus’ narratives and historical context accessible to a broader audience interested in “Scientainment”.
By Making digitised scores audible, one project made digital scores available in e-rara and other databases more accessible by creating audio files to not only read them, but also listen to them.
Another project using e-rara worked on making formulas in old scientific titles more readable and searchable. e-rara: Recognizing mathematical Formulas and Tables helps OCR (optical character recognition) to also transcribe the formulas.
heARTful – Art & Emotions lets people judge the emotions of people portrayed in paintings. The project also lets you see how other people judge the painting and gives additional information about the paintings and their authors.
The scene lives! The demoscene that is. An open dataset of demoscene production was created to showcase demoscene works from the beginning to current times.
These projects are at various stages of development, ranging from sketches to fully-fledged prototypes; we are curious to learn about their future development and are looking forward to next year’s GLAMhack.
