Museum Hackathon: digging into museum data sets

Museum Hackathon: digging into museum data sets This digital humanities hackathon is focused on visualising museum data and making it accessible. This joint event brings together students and practitioners from the Media Centre and the Chair of Didactics of Computer Sciences of the TU Dresden (Germany), the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and several museums and heritage institutions in London and Dresden. This hackathon is kindly hosted by the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.  In several small, international groups the participants will develop useful, usable and good-looking software projects which have a potential for further development. These software projects will look at using existing data sets and making them accessible to the public or museum staff. We are also open to other innovative approaches to making use of the data sets.  If you are interested in certain topics or specific data sets, please let us know beforehand (email lucy.stagg@ucl.ac.uk)  so we can do our best to facilitate that. We also welcome proposals to utilise certain hardware (e.g., for VR applications). If you’d like to bring along hardware requiring special arrangements, please talk to us beforehand. Image © UCL Digital Media, 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Wednesday 7 November 2018: Input and concept creation Registration 9.30, Tea and coffee (provided) Morning (10 to 12): Input opening message presentation of problems and data sets by the museum/institution partners if applicable: presentation of initial ideas and/or specific hardware by the participants team formation (3 to 5 people per team) Lunch (not provided but there are many places to eat both in and around UCL) Afternoon (2 to 5): Preparation and mock-ups theoretical preparation (requirements, software flow: user stories and use cases) creation of initial mock-ups and first code snippets Evening (5:30 to 6:30): Presentation and feedback presentation of day 1 results internal feedback from the other groups Thursday, 8 November 2018: Implementation Tea and coffee (provided) Morning (10 to 12): Development software development Lunch (not provided) Afternoon (2 to 5): Development internal tests (project is tested by team members and members of the other groups) iterative further development Evening (5:30 to 6:30): Presentation and feedback presentation of day 2 results internal feedback from the other groups Friday, 9 Nov 2018: Completion and reworking Tea and coffee (provided) Morning (10 to 12): Development and presentation preparation for presentation 11 to 12: presentation of results to the museum partners Lunch (not provided) Afternoon (2 to 4:30): Clean-up, documentation, publishing reworking (code clean-up) code documentation publication of code and documentation Evening (5 to 6): Awards jury decision and awards ceremony farewell message