Utrecht2013

The Open Monument Data Hackathon will be held in Utrecht on 23 February 2013. It is organised as a joint effort of Wikimedia Netherlands and Wiki Loves Monuments. The main focus of the event is on extraction of structured open data from publicly available or specifically provided resources.

Wiki Loves Monuments is an initiative for creating and collecting photographs of cultural heritage sites (monuments): it started in 2010 in the Netherlands as a photographing contest and quickly grew to include volunteers from many other countries and it has become the largest photography competition in the world (Guinness World Records). As one can imagine, in the Netherlands the coverage is pretty high by now.

To keep the contest challenging, for 2013 the Dutch contest will also include monuments of local significance. Before the contest can commence, the necessary data about such monuments needs to be collected. This data (local monument lists) is sometimes publicly available, yet always scattered and often in a form unsuitable for querying, mining, surfing and other processing techniques provided by research results on big data.

As a part of the International Open Data Hackathon, we will have a focused effort of processing and/or improving available scatterred, damaged, incomplete open data and enabling its further use for the database of municipal monuments. Can you help to improve this data with your technical skills, data mining insight or specific knowledge about monuments? Please join us and make Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 even a bigger success!

You are invited. Again.

You can join by signing your name here: Open Monument Data Hackathon or by contacting Spider or Lodewijk directly.

Technical skills are welcome just as much as domain knowledge.

Please bring your own laptop, we will provide coffee, soft drinks and internet access. The hackathon will be held at the headquarters of Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland.

Planned activities for the Open Monument Data Hackathon:
 * Browse the web for municipal monument lists
 * Process pdf's, docs etc into structured lists on-wiki
 * Enrich lists with data from other sources (such as MIP)
 * Edit the lists and wikify, connect to articles where relevant (if that's your thing)
 * Connect the photos from the RCE donation to municipal monuments? (to be confirmed by Maarten)
 * Search for geo-coordinates (enrich)
 * Update the national monuments lists with addition from 2010-2013 monuments (to be confirmed)