Fwd: [SIG-IRList] Europeana launches Hack4Europe! 2012

[Glen Newton]

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Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:41 AM
Subject: [SIG-IRList] Europeana launches Hack4Europe! 2012
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Europeana launches Hack4Europe! 2012

As part of the ‘Connecting Society to Culture Programme', Europeana
will be inviting this year developers and designers to try out their
ideas for creative re-use of the Europeana content and build
applications showcasing the social and business value of open cultural
data. Possible development themes include mobile apps, mash-ups,
social curation, user annotations and World War One.

Participants will have access to the diverse and rich Europeana
collections containing over 21 million records, Europeana Search API
(incl. a test key and technical documentation), digitized WW1
memorabilia collected during the Europeana WW1 road shows in spring
2012 and Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot datasets, which currently
comprise about 2.5 million Europeana records available under a CC0
license.

Hack4Europe! 2012 road show will include 3 hackathons in 3 different
countries organised by Europeana and selected Europeana Awareness
partners between 9 May and 21 June.

More details on the registration to the hackathons are available at
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/hack4europe-2012

Each hackathon will announce at the end of the competition its own
winners in 4 categories:

•Best commercial viability
•Greatest social impact
•Most innovative app
•Developers' pick

Winners from the individual hackathons will be then further evaluated
and one finalist per category will be invited and awarded a special
prize during the Digital Agenda Assembly on 21-22 June in Brussels.

Check the individual event websites for registration and more details
about the organisation, categories and prizes at
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/hack4europe-2012

The Europeana office

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