Dear Commons-l and Cultural-partners-l, This is an invitation going out especially to the Europeans...
In June Europeanawill be hosting a series of API-related Europeana hackathon roadshowscalled "Hack4Europe" in London,
Barcelona, Poznan
and Stockholm
in the week 6 – 12 June.Each
hackathon will have up to 30 developers from the hosting country and
the surrounding area. The goal is to come up with prototypes to "showcase the
social and business value of open cultural data". The four best projects will be
awarded special prizes during the Digital Agenda Assembly on 16 – 17 June
in Brussels.
It would be fantastic if a Wikimedia project could be one of those winners! At
their first Hackathon in the Netherlands last month the winner in the
"distribution and engagement" category was our very own Maarten Dammers
with a Commons Batch Upload tool:
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/api/hackathon-prototypes#feeds
Europeana is already a very good friend of ours in the "GLAM" space having been able to introduce us to many cultural institutions who are interested in donating to Commons. They recently they published the "European Public Domain Calculator" and previously the "Public Domain Charter" and were involved in the development of Creative Commons' "CC-O [public domain dedication]".