Hackathon prototypes
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Hackathon winner: Europeana Geo Search
Two related applications developed by the team of:
Adrià Mercader, Independent developer
App: Europeana API geo-wrapper
Code repository: https://github.com/amercader/geoeuropeanaGeorg Petz, Austrian National Library
App: Europeana Geo Search app for Android
Code: http://svn3.xp-dev.com/svn/eurohack/trunk/Europeana%20Hackathon/ -
Hackathon winner: Wikimedia batch upload
Developed by Maarten Zeinstra, Kennisland and Maarten Dammers, Independent developer.
App: find out more here
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Hackathon winner: Semantic enrichment game Europeana Banana
Developed by Jaap Blom, Beeld en Geluid and Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam.
App: description to follow
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Hackathon winner: Images explorer
Developed by Willem Jan Faber, National Library of the Netherlands
App: find out more here
Note: Please use FF4, Safari or Chrome for the best results
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Winner in the category "Application with greatest commercial potential": Art4Europe Hack4Europe! Poland, 7-8 June, Poznan
Developed by SaveUp team:
Tomasz Grzywalski, , iTraff Technology, tomasz.grzywalski@itraff.pl
Jakub Jurkiewicz, iTraff Technology, jakub.jurkiewicz@itraff.pl
Jakub Porzuczek, iTraff Technology, jakub.porzuczek@itraff.pl
Marcin Szajek, student at the Poznan University of Technology, szajek@programa.plDescription
How many times have you been in an art museum without knowing anything about the paintings you were looking at? Imagine you could take a photo of any painting and get the description of the painting is a matter of seconds! And what if you could translate the description to any of the EU languages? And even have it read loud for you? You can do this all with the Europeana dataset and the Art4Europe project!Prototype:
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Winner in the category "Audience Award": Timebook Hack4Europe! Spain, 8-9 June, Barcelona
Developed by:
Eduardo Graells, Yahoo! Research Barcelona,eduardo.graells@gmail.com / @carnby
Luca Chiarandini, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, chiarluc@yahoo-inc.com / @chiarlucDescription
Timebook is an aggregator of information coming from DBPedia, Wikiquote and Europeana concerning personalities of the past (in particular composers, painters, writers or artists in general). It formats the information in the form of a Facebook-like profile in a social network of artists by looking at the influences in each other's works. Applications of the system could be found in education, promotion and exploration of digital libraries. -
Winner in the category "Application with greatest social impact": Casual Curator Hack4Europe! UK, 9 June, London
Developed by Decipher team:
Mike Stapleton, Systems Simulation Ltd, Mike@ssl.co.uk
Mike Selway, Systems Simulation Ltd, mas@ssl.co.uk
Eoin Kilfeather, Dublin Institute of Technology, ekilfeather@dmc.dit.ieDescription
Casual Curator gets semantically improved search results from Europeana to aid personal curation for learning and teaching: easily organise, annotate and share culture via Android touch-screen demonstrator.Prototype:
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Hackathon winner: CultureGlobe
Developed by:
Anja Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin, Ulrike Krabo, Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd. Elaheh Momeni, University of Vienna, Petr Pridel, Klokan Technologies GmbH, Rainer Simon, AITDescription
Hackathon winner CultureGlobe allows users to navigate through Europeana content on an interactive globe and timeline. It accomplishes this by using cutting edge HTML5 and WebGL technology in combination with semantic information from Europeana and Freebase.Prototype:
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2nd Place: Image form Query suggestions
Developed by:
Diego Ceccarelli, ISTI CNR, Hugo Huurdeman, Timeless Future
Description
Building on an analysis of user behaviour this prototype suggest a user with searches related to their intitial query. However, rather than presenting those suggestions as text links it mashes up with Dbpedia and Freebase to identify persons, topics and places and displays those as thumbnails, The user can then click on these thumbnails to navigate further into the Europeana content.Prototype:
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3rd place: Wiki-Europeana browse
Developed by:
Wikipedia MashUp (Team Awesome) Mark Hall, University of Sheffield, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, University of the Basque Country, Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country
Description
The Wikiana prototype combines Wikipedia with the data available in Europeana. The user can copy the URL of their favourite (or any other) Wikipedia page and it will automatically be augmented with images taken from Europeana, that match the page content. This allows the user to discover the data in Europeana using an interface and a context that they are likely to be more familiar with.Prototype:
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