Hack4Europe! Sweden, 10-11 June 2011, Stockholm

• TimeMash
  Finalist at the Digital Agenda Assembly, June 2011, Brussels

  

  Developed by
  Martin Duveborg, Swedish National Heritage Board
  martin.duveborg(at)raa.se / @duveborg
  Jonas Bolin, Swedish National Heritage Board
  jonas.bolin(at)raa.se / @avelone_com

  Description
  TimeMash is a search client for historical data from Europeana. It allows users to search both in map and list form, to filter theirs search and to look for interesting objects in the immediate vicinity (guided by the user's GPS). It simplifies the process of seeking out and connecting to history when on location. Through the app, you can also capture a new image to complement the old. The camera puts the old, original, as a thin overlay in the viewfinder and you can easily fade in and out to ensure that you get as similar picture as possible. The result can then be shared with the world by uploading it to the TimeMash server. While uploading the new picture, you can also contribute and refine your geo-location, refining it, so that more people can find the same location, admire it and contribute their own images.

  Prototype:
  TimeMash (apk file)

• Europeana Fancy Search

  

  Developed by
  Mark Lindeman and Mark van Duijker

  Description
  Fancy Search is a Europeana Search API component prototype for Joomla 1.6. It complements the Joomla CMS component developed by the same team at the Hilversum hackathon with a Who?What?When?Where? search, mashed up with Freebase and Geonames, interactive maps, a timeline and a visual display of results on a slideshow. Related searches can be performed on any Europeana metadata values. The code is Open Source and ready to be used immediately.

  Prototype:
  Fancy Search - Youtube video

• MuseumVille

  

  Developed
  Emil Stenström (@emilstenstrom), Jens Tinfors (@jensa), Jonas Beckman (@jonasbeckman), Niklas Lindström (@niklasl), Tomas Seo (@seoism)

  Description
  This prototype has been inspired by the addictive Facebook game Farmville. It is a curation app and game which allows users to build, share and compare their own museums created by selecting content from Europeana. The demo has attractive graphic design and a user interface adapted for touch screens, especially tablets (works on both iPad and Android tablets).

  Prototype:
  MuseumVille - Youtube video
  MuseumVille - SlideShare
  MuseumVille - the code

• Europeana on Free Image Search Tool

  

  Developed
  Johan Jönsson (@WikimediaSE)

  Description
  The prototype is a further development of the Free Image Search Tool (FIST), a tool to help illustrate articles on Wikipedia. FIST can be used to find images by searching in article categories or lists of articles. It compares the name of the article (all articles in the category/categories/list, articles with no images, or with less than x images) with free pictures in e.g. Wikimedia Commons or Flickr, and then links the findings to a simple upload tool. In this way, users will be able to illustrate a whole article category with one search, instead of having to search individually for each article. The prototype allows images from Europeana collections to be used in Wikipedia articles.

  Prototype:
  Free Image Search Tool

• Europeana Portfolio

  

  Developed by
  Hannes Ebner (@electricbum) and Mathias Palmér

  Description
  The prototype is based on a combination of SCAM framework (EntryStore) and Confolio (EntryScape) and allows the creation of online learning resources using Europeana metadata. The users can search in the Europeana collections via a Confolio interface and add metadata from the individual search result to their online portfolio for further annotation with educational metadata.

  Prototype:
  Europeana Portfolio - blog post

• myHometo.wn

  

  Developed by
  Pelle Sten (@inuse_swe, @inuse_tipsar)

  Description
  myHometo.wn can be likened to a public genealogy for all cities across a country. This particular prototype showcases how people can add their personal stories to an ever-growing online story about Sweden and its cities. It is a high-potential crowd-sourcing tool for European cultural institutions.