Hackathon on the annotation and enrichment of research data in the digital humanities, hosted by the Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities. This event will be organized in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow Prof. Ryan Cordell from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Prof. David Smith from Northeastern University, Boston.

The hackathon will focus on the Viral Text Project, providing participants with an opportunity to explore and enhance this significant research project and will work on the annotation and enrichment of research data in the digital humanities. We invite scholars, researchers, and students in the field of digital humanities to join us for this exciting event.

Topic

Many Digital Humanities projects produce large datasets derived from existing collections, such as the digitized newspapers in the Library of Congress, Internet Archive, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It is not scalable to reingest this derived data into those collections. Many cultural heritage institutions, however, have converged on the International Image Interoperability Framework for providing access to digitized books, images, and other data. IIIF provides facilities to overlay annotations, transcriptions, and other data on top of the original images, audio, and video or to reassemble documents out of fragments in mutliple locations. We propose to build tools to help researchers discover, browse, and search derived data related to IIIF library collections. By creating a tool that overlays research data atop its source collection website, we aim to model how digital humanists might make research data more readily available to scholars, students, and members of the public without the technical expertise required to find and make use of data repositories, free-standing databases, and similar solutions which currently dominate the digital humanities field.

Further information on the program, challenges and opportunities for participation can be found here:
https://www.ada.fu-berlin.de/events/avh-hack/

Interested parties are very welcome! Registration until July 1st, is requested.
https://www.ada.fu-berlin.de/en/events/avh-hack/PM_avh-hack_registration/

Your own challenges are also very welcome. Languages will probably be English and German.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Dennis Mischke.