Expert outreach/National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales/History Hackathon 2020
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The History Hackathon will be a hack day which focuses on reusing historical data about Wales and its people from the National Library of Wales. This will include 1000's of biographical records, digital images, shipping records, OCR data and much more.
Hacking can include programming, data visualisation, gamification, creative and artistic reuse and much more!
It is a free event, with free lunch and goody bags for all those who attend!
Data available now
Here are links to some of the data sets available for hacking.
- Datasets on Wikidata
- Probate records CSV
- Aberystwyth Shipping Records CSV - Records of 19th century merchant ships and their crew, including details of journeys made. This data would be great for making interesting visualsations..like this one
- Basic data for Welsh Biography CSV, JSON, HTML
- Detailed data for the Welsh Biography CSV, JSON, HTML
- IIIF manisfests for NLW images on Wikidata CSV, JSON, HTML
- Welsh WWI Book of remembrance data JSON - Welsh Book of Remembrance List of 35,000 men and women from Wales who lost their lives in WWI
- Cardiganshire War tribunals data JSON - Cardiganshire War tribunals Records of appeals against enforced inscription into the army during WWI for the county of Cardiganshire. These include personal information, earnings, tribunal decisions ect.
- Welsh Crime and punishment databass CSV, JSON
- Supplementary Aberystwyth Shipping records data (Journeys taken) JSON
Data available on the day
For the first time, we are giving full access to the full text of 16 million pages of historical Welsh newspapers via an API.
The output of one of Wales largest crowd sourcing projects the API will give access to nearly a million records of place names, tennants and landowners.
In adition to the Wikidata above we will have an API to help create dynamic recources using data about important Welsh people.
- IIIF Images
We will deomstrate how to use our APIs to call digital images from our archive along with the relevent data.
Outcomes
- Analysis of Aberystwyth Shipping Records (report)
- [https://github.com/S571736/HackathonHanes Analysis of Aberystwyth Shipping Records (Github code)
- Learning Welsh in a Welsh Lady Costume (GM)
- 3D effect on NLW artwork (Illtud)
- extracted faces of people in Welsh newspapers (Mike)
- Welsh horses hacked series by Nicky Arscott
- Linking Tribunal, newspapers and book of remembrance data (Illtud)
- Extracting Scientists from Welsh newspaper data
- Annotating fields in tithe map data (GR)
Wikidata Tools
Other useful tools
- Google Data Studio
- http://workbenchdata.com/ - for refining data.
- Raw Graphs - Data vis