GLAMhack24 – Anniversary Edition

Workshop and Open GLAM Night, Thu, 5 Sept. 2024 @ Neubad, Bireggstrasse 36, Lucerne
Open Cultural Data Hackathon, Fri/Sat, 6 -7 Sept. 2024 ZHB Luzern, Sempacherstrasse 10
Noon breaks & Presentations @ Moderne Bar & Karussell, Pilatusstrasse 21

Two mountaineers, presumably on the Titlis towards the Wenden Glacier. Weber-Strebel, Joseph Maria, 1905.
CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. www.zentralgut.ch. Graphic design: L’équipe visuelle.

The Swiss OpenGLAM working group unites cultural institutions, software developers, digital humanists, artists, Wikipedians, and other enthusiasts with a shared goal of advancing openness among galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM). Within the collaborative environment of the GLAMhack, we engage in joint experimentation, innovation, and artistic creation, exploring the realms of cultural content and digital tools. Our focus spans research initiatives, web and mobile applications, Wikipedia, artistic creations, and a variety of other use cases aimed at fostering openness and creativity.

We started the 2024 dition of the GLAMhack on Thursday, 5 September 2024, at Neubad, with an Afternoon Workshop on GLAM & Digital Humanities. After dinner, we celebrated an Open GLAM Night, which was open to the public. The Hackathon itself took place on Friday/Saturday, 6-7 September 2024, at Moderne Bar & Karussell and Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern (ZHB): Develop concepts, create prototypes, or engage in artistic creation in a co-creative setting, utilizing open cultural data.

Anniversary Edition Theme: “On the Move”

Throughout history, people have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. This has led to encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna. Cultural heritage collections are full of artifacts resulting from and bearing witness to those people “on the move”: archival records, travel reports, audiovisual documents, object collections, oral histories etc. These artifacts weave an invisible web between people and places, between events and stories being told about them, between heritage collections and scholars, and between the people of every generation making sense of them – through artistic creation, through the (de-)construction of collective memories, or by exploiting them in the pursuit of political or economic interests. The thematic focus was intended as a source of inspiration; hackathon participants were free to work on other topics related to cultural heritage.

Hackathon Challenges

All challenges that have been handed in for the 2024 edition of the GLAMhack are documented on our challenges page. You can also find the work that has been done on the different challenges on this page.

Video documentation

The recordings of the final presentations as well as the student works from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), our partner organization for the GLAMhack 2024, can be found here.

New Datasets

For this year’s GLAMHack, some institutions prepared brand new datasets.

Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern

Image material from the ZHB Lucerne Special Collection, 2500+ images which consist to a large extent of descriptions of the regional history of the central Swiss cantons with a focus on the city and canton of Lucerne – Dataset
Journals from Central Switzerland, metadata about journals from Central Switzerland – Dataset
Portrait gallery of curious Lucerne residents, 260 pictures of curious Lucerne residents – Dataset

Bibliothek Zug

Glass plates from the Zug Library, 3500 glass plates with photographs from the Zug region (1850-1960) – Dataset
Zug Television, metadata and videos of 86 TV shows from Zug TV (1981-1986) – Dataset
Postcard collection from the Zug Library, 2000 historical postcards with focus on Zug region (1867-2018) – Dataset

City of Lucerne – Municipal Archives

Bridge images Hofbrücke Lucerne, 239 images from the Hofbrücke paintings – Dataset

Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Swiss National Library

Photoglob-Wehrli Archive (1897-1934), pictures made for postcards (Swiss National Library)

Museum Rietberg

Photographs in the Collection of Museum Rietberg on Wikimedia Commons, e.g. featuring a collection of 359 photographs by Iranian photographer Antoin Sevruguin

Luzern Tourismus AG – Tourist Board

New Open Data Platform by Luzern Tourismus, including a list of museums of the Lake Lucerne region (cantons of LU, NW,OW, SZ, UR).

Selection of Earlier Datasets

Below is a selection of earlier datasets that fit in well with this year’s theme:

Photos by the Swiss photographer, pilot and aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937) (ETH Library)
Inventory of Historical Traffic Routes in Switzerland (Federal Roads Office)
Metadata of PARC – Portal for African Research Collections (Portal for African Research Collections)
Maps of the Swiss post course (1851-1941) (PTT Archive)
Postcards with Swiss “Postauto” (bus for public transportation) (PTT Archive)
Historical Photographs from the Album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ (approx. 1892) (SBB Heritage Foundation)
Photos of Historical Railway Bridges (ca. 1882–1966) (SBB Heritage Foundation)
Aerial Photographs by Eduard Spelterini (Swiss National Library)
Historical Photos «Vues de la suisse» by Adolphe Braun & Cie. (Swiss National Museum)
Representative sample from the Carriages, Sledges, & Vehicles Collection (images and metadata) (Swiss National Museum)
Historical Photos of the Swiss Wandervogel Youth Group Chapter (Swiss Social Archives)
Maps from the collection “Magnificent Atlases” with title cartouches (Zentralbibliothek Zürich)
Early modern travel literature (Zentralbibliothek Zürich)

You may also want to consult our full list of open datasets for further inspiration.

Workshop GLAM & Digital Humanities (Thursday Afternoon)

The Swiss network for the digital humanities DARIAH-CH is setting up a GLAM Working Group. The new working group’s mission is to strengthen the cooperation between the Heritage Sector, the Cultural Sector, Public Administration, and the Digital Humanities in the area of data and data infrastructures.

You can find the documentation of the workshop outputs here.

Open GLAM Night (Thursday Evening)

The Open GLAM Night at Lucerne Neubad was celebrated with contributions from Mexican artists, a deep dive into the past and the future of the GLAMhack, as well as a kaleidoscope of “Openness”, presented by ZHB Luzern.

The first part of the event was live-streamed to one of the cinemas of the Complejo Cultural of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), our Mexican partner organization.

Hackathon Program (Friday & Saturday)

The hackathon took place from Friday morning to Saturday evening at Moderne Bar & Karussell/ZHB Luzern.

Friday, 6th September 2024	Program
08:30 – 09:00	Check-in, Breakfast, Moderne Bar & Karussell
09:00 – 09:25	Opening Session
09:25 – 09:35	GLAMhack24 Informations
09:35 – 10:45	Presentation of Challenges / Idea Pitching (2 minutes per person)
10:45 – 11:15	Group Creation – First Group Meeting
11:15 – 12:15	Team Distribution & Hacking, ZHB
12:30 – 14:00	Noon Break, Moderne Bar & Karussell
14:00 – 17:30	Work in groups, ZHB
17:30 – 18:00	Check-out & intro to Saturday programme, ZHB
18:15-18:45	10 years of GLAMhack celebration, Moderne Bar & Karussell https://www.infoclio.ch/en/glamhack-10-years
18:45 – 20:00	Dinner, Moderne Bar & Karussell
from 20:00 – Open End	Work in groups (“night shift”), ZHB

Saturday, 7th September 2024
08:00	ZHB opens for the public
08:30 – 10:00	Breakfast, ZHB
09:00 – 12:30	Work in groups, ZHB
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch, Moderne Bar & Karussell
Until 15:15	Hacking
15:30 – 17:00	Final Project Presentations, Moderne Bar & Karussell
17:00 – 18:00	Apéro/End
20:00	ZHB closing

Organizers

This event has been organized by the OpenGLAM CH Working Group of the opendata.ch association, with contributions from:

Opendata.ch
	Beat Estermann (Member of the Board; Lead Open GLAM Programme a.i.)
	Oleg Lavrovsky (Technical Support)
	Jonas Lendenmann (Dataset Team)
	Anna Sigrist (Support during and after the event)
	Lionel Walter (Lead Dataset Team)
	Gaston Wey (Support Project Coordination)
ZHB
	Nicole Casty (Head of the Library at Sempacherstrasse, Host Institution)
	Christian Erlinger (Dataset Team, Host Institution)
	Benjamin Flämig (Director, Host Institution)
	Beat Mattmann (Head IT, Host Institution)
	Simone Rosenkranz (Open Science Manager, Host Institution)
	Juliette Wyler (Coordinator, Host Institution)
BUAP
	Sandra Palacios (Coordination CultureFLOW @ BUAP, México)
HSLU
	Birk Weiberg
infoclio.ch
	Enrico Natale (Documentation)
	Jan Baumann (Documentation)
Swiss National Museum
	Pierre-Louis Blanchard (Dataset Team)
Wikimedia CH
	Sandra Becker (Support Programme Team)