{"id":22812,"date":"2019-05-28T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2019-05-28T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:23:20","slug":"scotlands-first-heritage-and-history-hackathon-30-may-to-2-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22812","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s First Heritage and History Hackathon: 30 May to 2 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22813 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HES_hackathon_280519.png\" alt=\"computer image\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/>Join Historic Environment Scotland (HES) for Scotland\u2019s first ever heritage and history hackathon \u2013 where entrepreneurs, designers and technologists will spend 75 hours exploring Scotland\u2019s heritage through data and technology.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: HES<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HES writes:<\/p>\n<p>From 30 May to 2 June, we\u2019re partnering up with Product Forge and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) to deliver Scotland\u2019s first ever heritage and history hackathon. Interest in Scotland\u2019s history and heritage continues to grow, and our country\u2019s reputation as a hotbed of digital innovation is also going from strength to strength. Our story goes a long way back, and advances in technology mean we can continue to take it further forward into an exciting future. We\u2019re looking to combine the vast expertise from Scotland\u2019s heritage sector with the burgeoning talents at the cutting-edge of our tech industry. However, we need your help too!<\/p>\n<p>A hackathon brings together students, entrepreneurs, and members of the tech community \u2013 such as developers, designers, and data scientists \u2013 to develop innovative digital products that solve problems for particular sectors. In the past, Edinburgh-based Product Forge have run hackathon events for the likes of Scotland\u2019s tourism, transport and health sectors. This time, it\u2019s all about finding solutions for the problems we face in the heritage sector. At this event \u2013 taking place at Codebase in Stirling \u2013 participants form teams, before working together over the course of four days to propose and develop new digital solutions. There\u2019s a competitive element too \u2013 but the main focus is on creative collaboration, sharing experiences, and having a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>It all starts on the Thursday evening. You\u2019ll meet up, get to know each other, and fuel ideas with a bite to eat. It\u2019s then down to business, and team formations begin! Regardless of your background, you\u2019ll have something to contribute. This is your opportunity to find collaborators with skills that complement your own! The idea here is to find yourself a well-rounded team. The next step is all about choosing a problem to solve. Some participants will arrive with a problem they\u2019re looking to have solved, others will need to do a bit of digging at the start to find one! Teams then validate their thinking, and test their assumptions. This is the research stage, and can involve anything from cold-calling, through to examining data-sets. Organisations within the sector \u2013 like us! \u2013 will be contributing a variety of data-sets for teams to get stuck into.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/blog.historicenvironment.scot\/2019\/05\/heritage-history-hackathon\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Historic Environment Scotland (HES) for Scotland\u2019s first ever heritage and history hackathon \u2013 where entrepreneurs, designers and technologists will spend 75 hours exploring Scotland\u2019s heritage through data and technology. image: HES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22840,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions\/22840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}