There is so much going on for Libraryhack. Mashup and hack events for learning, creating and connecting with experts. Check here to find out about events in April and May 2011 or search for events by location in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. More events will be added as they are finalised. Watch this space!
April
Hack and mash – photo mashups
If you are interested in entering Libraryhack or learning more about creating your own digital collage this session is for you. Using GIMP you will be shown how to create your own photo mash up.
When: Wed 20 Apr, 10am – 12:30pm
Where: State Library of Queensland, The Edge
Tickets: Free, bookings required
Bookings: qtix 136 246 or at The Library Shop
Prerequisites: Intermediate Computer Skills
Hack and mash – library mash
This session is for advanced computer users. In this session you will learn how to create a simple mashup using freely available library data. Come along and challenge yourself and maybe create an entry for Libraryhack.
When: tbc
Where: State Library of Queensland, The Edge
Tickets: Free, bookings required
Bookings: qtix 136 246 or at The Library Shop
Prerequisites: Advanced Computer Skills
Day of ‘hack’
Join us for a day of hacking. We’ll have mashing experts and specialists from the Australian Web Industry Association on hand to help you navigate your way through the wealth of info released for mashups, and to encourage re-mixing and re-purposing ideas for the Libraryhack .
When: Sunday 10 April, 11 am -4pm
Where: The Discovery Lounge, State Library of Western Australia
Tickets: Free, bookings required
Bookings: http://slwa.wa.gov.au/whats_on/hackday.
Libraryhack: It’s time to let the data loose
Edge Catalyst Colleen Morgan will present a host of fabulous data visualisations and mash-ups to get you excited and inspired for the Libraryhack competition. Data visualisations are a way of making complex data sets meaningful. They can be beautiful, insightful, informative, entertaining, digital or physical and can reveal relationships you may never have thought of… for example, that most Facebook breakups happen just before the weekend! Colleen will also highlight the data sets made available by the State Library of Queensland and we will throw around some data visualisation ideas towards the end. Here are some resources to whet your data whistle: http://infosthetics.com/ and http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
When: Thursday April 14, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Where: State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 2
Tickets: Free, bookings required
Bookings : email book.it@edgeqld.org.au
May
Mashup at the Mitchell
Developers, designers, information visualisation experts and other creative types will be given free reign to re-mix and repurpose amazing cultural content, as part of Libraryhack, a national mashup and apps competition being held from 1 to 31 May 2011. Participants will have access to thousands of collection items and datasets released from the National and state libraries of Australia and New Zealand. Collections experts and curators from the State Library of NSW will be on hand to provide amazing insight to its digitised collections, including its unrivalled First Fleet collection; pre 1885 photographs of Sydney; 3,500 photographs of goldfield towns in NSW and Victoria (Holtermann collection); early survey maps of Sydney; and much more. All participants on the day will be encouraged to enter their prototype applications and concepts into Libraryhack. This event is presented by the State Library of NSW in collaboration with Web Directions.
When: Sat 7 May, 8.30am – 6.30pm
Where: Mitchell Building, State Library of NSW
Tickets: Free
Bookings: Bookings
Libraryhack Animation – HackinMotion
Learn how to give collage a digital twist, with animator Mariana Shek. If you like taking photos, videos, words, sound and music and mixing them together to create a whole new meaning, this animation workshop is a must.
This two-hour workshop will give you basic skills in Photoshop to manipulate old photographs. Then take these images into AfterEffects and learn how to composite and animate in cut-out style. Draw on library resources-photo archives, newspapers, video footage, audio or bring along your own images and data sets.
When: 2.00-4.30pm, Saturday May 7, 2011
Where: The Edge, Lab 1
Tickets: Free
Bookings: book.it@edgeqld.org.au
HackinMotion 2
When: 5.30-7.30pm, Tuesday May 17, 2011
Where: The Edge
Tickets: Free
Bookings: book.it@edgeqld.org.au
In this second HackinMotion workshop, people who have completed HackinMotion 1 can work on more sophisticated animations. But those who missed the first workshop will still be able to learn the basics.
Do the photo mash
The State Library of Queensland has opened its photo collection to give you a chance to make something new for Libraryhack. Copyright for these photographs has expired, so you are free to hack and mash them to your heart’s content. This is an exciting opportunity for Queenslanders to have a voice, reinterpret history, say something social, political or just funny! The opportunities are endless, it’s really up to you. Learn how to mash-up historic photographs from Picture Queensland with your own personal photos, or other freely available images found on the internet.
When: 5.30pm-7.30pm, Thursday May 5 OR 5.30pm-7.30pm, Thursday May 12, 2011
Where: The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Tickets: Free
Bookings: Bookings required book.it@edgeqld.org.au
Hack to the future!
Your challenge is to take any number of vintage Queensland songs, superbly preserved as scores by the state library here, and hack them into the 21st century. To kickstart the creation, our resident sound Catalyst Andrei Maberley has taken the digitised scores and turned 20 of them into MIDI files. In this workshop we’ll throw these files into anything that fits in on the Lab 1 computers including Ableton Live, Logic and Garageband. All these scores are out of copyright, so if you think you can take “The Bundaberg Vocal One Step” and turn it into a gritty urban masterpiece, then sign up.
When: Sun 8 May, 1 – 3 pm
Where: The Edge Lab 1, State Library of Queensland
Tickets: Free
Bookings: Bookings required book.it@edgeqld.org.au
Libraryhack at State Library of Victoria
Have you ever made a mashup? Now’s your chance to get involved and create a mashup or app of your own, or collaborate with another creator. Get your hands on library collection content and data and remix it to create a new application, image, digital story or other new content – and enter it in the Libraryhack competition!
When: Fri 20 – Sat 21 May, 10.30am – 5.30pm
Where: State Library of Victoria, Experimedia.
Tickets: Free, bookings required
Bookings: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/libraryhack
