Name: DPLA Hands-on Cultural Heritage Hackathon
Start: 2016-04-15T09:30:00-0400
End: 2016-04-15T14:00:00-0400

Taking place in the heart of Washington, DC, DPLAfest 2016 (April 14-15) will bring together hundreds from DPLA’s large and growing community for interactive workshops, hackathons and other collaborative activities, engaging discussions with community leaders and practitioners, fun events, and more. DPLAfest 2016 will appeal to anyone interested in libraries, technology, ebooks, education, creative reuse of cultural materials, law, open access, and genealogy/family research.

Area institutions serving as co-hosts include the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.

To view photographs, recordings, and social media from DPLAfest 2016, visit https://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2016/media/.

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DPLA Hands-on Cultural Heritage Hackathon

Links to notes, resources, and schedule: http://bit.ly/dplafest2016-hackathon

This hackathon session is intended for informal collaboration, with a very brief introductory information about the DPLA API and logistics related to the hackathon. For an in-depth introduction to DPLA's API, as well as those for other cultural heritage data sources, please join the hackathon session on Wednesday afternoon.

Speakers

Audrey Altman

Developer, Digital Public Library of America

Audrey Altman is a Developer for DPLA. She works with the DPLA Technology Team to design, develop, test, integrate, support, and document user-facing applications and back-end systems; support content management policies, process, and workflows, and contribute to the development... Read More →