Date

Thursday, February 5, 2015, Helsinki

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Thursday February 5, 9.30 am to 4.30 pm.

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Program

9.00 Coffee

9.30 Working together

• Welcome Susanna Ånäs Wikimedia Suomi ry
• Historical Aleksanterinkatu and Helsinki bombardments of WWII Martti Helminen, City of Helsinki.
• Historical aerial images from the metropolitan area Arend Oudman.
• Introduction by Lars Lundqvist, Riksantikvarieämbetet, Sweden
• Showcase of GLAM* projects with Wikimedia from Finland (Sanna Hirvonen), Sweden (André Costa) and Estonia (Joonas Loide).

11.15 Case studies

• Helsinkiennen.fi, Juuso Lehtinen, Apps4Finland winner 2014
• Use of Augmented Reality for presenting historical environments, Timo Korkalainen, Technology Research Center, University of Turku
• Ajapaik/Timepatch – gamified crowdsourcing of geotags for historic photographs, Vahur Puik, Estonia, Europeana Open Innovation Challenges winner
• Keynote Peter Neubauer, Mapillary, Sweden

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Maps hackathons & other innovations

• Keynote NYPL Labs: what we’ve learned in 3 years Mauricio Giraldo, New York Public Library Labs
• Discussion Cultural hackathons #Hack4DK (Jacob Wang, Nationalmuseet, Denmark), #Hack4NO and #Hack4FI (Sanna Marttila, AvoinGLAM).

14.30 Coffee

15.00 DIY history

• Discussion Platforms and projects for citizen historians Sanna Jokela, Lounaispaikka; Kaisa Kyläkoski, Sukututkijan loppuvuosi; Kimmo Lehtonen, Albumit Auki!, Lasipalatsin Mediakeskus; Pauliina Latvala, University of Turku and Lars Lundqvist, Riksantikvarieämbetet.
• Presentation Maptime – a worldwide open learning environment for mapmakers Bert Spaan, Waag Society, Netherlands

* GLAM = Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.

Language

The language of the seminar is English. The hackathon will be bilingual: Finnish and English

Register

Please register for the seminar and/or the hackathon in advance!

Social media

Twitter and Instagram hashtag #wikilovesmaps

Presentations

All materials from the seminar will be posted in the Lanyrd pages of the event and Wikimedia Commons.