The Hacks

Below are details and links to all of the hacks produced during Culture Hack North: Leeds 2011

Hack name: Whitworth’s Landscape Paintings Mapped
Team name: Tims Special Tactics
Hack description: Given a plain CSV just listing the title of a painting, we are able to geo-locate and then map these paintings. We can see where the landscape was painted. Users can click on the map icons and see the map, and optionally, see three good Flickr photos of landscape taken within a couple of miles of the area, to see if the photographic choices people make are the same as the painter did.
Data sources used: Whitworth art gallery csv thumbnail images, Yahoo Placemaker API, Flickr API
Hack url: http://whitworth.geothings.net/
Code: https://github.com/timwaters/whitworth-landscapes
Team members: Tim Waters

Hack name: Film Finder
Team name: Film Finder
Hack description: To be used on either a computer with a large monitor or touch screen on the entry to Cornerhouse, it allows the visitor to see film listings under different categories. It only shows film listing on either the day or in the future. Please note, not all data been used, only a random dip sample of a few rows due to having to cleanup data. *To be used full screen, tested in Firefox*
Data sources used: Cornerhouse Film Data
Hack url: http://martincunningham.me.uk/demo/filmfinder/
Team members: Martin Cunningham

Hack name: Name That Train
Team name: Mini Spotters Anonymous
Hack description: A small train game where users have to work out the name of a train at York railway museum by a very small picture.
Data sources used: NRM dataset
Hack url: N/A
Team members: Heather Burke, Alistair Macdonald

Hack name: Trains Near Me
Team name: Mini Spotters Anonymous
Hack description: An app that uses the NRM roiling stock location list available from the NRM web site and links it with the NMSI database. You load the app on your phone and it will list the trains that are closest to you anywhere in the world. You can click through to read all the available information and then click through to find out where they actually are. (It’s a but like wildlife near me, but with trains)
Data sources used: NRM (ie NMSI) database supplied. NRM Shared Google docs spreadsheet linked to from NRM web site.
Hack url: http://www.agm.me.uk/trainsnearme/
Team members: Heather Burke, Alistair Macdonald

Hack name: smooth operettas
Team name: Reblogging the LOLs
Hack description: Visualise the connection between cast, crew and operas via a jquery graph api. Warning: dont run on a crappy machine, it will crash
Data sources used: Opera north
Hack url: http://chn-opera.twade.co.uk
Team members: Jonny Sedman, Tom Wade

Hack name: Colour Tone
Team name: Reblogging the LOLs
Hack description: Turn a picture into music using the colour values of each line of pixels
Data sources used: Whitworth art gallery images, Manchester museum images.
Hack url: chn-music.twade.co.uk
Team members: Jonny Sedman, Tom Wade

Hack name: Round the corner
Team name: Reblogging the LOLs
Hack description: Get reviews, trailers and a description of films shown at the Cornerhouse.
Data sources used: Cornerhouse
Hack url: chn-corner.twade.co.uk
Team members: Jonny Sedman, Tom Wade

Hack name: InformedApp
Team name: WANT
Hack description: Emergency Opinion Generator / Converstation Starter. Picture the scene, You are on a date, and suddenly “So, Whats your opinion on Mario Merz latest exibition at the Henry Moore?” Arrrgh!!! Fear not, my uncultured friend! “I like the way Merz discarded abstract expressionism’s subjectivity in favor of opening art to exterior space” You Reply! Back of the net! On it like a car Bonnet! Also, “Start me a convo” and “Change the subject!!!!!!”
Data sources used: Can be loaded with any datasource for converstation starters. Simple as Name and Description
Hack url: www.informedapp.com
Team members: Mick Adams, James Hitchcock, Carolyn Jones

Hack name: SHared History – Common Culture
Team name: BasementHacks
Hack description: I’m interested in the way that we can all contribute to cultural data sets. Personnal experience and group knowledge can inform and expand the existing data pool. As data consumers we need to engage in an process which enhances cultural delivery through the contribution of the individual. I have sought to develop a simple platform for sharing cultural data in way that invites participation and is can be developed through contribution. These have included a blog, MediaWiki and GoogleMaps. The Blog and the MediaWiki display cultural data in a form which allows contribution through comments and group participation. The wiki allows editing ang and enhancement through group participation. The GoogleMap KML is an attempt to bring context to cultural data through personal experience. This is displayed as a virtual pub crawl in which I document pubs I have drank in with links to historical images drawn from Leodis via the CultureGrid API.
Data sources used: CultureGrid API
Hack url: http://chn11.blogspot.com/, http://wiki.libtrad.eu/index.php?title=10_Toilets_in_Leeds, http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fwiki.libtrad.eu%2Fkml%2FLeedsPubs.kml
Code: http://cgxslt.googlecode.com/svn/xsl/wiki/wiki_format.xsl
Team members: Mike Hirst

Hack name: Consider The Library
Team name: Bibliophiliacs
Hack description: A gentle reminder that books available online are often available from the library…
Data sources used: Talis Prism
Hack url: http://considerthelibrary.co.uk
Team members: Jonathan Powell and Alex Wolf

Hack name: KhaKauRe
Team name: KhaKauRe
Hack description: Like wikipedia, but with a graph. And bettererer.
Data sources used: All of them (ish)
Hack url: http://khakaure.oodavid.com/
Code: http://github.com/oodavid/khakaure
Team members: David King, John Tate, Joe Woodhead (part time)