GLAM Hack Philly, a hackathon for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums, is almost here. It will take place on the weekend of February 1-2 at Kislak Center for Special Collections in University of Pennsylvania Library . More info at http://glamhack.com

Attending the hackathon is free and we welcome all skill levels and abilities.

Register Now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/glam-hack-philly-2014-tickets-9857405766

Several exciting challenges have already been submitted:

• DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) wants help improving the accuracy of geocoding the diverse and heterogeneous data it ingests from libraries, archives and museums from all over the country. http://glamhack.com/submitted-challenges/dpla/

• The British Museum’s Linked Open dataset, which contains 2 million objects and 177 million relations, is ripe for visualization, as well as exploring attempts at disambiguation. http://glamhack.com/submitted-challenges/linked-open-data-british-museum-collection/

• A Danish manuscript research project “The fornaldarsögur norðurlanda (literally ‘ancient sagas of the northern lands’, but often referred to in English as ‘mythical-heroic’ or ‘legendary’ sagas) has a large collection of manuscript images, transcriptions, and metadata and want you to help them build something cool with it. http://glamhack.com/submitted-challenges/fornaldarsogur-nordurlanda/

• In partnership with the Department of Making and Doing, work will be done to convert data visualizations and maps into tactile objects (via laser cutting) for use by people with visual impairments. http://glamhack.com/submitted-challenges/fabrication-maps-data-visualization-accessibility/

• Longwood Gardens has a unique collection of Wild Boxwood, and has data on where they were collected in the Caucus Region and Eastern Europe, and images of those plants that they would love to see plotted and mapped. http://glamhack.com/submitted-challenges/longwood-gardens-wild-boxwood-collection/

There is still time to submit a challenge. If you are interested, feel free to email us at glamhackphilly@gmail.com

There will also be a chance to anyone to pitch an idea for a project at the start of the hackathon, so even if your great idea only hits you the night before the hackathon, you will still have a chance to work on it!