NICAR/Newseum News Apps Archiving Designathon
With news nerds from around the country visiting Baltimore for NICAR, we thought it'd be a great chance to gather folks for some hands-on work after the conference. The Newseum in DC was kind enough to offer to host this event.
Our goal is to create an end-to-end approach for archiving data journalism projects. This day will serve as a planning day for a fuller hackathon at the Newseum in March 2014. Before the event: contribute ideas of projects to archive and archival technology to explore. At the event: Split into groups to further assess projects and tech. End goal: identify three projects or design challenges to focus on.
This event is co-sponsored by Knight-Mozilla OpenNews @opennews, the Newseum (@newseum), and Pop Up Archive (@popuparchive).
Logistics
- Where: Newseum 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 USA
- When: 10am - 5pm Sunday, March 2
- Will there be food? Yes, there will be food.
- What to bring You will need to bring your own laptop and power supply. Also, bring any ideas about news apps to archive or archiving technology tips.
- We'll supply the WiFi, the plugs, and collaboration and brainstorming materials like post-its, sharpies, etc.
Project needs/wants
In advance of this planning day, we're brainstorming some project needs and questions to tackle during the event.
- What are some news apps you'd like to see archived? Can you send us the relevant background and files before the event?
- Some example projects:
- ONA winners
- HomicideWatch
- Some example projects:
- What are some topics we could brainstorm on for the day?
- Pick a design/architecture challenge and have small groups work through different approaches (i.e. preserve a site for 5, 25, 50 years)
- Pick three representative projects (i.e. easy, medium, hard) and actually start archiving them at designathon w/ ample documentation
- "How would experts solve this problem" + "Here are some things anyone can do"
- What role can the Internet Archive play?
- Who do we want to invite/make sure is in the room?
Schedule
Sunday 3/2
- 10am Opening Circle and team formation
- 11am Work begins
- 1pm Lunch
- 4:30pm Close, plan next steps
Two days for building
- Details to come
Communications
Want to get in touch with other hack day participants?
- Join the #opennews channel on irc.mozilla.org
- Tweet questions/ideas with #apparchive hashtag. Tag @opennews with any questions about the event
- Email OpenNews if there are any questions/concerns/ideas that should be emailed to the group on off hours.
Tools & APIs
Have tools or APIs that would be helpful for this news app archiving? List them here.
Your Blogs
If you're blogging about the event, please link to it here.