The home repository for CTC20: History and Culture, which was the weekend of 1-2, August 2020. This follows on from CTC19: History + Data = Innovation which was our first online co-design and hack event over the weekend of 11/12 April 2020.
On Saturday, 1 August, we had 21 participants working on six challenges. On Sunday, 2 August, we had 16 participants working on four challenges as the team looking at the convict register didn't return. The work focused on moving data into WikiData, as well as how to make visualisations of some of the assembled data.
- Register of Returned Convicts of Aberdeen (1869-1939)
- Mesolithic Deeside focused on making their mesolithic finds plotted on a map for their website and you can see the resulting page too showing the location of finds.
- Mapping Memorials to Women which can be seen on Wikishootme where the red dots are items that need photos.
- Aberdeen Harbour Arrivals building on the work from CTC19 and the historical harbour arrivals api to make the information accessible. Another member of the team also produced maps and charts using Power BI.
- Aberdeen Built Ships building on the work from CTC19 Aberdeen Built Ships repository.
- Aberdeenshire Settlements focused on adding and updating information in Wikimedia Commons for all of the Aberdeenshire settlements. You can see the progress of their work in Wikishootme!
We collected the details of the event in Wikipedia and you can see the overall number of new entries and edits on the Wikipedia Event Dashboard
We used Zoom session to hold the space and alternated between main room where everyone should be together, and breakout rooms for group work in 90 minutes blocks of time. We then came back together to check in on how teams were getting on, and to share information and offers of help.
We will also use Slack and our Code the City workgroup as the back channel between rooms, and to coordinate the event outside of Zoom. This worked well in the run-up to the event, and also as the jumping off point for each day.