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Yahoo! Open Hack Europe 6 May 2011 | 08:47 pm
There's going to be some History Hacking going on at Yahoo!'s Open Hack Europe in Bucharest over the weekend of 14-15 May. I'll be attending and giving a little History Hacking pep talk before spendi...
The hacks! 18 Feb 2011 | 03:30 am
It gives me great pleasure to present these, the Compleat Hacks from History Hack Day 2011. I've given URLs where I have them, and I'll happily add links to the hacks (and links to blog posts &c. abou...
A brief recap of the event; Some thanks and acknowledgements 13 Feb 2011 | 02:22 am
Well, this has taken me a while. It's been a crazy three weeks since History Hack Day, and I thought it was high time I actually started talking about how well it went and what fantastic stuff people ...
Last minute administrivia 22 Jan 2011 | 04:12 am
Possibly important things: If you want to play Werewolf on Saturday evening, someone should bring a deck of Werewolf cards. If you want to play other games on Saturday evening, you should bring othe...
Help! (a call for volunteers) 20 Jan 2011 | 01:53 am
With the weekend fast approaching it's clear that we're going to need a hand (or two) to keep everything rolling. We need three or four volunteers to help registration run smoothly, help make the vas...
Portable Antiquities 19 Jan 2011 | 10:33 pm
This is a guest post from Dan Pett of the Portable Antiquities Scheme About 3 months ago, Matt contacted the Portable Antiquities Scheme via Twitter, to ask if we wanted to be involved in his History...
Writing things down (an announcement) 18 Jan 2011 | 07:19 am
Given the subject matter, it seems appropriate that there be someone at History Hack Day whose job it is to document the event. That person is going to be Steve Lawson, from Amplified (and elsewhere)....
Less than a week to go! 17 Jan 2011 | 11:23 am
There's less than a week to go before we throw open the doors on History Hack Day. If you're coming, hurrah! I have some administrivia coming up for you shortly :-) If you're thinking of coming, I hav...
Sponsor History Hack Day! 13 Jan 2011 | 01:08 am
If you've been looking at the Wiki then you'll have seen that we're filling up fast with people; datasets, APIs, and ideas are being added all the time. I'm beginning to get really excited about what ...
All kinds of history 17 Dec 2010 | 12:15 pm
There are a whole set of problems when it comes to working with historical data, and the first hurdle is actually getting something which was written down, or printed, on paper into a machine-readable...
