Dublin Hacks and Hackers Hack Day
Hacks and Hackers Hack Day (what a name!) is an event organised by ScraperWiki. It appears to be aimed at connecting journalists (hacks) with programmers (hackers) over the course of a (hack) day, to help them to harvest or analyse public data, and from that, form the basis of potential news stories.
This is an interesting concept, and one that tries to get around the scarcity of linked open data by scraping the data from existing web sources (hence the ScraperWiki moniker).
As part of their tour, ScraperWiki is organising a Dublin Hacks and Hackers Hack Day, to be held on Tuesday, November 16, as part of the Innovation Dublin festival.
Unfortunately, the HHH day clashes with the SFI Science Summit, so I don’t think that I’ll be able to make it, but it definitely looks like an interesting exercise.
Via SocialMedia.net, which has a much more in-depth article on it.