2018-11-30: Archives Unleashed: Vancouver Datathon Trip Report
The Archives Unleashed Datathon #Vancouver was a two day event from November 1 to November 2, 2018 hosted by the Archives Unleashed team in collaboration with Simon Fraser University Librar y and Key , SFU's big data initiative. This was second in a series of Archives Unleashed datathons to be funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation . This is the first time for me, Mohammed Nauman Siddique of the Web Science and Digital Libraries research group ( WS-DL ) at Old Dominion University to travel to the datathon at Vancouver. Day 1 An appropriately rainy Vancouver mornings to set up #hackarchives SFU. Badges ready, WiFi waiting, coffee’s on... pic.twitter.com/Vf2L1IDjfS — Ian Milligan (@ianmilligan1) November 1, 2018 The event kicked off with Ian Milligan welcoming all the participants at the Archives Unleashed Datathon #Vancouver. It was followed by welcome speech from Gwen Bird , University Librarian at SFU and Pe...